{"id":7903,"date":"2016-08-15T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T20:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2016-08-11T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T22:41:54","slug":"restart-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2016\/08\/15\/restart-required\/","title":{"rendered":"“Restart Required” Badge on AMO"},"content":{"rendered":"

When add-ons were first introduced as a way to personalize Firefox, they required a restart of Firefox upon installation. Then came \u201crestartless\u201d extensions, which made the experience of installing an add-on much smoother. Every iteration of extensions APIs since then has similarly supported restartless add-ons, up to WebExtensions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To indicate that an add-on was restartless, we added “No Restart” badges next to them on addons.mozilla.org<\/a> (AMO). This helped people see which add-ons would be smoother to install, and encouraged developers to implement them for their own add-ons. However, two things happened recently that prompted us to reverse this badge. Now, rather than using a “No Restart” badge to indicate that an add-on is restartless, we will use a “Restart Required” badge to indicate that an add-on requires a restart.<\/p>\n

One reason for this change is because we reached a tipping point: now that restartless add-ons are more common, and the number of WebExtensions add-ons is increasing, there are now more extensions that do not require a restart than those that do.<\/p>\n

Another reason is that we encountered an unexpected issue with the recent introduction of multiprocess Firefox<\/a>. In Firefox 48, multiprocess capability was only enabled for people with no add-ons installed. If you are one of these people and you now install an add-on, you\u2019ll be asked to restart Firefox even if the add-on is restartless. This forced restart will only occur over the next few versions as multiprocess Firefox is gradually rolled out. This is not because of the add-on, but because Firefox needs to turn multiprocess off in order to satisfy the temporary rule that only people without add-ons installed have multiprocess Firefox enabled. So a \u201cNo Restart\u201d badge may be confusing to people.<\/p>\n

Restartless add-ons becoming the norm is a great milestone and a huge improvement in the add-on experience, and one we couldn’t have reached without all our add-on developers\u2014thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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