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They're walking a fine line, though, because Chrome extensions are the cousins of ChromeOS apps, which is an ecosystem they obviously want to promote.

While I've never released any of them, the extensions I've built on on the Chrome API have been a sheer pleasure, if somewhat limited in capability compared to Firefox plugins.

Well I can think of at least one extension that they'd love to make disappear for good.

Maybe they should just stop pay for Firefox development if they don't like Firefox. Google pays huge amounts of money to Mozilla.

that's a little bit disingenuous. google pays huge amounts of money to Mozilla to be the default search engine because of the huge amounts of money Mozilla users make google by using google services on a daily basis. it's not like they're propping up a competitor just for the hell of it (or even to avoid anti-trust issues).

+1 I donated to Mozilla a few days ago, thinking how small my donation was compared to Google. However, Google must make $$ on Firefox hosted searches.