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The testing burden is already enormous for things people want sites tested for.

Whats the solution for the busy engineer? Anyone know a Selenium plug in that let's you run with browser extensions or something? There's too many popular extensions to test manually.

This is probably so far down the list that I would be interested to hear of any kind of testing of extensions at all for non-extension companies.

Haven't seen this automated, but I have seen internal issues raised by folks within large orgs when their extension started breaking things. But it's only once you have 50+ to 100's of engineers working on a product, each with a subset of extensions installed, that you can rely on the cross product of engineers and their installed extensions for realistic coverage.

I've never worked on a team of more than 7 on a product, so even testing on Firefox is considered too much work for testing.

Put in dollars, it probably costs 5-10 million a year (if not more) to test extensions even haphazardly.

I feel like I could get pretty far building this, with that budget.

Follow this guide: https://support.1password.com/compatible-website-design/. Even if you can't test, at least try. I find that few forms take the basic steps. Most importantly: don't fuck with paste!

I mean what is there to test, really? Just use the the different input types and mark your fields as "email", "password" and so on. There is nothing to test really.

If a password manager does not work when given clear hints / type description of what is expected, then that is the fault of the password manager.

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