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Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by brobdingnagians on Friday November 30, 2018 @10:25AM (#18569724)
I'm currently developing a browser extension, and was a bit shocked that I couldn't just load it on Firefox like on Chromium. It seems like such a basic thing, maybe that's because I'm a dev and expect that they will cater to development, but it was one of the first usability things where I preferred Chrome. I ditched iPhone for Android for similar reasons, and it seems that one thing Google does really well is make the developer workflow easy.
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by gildas on Friday November 30, 2018 @12:52PM (#18570878)
You can load it like on Chromium. Go to about:debugging#addons, click the "Load temporary Addons" button and select your manifest.json file.
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by brobdingnagians on Friday November 30, 2018 @02:20PM (#18571791)
Aaah, thank you! That will help tremendously. The third-party resources I was looking at neglected that point.
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by jamesgeck0 on Friday November 30, 2018 @11:12AM (#18570079)
Any version of Firefox can load unpackaged addons for the current session. IIRC, with the CLI tool you can even auto-reload it as you make changes to source.
Re:Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store by dartf on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @08:06AM (#18607841)
You can use web-ext[1] to simplify development process

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext