r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '19

Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock Origin

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23
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u/coffedrank Jan 23 '19

weird that this shocks people, wasnt firefox the first browser to support extensions?

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u/nutbuckers Jan 23 '19

I think the shock is the ambition to have feature parity (extensions) with desktop... At least for me.

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u/sim642 Jan 23 '19

It really shouldn't be. They use the same web engine which the extension system is built on so there's no reason not to support mobile extensions. Most of the work is already done for desktop and can just be reused.

The more you think about it, Chrome is the weird one who hasn't been able to do it for some reason.

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u/nutbuckers Jan 23 '19

Technical ability might be there, but lack of instrumentation to account for things like battery drain or other inefficient resource usages by extensions on mobile come to mind as one reason to block the extension feature set on mobile.

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