Good to see they're planning AdBlock in advance. That'll hopefully shut up the nuts who're saying that Google will do anything to prevent AdBlock on Chrome and that it's all a conspiracy.
You've got to figure some extensions'll be made by the public. From the specs, it sounds like google will be building extensions. Imo this is a good change, I've always thought firefox should have a team making & maintaining extensions.
"... I've always thought firefox should have a team making & maintaining extensions ..."
Probably not a good idea for most (aside from Google who have the resources). Most projects concentrate on the core api, documentation and leave the the add-ons for users. I'm specifically thinking of Firefox, JQuery etc.
Google has been bankrolling mozilla for the past couple years now. It's probably in mozilla's interest anyway since extensions provide some good lock-in.
Agreed. They mentioned that they were working on it on their blog when Chrome was released (bringing chrome to Mac and Linux), so I'm hoping it's still a priority.
I wonder if the security features are going to prevent extensions from talking to each other. I'd love it if my GMail tab could run an extension which provided services to an extension in my HN tab...
"Of all the Firefox plug-ins, this is the one essential one," said Firefox user Ole Eichhorn. "Chrome is faster until you factor in all the cruft that gets downloaded as ads, then it isn't faster anymore. When Chrome supports AdBlock, it will be the winner, but until it does, Firefox is the only choice."
