Chrome, Extensions, Firefox

Yahoo’s Delicious proves Chrome extensions real | Webware – CNET.

Few things to keep in mind with this piece:

1. You need to be running the developer channel build (which crashes numerous times during the course of the day for me), you need to have a flag on the shortcut so unless you click the shortcut with –enable-extensions installed nothing will work.
2. “Extension compatibility can be tough to maintain” – who is he referring to? Does he think Mozilla is in charge of keeping extensions up to date? Or his he pointing to the larger developer community. Extension compatibility is on the developer, Firefox 3.5 was known for months and those who didn’t make their extensions work with it are the only ones to blame. Chrome’s recent change though, is the browser’s fault. They changed their formatting of extensions without notice it seems, breaking extensions. Comparing firefox extension compatibility problems with Chrome’s is apples and oranges.
3. No mention of memory/system resource usage? Has anyone done tests to see how high memory is compared to when you use no extensions? More crashes? These are questions someone needs to ask.