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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by mmis1000 on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:41PM (#37218418)
Actually every extension on AMO must go through manual inspection to push as auto update. You may push new version to markey without manual inspection. But it won't auto update to users' computers until then.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by Semaphor on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:43PM (#37218427)
Do you have a source for this? I always thought they long ago stopped manual inspections for most extensions.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by mmis1000 on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:48PM (#37218448)
I literally wrote one. And it had been taken down due to reviewer unable to reproduce the achieve I uploaded (it turns out to be a \r\n \n line ending issue. Thanks windows and git).
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by Semaphor on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:14AM (#37218607)
I maintain one as well, and had it approved despite the source having a bug, so that doesn’t sound like much of a source.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by mmis1000 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:41AM (#37218771)
I don't think they ever care about whether your extension has bug or not. They probably only review whether your extension has weird minified code or dependencies.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by Semaphor on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @06:21AM (#37220720)
It was a bug that prevented building it. If they just look at the source code without building it, they’ll have no idea if it’s the same code at all, and it would be useless.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by mmis1000 on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @07:50AM (#37221379)
That's weird. Probably it depends on reviewer? Or probably the reviewer figured out how to compile your source some way? In my experience, the reproducible requirement is always forced.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by Semaphor on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @08:25AM (#37221672)
See my other comment [0], manual reviews have been optional for a long time. There was quite the outcry when they stopped reviewing everything.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37218820

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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by zagrebian on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:57PM (#37218511)
Ok, when adding a new extension to the store. But “recommended extensions” get manually reviewed whenever they update.
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Re:uBlock Origin Lite now available on Firefox by Semaphor on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:53AM (#37218820)
> When a developer submits an extension to addons.mozilla.org, it’s scanned for a set of common issues. It may also be subject to human review.

-- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tips-assessing-safety-e...

*May* is important here. That is also what I remembered changing years ago.

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