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Yes, it is incredibly hard to build an extension system.

Why does nobody build on top of Firefox and Chromium? Probably because tracking upstream changes will be incredibly difficult. I imagine as soon as FF releases a month worth of patches, trying to integrate them and sift through them would take thousands of hours.




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