User blog comment:Kirkburn/Browsers - your window on Wikia/@comment-3548599-20130227014034/@comment-1997905-20130227073057

Why is this necessary? Browsers aren't like phones - on a phone, a tiny screen and limited processing capabilities can make using the internet via a browser a hassle. Having a mobile app for your website allows you to take advantage of more efficient processing abilities and better optimization of screen space - that's why they're successful. Having a browser extension for a particular website doesn't make any sense - just go to the website. Leave a tab open for Wikia to check new edits or search for stuff you want to look up. Having an extension is pointless, the processing advantage is paltry at best, the full website is already optimized for your screen, all the features that are available can already be accessed easily, and the development overhead of creating and maintaing an extension would be significant. There's nothing to gain. If there's something you would want in a browser extension, it would be faster, cheaper, easier, and just as powerful to just implement it on the full site.