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I love this.

It has been possible to use extensions on Android, but keeping them loaded on Android after OOM reclamation has been a pain up until now.

I wrote up a hack where I push Android Firefox extensions over Wireguard and OCR.

https://blog.plzat.me/2023-05-23-android-in-wireguardland-pu...

Hopefully this is the end of the need for this kind of hack. I love Firefox on all my platforms and having extensions on Android makes it even better.


Hmmm... I'm surprised I'm not seeing anyone else question the validity of this taking "2 hours" Given that it's written on the blog for the product it's using, this reads to me a lot like a pure sales pitch. They want us to believe if you use Patterns (which is neat), your company will be much more cost-effective.

I'm not saying that's bad - that's probably the right thing to do with their company blog, and it's cool nonetheless. But I do get a little tired of people putting stuff out there like this that warps (some peoples) perception around how long things actually take. We wonder why, as an industry, we misjudge timelines on things left and right.

Even if we take it at face value, this is a person who's intimately familiar with this product. So sure, it's easy to set things up when we've done it a bunch of times. If you were doing this, solving the novel problem that you're faced with, is that how long it would take? Plus that's not really what most of us get paid to do. We have to learn on the fly and figure stuff out as it comes.

So rather than have the provocative headline and conclusion, like a lot of other people have commented... this is really something that could amplify that $50/hour employee, not take their job away. And maybe we shouldn't read into the alleged speed so much. YMMV.


>Python or Node

Python, sure, but replacing Bash with Node just seems like replacing a language crippled by its need to be backward compatible with (Bourne) sh with a language crippled by its need to be backward compatible with what Brandon Eich came up with in two weeks in 1995.


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