Comment #113 on issue 26140 by [email protected]: Chrome Linux single click does not select all http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26140
@112: The problem with moving things into extensions is that you have to define some kind of needs-lots-of-planning API or you wind up with Firefox's mess of a non-API where every extension of any significant complexity is mostly a big decision tree which compensates for Firefox breaking its API almost constantly. ...and unless you plan to severely constrain what changes can be made to Chrome's innards, any such API will probably end up looking like about:config's keys... in which case, they may as well be exposed to the user the way Firefox did. Firefox's big problem IS pushing trivial things into extensions so people like me have dozens of extensions, most of them doing little things that should be default like "Make scroll-wheel switch tabs when used on the tab bar". What's worse, pushing everything into extensions allows them to get away with "We're very stable" when, in practice, they're not because nobody runs with the base configuration they test against. In short, it's a quick road to some mixture of bloat, insability, constant extension breakages, and various other stereotypically Windows problems. (I've often said that Firefox is the Windows of browsers. You can do just about anything with it and it has a huge extension community... but the architecture is junk and it's not as fast/light as the marketing department claims.) -- You received this message because you are listed in the owner or CC fields of this issue, or because you starred this issue. You may adjust your issue notification preferences at: http://code.google.com/hosting/settings -- Automated mail from issue updates at http://crbug.com/ Subscription options: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-bugs
