Re: Epiphany and extensions

Nicolas Petton <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Jul 2017 15:22:03 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.apps.epiphany
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,

Hi Michael,

> No, sorry. Epiphany does not support extensions anymore. Ideally we 
> would support WebExtensions (Chrome- and Firefox-compatible 
> extensions), but that would be a big project and it's not currently on 
> the roadmap.

That would be a great addition to Epiphany.  I know it targets regular
users more than developers, but even regular users are used to use a few
extensions for their web browser.

How big of a project would this be?

> In some cases, we'd accept patches to add the desired functionality as 
> a normal built-in feature. But I think our gnome-keyring integration 
> suffices for most users, and I don't think the extra complexity of 
> supporting two different password manager backends would be worthwhile 
> for us. Sorry. :/

That's understandable, I didn't expect Epiphany to support passwordstore.

Cheers,
Nico

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