[yc1010]

Instead of a walled garden approach, why cant they do a "Verified by Mozilla" badge for each plugin, with warnings if one doesn't have it BUT still giving the user control and choice of whether to use a plugin.

I a made a quick and dirty plugin for chrome a month ago only to find out i need to undergo an anal exam and give over credit card information to Google, fuck that! is that where Mozilla want to endup?

[Ygg2]

Well, they have featured plugins, but it doesn't seem to be helping.

[tokenizerrr]

Actually for the Chrome store you can make a developer account, never send them any money and then publish your extension as unlisted. This way it will not show up in search results, but you can still link to it directly.

Less nice than being able to self-host them which used to be possible, though...

[blueskin_]

Because that would be giving their users choice and control rather than apple-style authoritarian dictatorship.