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Major limitation of browser extensions is that if you want to just write them for yourself, there's no user friendly, scalable way to install them. There's no way to tell the browser that you trust all extensions in some directory to be loaded automatically and be used without signing and without maybe even having to be packed into XPI file. There's no "put a bunch of code+manifest into a directory and have browser use that" feature. This kind of simple deployment drove me to write a ton of userscripts when greasemonky just loaded plain files from gm_scripts/ subdir of browser profile directory. It was fun and easy to extend websites back then. Mozilla killed all that.

Deployment is just terrible. There's no way I'm sending my extensions somewhere over the internet to get signed after every change so I can use code I wrote on my own computer. WTF distopia is that? Nevermind the last time I checked the tooling for signing is some stupid ass 100MiB+ NPM/node app I have to now trust too. It's bigger than a freaking Linux kernel build itself.