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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,
by brobdingnagians 8y ago
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.
- jamesgeck0 8y agoAny 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.
- gildas 8y agoYou can load it like on Chromium. Go to about:debugging#addons, click the "Load temporary Addons" button and select your manifest.json file.
- brobdingnagians 8y agoAaah, thank you! That will help tremendously. The third-party resources I was looking at neglected that point.
- dartf 8y agoYou can use web-ext[1] to simplify development process [1] https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext