Browser Extensions Standard
Hm, if web extensions become a standard, are they really even extensions? Isn't that just new web APIs with tweaked security parameters?<p>This is great for security and all, but browser extensions were borne out of the idea that you wanted your browser to do things that the browser vendor didn't want, or didn't even conceive of.<p>Having it be a standard adds security but strictly limits extensions to things the browser vendors explicitly did conceive of, and stamped their approval on -- sometimes literally, if you're going through a curated store. Is that a net win? I'm not sure.