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@Vlad What are the engineering challenges faced with implementing auto-updating extensions? Would it be possible to look at Chromium/Firefox to see how they implement it? I know that Orion uses a different browser engine so that may be an unfair comparison.

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    Anatomy5803 The engineering challange is that the most issues on this forum, and there are over 2,000 open ones, are bugs. There is huge pressure to fix those bugs, which you might get a sense of if you just read the first 50 posts when you open the home page (I dare you do that! 🙂.

    So between fixing many small bugs and spending considerable time to introduce a new feature (which will probably bring more bugs) we simply prioritize fixing many bugs, at least as long the backlog contains 2000+ open issues.

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        I just updated all extensions in the dev build. This is landing in the RC this week and in beta in a couple of weeks.

        Vlad Thats understandable. So till "autoupdate extension" feature is not implemented, I would suggest updating extensions in the dev build everytime a new version of Orion is released.

        In this way, while the extension may not always be the latest, they would also not be very far from it.

            Presenting automatic extension updates. Landing in RC tomorrow.

            this was something that really annoyed me about orion, and kept it as my second browser. very happy to see this land.

              I confirm the update of three extensions 😃. Thanks for the effort.

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              How about the mobile version of Orion? Can't find a way to update extensions there.

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