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It sounds to me like Mozilla identified your extension as potentially malicious and prioritizing user safety, shut you down first. As far as I know, Mozilla ha
by ryan-c 8y ago
It sounds to me like Mozilla identified your extension as potentially malicious and prioritizing user safety, shut you down first.
As far as I know, Mozilla has no business relationship with extension developers, so I would actually be very concerned if their first action wasn't to cut you off.
- jazoom 8y agoI can confirm Mozilla handles this very poorly. I had the exact same experience with them. It was so bad that I actually just left the extension off their store and now focus on Chrome. There is nothing dodgy about the extension. Mozilla was just being ridiculous.
- davidgerard 8y agoWhat was the extension? Specifically.
- jazoom 8y agoA companion extension to my price comparison website.
- ryan-c 8y agoThat entire class of browser extensions is shady. Do you make money on referrals to shopping sites?
- jazoom 8y agoNot from the extension (not that it would be against Mozilla's ToS if it did). It has other nice features to make our users' lives better. Thank you for judging my business without even knowing it.
- justinclift 8y agoMaybe link to the extension on the Chrome store, so people can see (if?) it's legit from their PoV? :)
- jazoom 8y agoI don't want anyone to misunderstand this as an advertisement. And it's an Australian website. If you're still keen shoot me a PM.
- justinclift 8y agoNah, not that keen personally (I don't even use Chrome). I was just pointing out that it would have been useful to have the URL to reduce confusion. :)
- jazoom 8y agoThe extension isn't the main event. The website is. The extension is currently a proof of concept that I plan to revisit later.
- ryan-c 8y agoBrowser extensions that say they help with comparison shopping are a very common type of "Potentially Unwanted Application" (PUA - aka malware with a legal team). The infamous Superfish is an example of this type of thing, and there are many others. I don't know anything about your business or the extension, I'm just pointing out that you're in a space that makes you suspicious by association.
- jazoom 8y agoFair enough. But this has nothing to do with Mozilla's actions. It was as GP said. It includes things like their incompetence in dealing with a build process that creates transpiled/minified code. Even when I gave them all the source and the build instructions (npm run build) they still couldn't comprehend what was going on. Yes, I know it's strange since Mozilla makes a browser with a JavaScript engine. Edit: I should add that after 2 weeks of back and forth emails the dude was finally able to build it then blamed me for not mentioning he needed to run "npm run build", even though I did mention it AND it's in package.json AND it's mentioned in the (very short and concise) readme.txt. So after this exasperating experience he just took down the extension without warning and said it's because it contains Google Analytics. I would have happily removed Google Analytics from the extension. The dude had my source for 2 weeks and could have told me about that at any time, but decided to tell me after 2 weeks of mucking around, after he had already removed the extension. It was me that decided it was not worth the hassle to have the extension on their store. I just left it off.