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I always thought Google had a browser for the masses in mind with Chrome. Something that is easy to use, stable and fast: a good alternative for IE. User scrip
by DXL 17y ago
I always thought Google had a browser for the masses in mind with Chrome. Something that is easy to use, stable and fast: a good alternative for IE.
User scripts are something for power users, who will always prefer Firefox. Won't this create the risk that average users will accept installing all kinds of scripts without much regard for security implications? User scripts are a powerful yet low-threshold tool which could easily lend itself to purposes such as identity theft.
- pyre 17y agoI'm a power user, but I use Chrome. I only fire up Firefox when I want to do something on a page that requires a Firefox extension (like HttpFox or MAFF). [edit] I would almost appreciate a Chrome/Chromium extension that adds a 'open this page in X browser' option so that I can open it in Firefox when I need to without needing to copy over the URL manually.
- bretthoerner 17y ago> power users, who will always prefer Firefox Why do you say that? Chrome has extension support, I'm not sure what unique feature Firefox will have left shortly.
- technomancy 17y agoChrome extensions are OK, but they're severely limited compared to what you can pull off with FF extensions: http://conkeror.org http://conkeror.org used to be implemented using only the FF extension mechanism. Chromium extensions cannot alter built-in UI elements, so you're stuck with the standard WIMP UI. It's the only thing keeping me on the Gecko platform.
- elblanco 17y agoOut of curiosity, would this prevent a chrome equivalent of the SQLite manager?
- sid0 17y agoSane mouse wheel scrolling, by the looks of it.
- DXL 17y agoYou're right, I totally missed that announcement. That pretty much invalidates my whole point, sorry.