It'd be neat if there was a way to install an extension from git, including getting notified of updates and an easy way to install said updates. The current UX around installing extensions "out-of-band" is poor (in both firefox and chrome), I wonder what it'd take to improve things.
> The current UX around installing extensions "out-of-band" is poor (in both firefox and chrome), I wonder what it'd take to improve things.
The problem is that that experience isn't poor because of neglect, it's poor because you're intentionally not supposed to do that kind of thing unless you're developing and testing an add-on yourself.
(I don't know how Chrome arrived at that state, with Firefox the justification was that if the user can do that sort of thing [install random unsigned add-ons] easily, then so can ad-ware [browser toolbars and other spyware stuff].)
