Extension Examples: See the APIs in Action
In the past year, we’ve added a tremendous amount of add-on documentation to MDN Web Docs. One resource we’ve spent time building out is the Extension Examples repository on GitHub, … Read more
Articles in “webextensions”
NoScript’s Migration to WebExtensions APIs
We asked Giorgio Maone, developer of the popular security extension NoScript, to share his experience about migrating to WebExtension APIs. Originally released in 2005, NoScript was developed to address security … Read more
Add-ons at Mozilla All Hands San Francisco
Firefox add-on staff and contributors gathered at Mozilla’s recent All Hands meeting in San Francisco to spend time as a group focusing on our biggest priority this year: the Firefox … Read more
WebExtensions in Firefox 55
Firefox 55 landed in Beta this week, so it’s time for another update on WebExtensions. Because the development period for this latest release was about twice as long as normal, … Read more
Compatibility Update: Add-ons on Firefox for Android
We announced our plans for add-on compatibility and the transition to WebExtensions in the Road to Firefox 57 blog post. However, we weren’t clear on what this meant for Firefox … Read more
Incompatible change to sessions.restore API in Firefox 54
The add-on compatibility update for Firefox 54 was published a while back, but a backward-incompatible change to the sessions.restore WebExtensions API was uplifted to 54, currently in Beta and set … Read more
Thank You to Our Featured Add-ons Advisory Board
Every six months we assemble a new group of add-on experts from the community—be they developers themselves or simply super fans—to help curate each month’s new featured add-ons. The project … Read more
Migrating ColorZilla to WebExtensions
ColorZilla lets you get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly make adjustments to it, and paste it into another program. It also generates gradients and more, … Read more
Update on Compatibility Milestones
The Road to Firefox 57 has been updated with a couple of changes to the timeline: Firefox won’t run in multiprocess mode unless all enabled add-ons have the multiprocessCompatible flag … Read more