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I'm using 3-5 extensions (trying to have a few as possible) and I'm not going to use one for such a basic feature.
amnesia I'd like to know more about why this feature that's easy to implement as an extension shouldn't be. Is it just a principled thing, like that the browser should do as much as it can natively? (Which also has counter-arguments that a browser should be as simple as possible.) Or is it because of fears of performance penalties? Personally, I find it very helpful that we now have access to the Chrome extension store since there are lots of features that can be implemented as extensions now instead of having to wait for us to get around to building them in natively.
I'm using extensions to "integrate" other services to the browser (something like 1Password or raindrop.io), not to add basic functions or improve/add behavior that should have been there from the start.
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I see it as a potential security problem and/or privacy leak (because of the required permissions/data access). Plus, I don't like how this extension works.
amnesia makes sense, we've gotten quite a lot of feedback about the trustworthiness of extensions. In fact, that's one of the main reasons we're creating our own extension store instead of just exclusively using Google's. Anything that's in our store has been vetted by us for a base level of security and trustworthiness, and we hope to import a substantial portion of the existing extensions from Chrome's store into ours in the future (assuming they pass our vetting process).
And I guess if you also have a particular problem with the way that extension functions, there are others you can try, although they most likely will operate similarly since there's no way for an extension to stop the last tab from closing and thus also taking down the window except by making sure it's actually not ever the last tab in the window (for example, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/live-on/oficfgdfeoknbjfhommlpiekdapmnebh/, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keep-one-pinned-tab/nmcefdbkkkjndgafnlaikloffhdeknod).
josh_bodner I feel like we're going in circles. Again, I will not use an extension from Google's store to add some basic functionality to a modern browser.
- Google doesn't own those extensions though, so the name "Google" is irrelevant here.
each extension developer owns the extension they make. the developers can put their extensions on various places, Google extension store, Microsoft Add-on store, Windows store, Opera add-on store etc.
the point is, Edge is now using Chromium, which is the best platform right now in terms of extension development and extension availability. so why not use that potential.
- That's really great to know. I think in the future Microsoft Edge extension store will be the most secure/trustworthy one, after that is Firefox and then is Chrome and others in 4th 5th place etc...
