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Ever wanted to quickly hack together your own homebrewed extension for Chrome? You've now lost the ability to do so unless you publish to the wretched Chrome Web Store, which allows only for a princely maximum of 20 extensions by default [1] and has a nebulous review process [2].

Hopefully, this restriction doesn't exist in Chromium.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/faq#faq-gen-29

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/faq#faq-listing-08

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I do use my own extensions, that I don't distribute, for many everyday conveniences during browsing. I've reluctantly, given lack of good alternatives, stuck with Chrome for a long time; but this is the change that finally forced me to switch to Firefox. It's not perfect, but it definitely is the least evil.

I did the same today. If you're converting extensions from Chrome to Firefox, you might like this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Po...

Whoa, looks like it'll take way less effort than I imagined to port my extension to Firefox. I think I'll do that next week.

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