Ever since Safari killed off the old-style extensions they had, and forced the annoying 'you must bundle in an app' on everything so that it has to be on their app store, it's basically been dead to me.
If it doesn't run uBlock Origin, it's not a real browser (so Firefox it's been for me ever since).
The most developer-hostile (and hence user-hostile) move they did was to also force devs to be registered to be able to distribute extensions for Safari, something that's free to do with all other browsers (or basically free - I think Google charges a one-time $5 fee to basically verify you're a person, whereas Apple requires a yearly $100 dev account).
There's simply no incentive for developers to support it when Apple puts up such barriers. Of course some will say that's a good thing because it supposedly enhances security - but what good is a secure extension that doesn't even exist?
This. I wrote an extension in an hour or two back when Safari 5.1 was brand new and I was bored of reading through research papers in grad school. It scratched an itch I had by restoring behavior that had changed to how it worked previously. Nothing fancy, and certainly not something I ever profited from nor sought to profit from. I enjoyed the experience and enjoyed having the itch scratched. While I'd have been fine if technical considerations forced it into obsolescence (and I thus got some more experien
What good is a ticket to the good life, if you can't find the entrance?
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Ever since Safari killed off the old-style extensions they had, and forced the annoying 'you must bundle in an app' on everything so that it has to be on their app store, it's basically been dead to me.
If it doesn't run uBlock Origin, it's not a real browser (so Firefox it's been for me ever since).
The most developer-hostile (and hence user-hostile) move they did was to also force devs to be registered to be able to distribute extensions for Safari, something that's free to do with all other browsers (or basically free - I think Google charges a one-time $5 fee to basically verify you're a person, whereas Apple requires a yearly $100 dev account).
There's simply no incentive for developers to support it when Apple puts up such barriers. Of course some will say that's a good thing because it supposedly enhances security - but what good is a secure extension that doesn't even exist?
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This. I wrote an extension in an hour or two back when Safari 5.1 was brand new and I was bored of reading through research papers in grad school. It scratched an itch I had by restoring behavior that had changed to how it worked previously. Nothing fancy, and certainly not something I ever profited from nor sought to profit from. I enjoyed the experience and enjoyed having the itch scratched. While I'd have been fine if technical considerations forced it into obsolescence (and I thus got some more experien