Browser extensions give people a way to take control of how they experience the web. This week Apple has announced that Safari is adopting a web-based API for browser extensions similar to Firefox’s WebExtensions API, making it easy to build once and run in multiple browsers. Developers can get started with Firefox Extension Workshop or consult the comprehensive documentation on…
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23 Jun 2020
16 Oct 2019
The web-ext tool was created at Mozilla to help you build browser extensions faster and more easily. Although our first launch focused on support for the desktop Firefox browser, followed by Firefox for Android, our vision was always to support cross-platform development once we shipped Firefox support. With the 3.2.0 release, you can finally use web-ext to truly build cross-platform…
30 Sept 2019
Creating experiences that look and work great across different browsers is one of the biggest challenges on the web. It can also be the most rewarding part, as it gets your app to as many users as possible. Testing legacy browsers late in the development process can break a feature that you spent hours on, even requiring rewrites to fix.…
12 Jul 2019
We've been conducting an ongoing post-mortem on the add-ons outage that occurred earlier this year. There was a lot more digging to do than we expected. In addition to this updated high-level overview, we've also published our findings in detailed incident and technical reports that are now available. The post Add-Ons Outage Post-Mortem Result appeared first on Mozilla Hacks -…
9 May 2019
Recently, Firefox had an incident in which most add-ons stopped working. This was due to an error on our end: we let one of the certificates used to sign add-ons expire which had the effect of disabling the vast majority of add-ons. Now that we’ve fixed the problem for most users and most people’s add-ons are restored, I wanted to…