It's really disappointing for me to hear this, considering that I have been releasing chrome extensions for the past year. [1,2,3]
One thing I've noticed is that Chrome's extension search is absolute garbage, and even typing the exact name of my extensions, for example "Wikipedia Section Links" [3], doesn't yield my extension, not even on the first page, and the second page is rather hidden and not obvious. Pretty terrible discovery... Why should we develop for such a hostile ecosystem?
Perhaps I lucked out by developing all my extensions as cross-browser web extensions. I've been submitting them all to as many repositories as I can - Chrome, Mozilla, Edge, and Opera.
I feel bad for the author who doesn't have the ability to move their extension to a different browser. Chrome lock-in is a travesty.
One thing I've noticed is that Chrome's extension search is absolute garbage, and even typing the exact name of my extensions, for example "Wikipedia Section Links" [3], doesn't yield my extension, not even on the first page, and the second page is rather hidden and not obvious. Pretty terrible discovery... Why should we develop for such a hostile ecosystem?
Perhaps I lucked out by developing all my extensions as cross-browser web extensions. I've been submitting them all to as many repositories as I can - Chrome, Mozilla, Edge, and Opera.
I feel bad for the author who doesn't have the ability to move their extension to a different browser. Chrome lock-in is a travesty.
[1] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/17/coursera-quiz-pr...
[2] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/15/coursera-playbac...
[3] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/01/20/a-simple-webexte...