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Re:Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Andro... by sertbdfgbnfgsd on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @03:11PM (#38196247)
ELI5 why is Firefox "supporting extensions", instead of implementing an API?
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Re:Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Andro... by danShumway on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @08:34PM (#38199824)
I'm not sure there's much of a difference in practice?

Firefox is implementing the Firefox-specific V3 webextension API (at least, most of it) that they have on Desktop, and they're also turning on support for installing addons from the AMO generally rather than just a subset of curated addons.

So it's sort of both (with some emphasis on "turning on" because as far as I know a decent portion of the API was already implemented before this point).

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