[ronjouch]

Yeah, and thx for the link to the neat crx explorer.

Close to what you do, I started writing my own addon to replace a couple addons whose featureset I use only partially.

For example, when I use Chromium I want 1. to customize the New Tab page, and 2. to add a keyboard shortcut to pin/unpinTab. These two features are absolutely part of extensions, but in addition to the security risk I find them heavy (I don’t need the kitchen sink, just need 2 micro-features!). And so, I have my little personal addon with zero resource usage with just these two features. It’s tiny (20 lines of code!), git-versioned, and never changes / gets pwned. When I need an extra micro-feature, it’s easy enough to add it by searching addons docs, of asking an LLM.

[juliob]

You shouldn’t need an extension just to add a keyboard shortcut for a menu item. Doesn’t your OS let you map that? On macOS you can in Keyboard Settings

[ronjouch]

Indeed, one point for MacOS! I use GNOME.