Apple is using AI to fix Safari’s extension problem
Apple wants AI to help users create their own Safari extensions.
Apple is trying to address Safari’s weaker extension ecosystem with AI. Safari has long lagged behind rival browsers in extension availability, partly because of Apple’s stricter development requirements. In a demo shared by Apple, the company showed users effectively “vibe coding” their own Safari extensions, though the excerpt does not detail model support, review flow, or release timing.
Apple is attempting to use AI to address one of Safari's longstanding weaknesses: an incomplete extension ecosystem. Compared to other mainstream browsers, Safari has never had an equally large and active extension library. The original article notes that this is partly due to Apple's stricter requirements for extension development, which raises the barrier for developers to build and maintain Safari extensions, and makes it harder for general users to find the same breadth of tools on Safari as on competing browsers.
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