Manifest V3 Updates
Greetings add-on developers! We wanted to provide an update on some exciting engineering work planned for the next few Firefox releases in support of Manifest V3. The team continues to … Read more
Developer Spotlight: Port Authority
A few years ago a developer known as ACK-J stumbled onto a tech article that revealed eBay was secretly port scanning their customers (i.e. scanning their users’ internet-facing devices to … Read more
1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available
The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. … Read more
Developer Spotlight: Control Panel for Twitter
You can’t predict how or when success will come. In the case of Control Panel for Twitter — a Firefox extension that gives users authority over the amount of algorithmic … Read more
Manifest V3 & Manifest V2 (March 2024 update)
Calling all extension developers! With Manifest V3 picking up steam again, we wanted to provide some visibility into our current plans as a lot has happened since we published our … Read more
Developer Spotlight: YouTube Search Fixer
Like a lot of us during the pandemic lockdown, Shubham Bose found himself consuming more YouTube content than ever before. That’s when he started to notice all the unwanted oddities … Read more
A new world of open extensions on Firefox for Android has arrived
Woo-hoo you did it! Hundreds of add-on developers heeded the call to make their desktop extensions compatible for today’s debut of a new open ecosystem of Firefox for Android extensions. … Read more
Open extensions on Firefox for Android debut December 14 (but you can get a sneak peek today)
Starting December 14, 2023, extensions marked as Android compatible on addons.mozilla.org (AMO) will be openly available to Firefox for Android users. “We’ve been so impressed with developer enthusiasm and preparation,” … Read more
Is your extension ready for Firefox for Android? Be part of the launch of a new open mobile ecosystem
During the release cycle of Firefox 120, we’ll begin to see the emergence of dozens of new, openly available extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’re taking a … Read more