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Mozilla confirms Firefox Preview for Android will support Extensions

Posted by Techdows on Oct 24th, 2019

Few months back, Mozilla has launched the Preview version of Firefox for Android, this to replace Firefox Fennec in 2020, the organization already added basic and advanced features to Firefox Preview which is now in version 2.2. Mozilla... More of this article »

Firefox 55 flags Non-WebExtension Add-ons as Legacy

Posted by Techdows on May 2nd, 2017

From Firefox 57 onwards, Firefox browser won’t load any type of legacy add-ons. Latest Firefox 55 Nightly started showing the non-WebExtension add-ons with a legacy badge in the add-ons manager. By doing so Mozilla aims to... More of this article »

UBlock Origin WebExtension now available for Firefox

Posted by Techdows on Oct 31st, 2016

UBlock Origin developer has made some changes to uBO Chrome code that has multi-process support and ported into a WebExtension for Firefox’s and is now available for Nightly for testing. Keep in mind, Ublock Origin WebExtension... More of this article »

Install Chrome Extensions in Firefox with Chrome Store Foxified Add-on

Posted by Techdows on Jul 19th, 2016

Test WebExtensions with Chrome Web Store. Till now you can not install Chrome extensions in Firefox and Firefox extensions in Google Chrome, the latter is not possible, but the former is possible now, thanks to WebExtensions! Currently... More of this article »

Mozilla’s New WebExensions API to Kill thousands of Firefox Add-ons on AMO

Posted by Techdows on Aug 22nd, 2015

Mozilla has announced a new Extension API for Firefox browser called ‘WebExtensions‘  that is compatible with API used by Blink-based Chrome and Opera browsers, and they want to deprecate current Firefox XPCOM/XUL/XBL... More of this article »