This is similar to the way Chrome extensions didn't expose all the power that legacy FF extensions did; we all learn the hard way that providing nice things and hoping they don't get misused eventually get users hurt. So this is a correction whose details are being honed.
-
-
Show this thread
-
One of those details is that the size of the list provided by each extension to `declarativeNetRequest` is something that is being studied from the performance point of view. Remember that many extensions can provide lists!
Show this thread -
And yes, there is an explicit goal here to remove and reduce use of a much, much slower and more privacy invasive system (blocking `webRequest`). This is a move away from a system that is unsafe in most cases to one that is more like what Apple has shipped.
Show this thread -
There *are* open debates about various limits in the new declarative world. But saying "debates rage about the size of a number as tests to verify continue" isn't a great headline...soooo...
Show this thread -
For sense of scale for those just joining, Apple limits the total number of rules in the Safari implementation to 50K (if I understand it correctly; doesn't seem documented). Chrome's proposal is 30K *per extension* with evaluation ongoing to raise it: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/declarativeNetRequest#property-MAX_NUMBER_OF_RULES …
Show this thread
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
Even as an Enterprise use case this announcement and subsequent refusal to halt it have forced us to a) drop chrome immediately and ban it on BYOD cases b) begin the process of removing and migrating off of gsuite apps, Google, and Android entirely.
- 9 more replies
New conversation -
-
-
Downloading
#firefox right now. Thanks!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.
& Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER
Named PWAs w/
DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.