The traditional model of application installation gives the application total control over your user account, including your browser.
Installing an RSS reader as a separate program would in fact be more dangerous than one as an extension.
Installing an RSS reader as a separate program would in fact be more dangerous than one as an extension.
For what it's worth, I agree that the traditional model gives up all control. I'm not a fan of that either, and I go to some lengths to isolate processes from each other. I certainly wish we had saner desktop OSes.