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Re:Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox by Sylos on Monday August 07, 2017 @12:26PM (#14948736)
>Chrome's reviewal process is really nice. It usually takes <30 minutes.

Nice for the extension developer, but there's a reason for Mozilla's longer review process. They actually sit down human beings to look over the code and that makes all the difference in keeping AMO clean from malware.

Re:Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox by ChrisSD on Monday August 07, 2017 @12:45PM (#14948895)
Case in point, a recent phishing attack on Chrome extension developers: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/08/after...
Re:Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox by chris_wot on Monday August 07, 2017 @03:15PM (#14950338)
Won't this just decentralise add-on distribution away from the Firefox add-ons store?
Re:Porting a Chrome Extension to Firefox by toyg on Monday August 07, 2017 @08:07PM (#14952353)
Most people never install any extension from third-party sites. As long as Firefox keeps the search features as they are, very few will ever venture outside addons.mozilla.org.