[KennyBlanken]

It sounds like they intentionally under-provisioned you all to draw it out, which isn't surprising given their biggest source of funding is Google, and the last thing Google wants is ad/tracker blocking, privacy extensions, and, well, a major reason for people to set their default browser to 'not chrome'.

Lord knows there's enough money floating around that place.

What a shame - but thank you. Hopefully plugins come to Firefox for iOS some time.

[figmert]

Considering uBlock Origin was the first extension to work (and, from what I understand, they worked extra hard to ensure it works), I doubt that's the reason.

[rightbyte]

That could be a power struggle. I.e. some Google loyal PM sabotaged the extension feature, but quoting the poster above, the devs worked around it by doing a partial implementation to support adblockers, foiling the plan :)

[coldpie]

You don't need to invent some spy story fiction to explain software cost under-estimates and delays.

[figmert]

Not everything is a conspiracy

[rightbyte]

Sure. Obviously I don't know why.

[2Gkashmiri]

I am desperately looking for an extension that takes over godawful js video players and gives something standard. Some have click to pause, some forward backward, all don't have volume control.

[account42]

Might not be exactly what you are looking for but I use an extenstion [0] to open videos in an external video player (mpv). That way the controls are consistend and playback does not depend on where I browse.

mpv uses youtube-dl (or yt-dlp) to fetch the stream URLs and that supports many sites.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/send-to-mpv-play...

[st3fan]

Nope you are making up stories.