And since you won’t be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility.

The community feedback is… interesting to say the least.

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    I’m old enough to remember when the line was “IE has 90% marketshare and nothing’s going to change that”

    Yes the landscape is different now, but these are free apps and there are competitors out there. It takes only a few minutes to switch to Firefox. Google’s hold on this market is not as ironclad as people may think.

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      Mozilla Foundation is kept alive with Google money, for the express purpose of being able to show there’s an alternative and that Chrome is not technically a monopoly. But Firefox will never challenge Chrome on anything that truly matters.

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      If Google gets this going, Firefox has the choice of either adopting the same DRM support or being perceived as that browser where websites don’t work properly like they do in Chrome. It’ll be hard to persuade people who don’t understand what’s going on to adopt it out of principle. Something like this already happened with the media DRM support that browsers currently have.