They’re easier to develop, and you won’t have to learn about Firefox internals to get up and running. WebExtensions are decoupled from the platform, so the changes we’ll make to Firefox in the coming year and beyond won’t affect them. Īs we’ve mentioned, WebExtensions are the future of add-ons for Firefox, and will continue to be where we concentrate efforts in 2017. Finally, we’ve continued to focus on communicating changes to the developer community via direct outreach, mailing lists, email campaigns, wikis, and the add-ons blog. We’ve made a number of changes to our process and products to make it easier to submit, distribute, and discover add-ons through initiatives like the signing API and a revamped Discovery Pane in the add-ons manager. Over the last year, we’ve focused as a community on foundational work building out WebExtensions support in Firefox and (AMO), reducing the time it takes for listed add-ons to be reviewed while maintaining the standards we apply to them, and getting Add-ons ready for e10s.

It’s been busy, and we wanted to give everyone an update as well as provide guidance on what to expect in 2017. A little more than a year ago we started talking about where add-ons were headed, and what the future would look like.

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