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Thunderbird too

Posted Nov 12, 2011 15:35 UTC (Sat) by gerv (subscriber, #3376)
In reply to: Thunderbird too by nix
Parent article: Firefox 8 released

The downside of which, of course, is that extensions can't do nearly as much in Chrome as they can in Firefox. They can only do what the Chrome developers allowed for in their API.

Gerv

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Thunderbird too

Posted Nov 12, 2011 16:56 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

One simple extension that always works is worth a hundred cool ones that can break at any time because of an update including security fixes that you *have* to do. Maybe I am showing myself to not be a cool cat by valuing stability and security above whizbang, but so be it.