points by bad_user 5 years ago

Firefox does support media keys, but it's experimental and you have to enable them in about:config:

- media.hardwaremediakeys.enabled

- dom.media.mediasession.enabled

#1 seems nice. Note however that Firefox was safer even before they introduced their permissions system simply by having a review system that works.

The review system of Chrome Web Store is broken, there's a lot of malware on it, extensions bought and turned malware and then you've got completely legitimate extensions being banned due to some automatic process flagging them. And then it's really hard to get in touch with humans. All the while reported malware take months to be taken down.

Of course, it's also true that Chrome is simply the bigger target. And what Mozilla is doing now probably doesn't scale. But for now Firefox's ecosystem of add-ons is much, much safer (and arguably more useful). Has been that way for some time.

I used to complain that it doesn't have a permissions system, I then complained that you can't disable add-ons in private mode. But it keeps evolving and I'm sure it will implement your favorite too, if useful.