[vrinsd]

Hi Andreas,

First, thanks for this project and making your self accessible!

Will "plug-in" or "add-on" support be a first-party concept in Ladybird?

I ask that because in years past a few other browsers (Konqueror, Falkon, Dillo, etc) made it pretty far but lacking add-ons, useful capability such as 'NoScript' or 'uBlock' or even a tab manager made them non-starters.

[pmlnr]

NoScript for Dillo makes no sense as it doesn't support JS anyway. uBlock... yeah, a little, but most annoyances will be blocked by the lack of JS support anyway.

Plus there are plugins for dillo... https://dillo-browser.github.io/#plugins

[zzo38computer]

The plugins for Dillo are only protocol plugins; there are no file format plugins and no other kinds of plugins. However, I mentioned they should implement file format plugins too; other people also wanted this, and it does seem to be wanted enough that they might do it. (Other plugins will be more complicated to consider how to support it)

[gigatexal]

Exactly. I need 1Password and a vim mode plugin for me to be productive on the web.

[zzo38computer]

I would hope that plug-ins and add-ons can be written in C (although any extensions written in C should be only allowed if installed manually by the end user (e.g. by adding it to some configuration file); it should never install them automatically from a "app store" or similar). That is a feature I would use.

[rstat1]

If by "C" you're asking for C compiled to WASM, then fine. But otherwise I would hope that WASN'T ever possible.

The endless security nightmare that was ActiveX and NPAPI should serve as more than enough reason why that shouldn't be a thing again.

"Installed manually not from app store" is even worse because then you're encouraging people to download random binaries from random websites and that's even worse

[tracker1]

I would think that wasm should probably be the "binary" extension target, which could include C source.

Just my opinion.

[atlas_hugged]

Wat?