Google will roll out Chrome's new extension spec next week

[mistercheph]

From don't be evil to shakespearean villain cackling and howling at the moon, what a beautiful story!

[nomilk]

I’ve developed a pavlovian response to Google announcements in which I’ll scramble to figure out what impending hostility google is forcing on me.

I must admit, I’m the weird one; I’ll unthinkingly sponsor OSS for $25/month but buck like a wild horse at the prospect of being forced to pay half that for a crumby youtube subscription.

[cebert]

This might be good news for Firefox for people who value having more control of what their browser does.

[superkuh]

Doing everything they can to diffuse and spread out the blow-back from their removal of the ability to have updates in javascript protection extensions.

[stefan_]

Boiling the frog for 3 years now. And then we get these insulting blog posts of clueless Developer Relations people claiming how amazing it is that they now support 5000 rules, a number surely meant to impress equally clueless people.

[brokenmachine]

Can you explain this more?