Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by RohanAdwankar » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 9:56 PM UTC

Installing every* Firefox extension
jack.cab

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by gathered » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 10:57 PM UTC

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by xnorswap » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 11:01 PM UTC

This article is wonderful crazy.

The icing on the cake is the discovery of a potential performance bug in one or more of the about: pages, that's definitely worthy of following up.

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Post by ryanisnan » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 11:04 PM UTC

Dang this is so good. Well done.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by Eddy_Viscosity2 » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC

gathered wrote: post #2

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

Where is the video, I scanned through and only saw still images.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by username135 » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 11:18 PM UTC

"I got basically all the extensions with this, making everything I did before this look really stupid."

I geel this on a deep personal level.

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by lapcat » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 11:22 PM UTC

> It turns out there’s only 84 thousand Firefox extensions.

On addons.mozilla.org, but you can distribute Firefox extensions without posting on addons.mozilla.org. I do.

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Post by rented_mule » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 11:31 PM UTC

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #5

gathered wrote: post #2

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

Where is the video, I scanned through and only saw still images.

It's inline. Search the page for (and heed): epilepsy warning

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by SeanAnderson » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 11:38 PM UTC

Eddy_Viscosity2 wrote: post #5

gathered wrote: post #2

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

Where is the video, I scanned through and only saw still images.

https://jack.cab/blog/every-firefox-extension#attempts-4-10-...

Re: Installing every* Firefox extension

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Post by stratos123 » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

gathered wrote: post #2

I'm laughing so hard at the video, I imagine this is what browsing the web is like for the elderly that barely know how to use a computer. Can someone do this in Chrome?

My favorite part was the metal pipe sound effect. Wish the author investigated which extension does that.