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by reitanqild 3645 days ago
Which is impressive I guess given that Firefox users often use extensions of varying quality?
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I'm sure there are a lot of Firefox extensions of questionable quality but I would expect that at least the popular ones are of fairly decent quality. I also would assume that only a small minority of users know about and actually use extensions.

Even people who do use extensions probably don't really use more than an adblocker.

Adblock Plus is very popular and very inefficient: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-vs.-ABP:-effic...
An extension doesn't have to be popular to be significant. 1% of people accidentally installing some spyware crap that slows down the browser by 50,000% is going to move the needle.