[HN Gopher] It's time to port your extension to Firefox
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       It's time to port your extension to Firefox
        
       Author : DanielDe
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2021-02-12 17:27 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | arch-ninja wrote:
       | > [Google] had rejected our extension 6 times with no detail
       | because of a technicality.
       | 
       | Sounds like a good company to do business with.
        
       | phendrenad2 wrote:
       | Wow, I didn't know that porting to FF was so easy. Good to know!
        
       | ahurmazda wrote:
       | As a FF user, yay! However, I am a tad confused if the comparison
       | is indeed apples-to-apples. E.g is chrome and firefox app team
       | running similar suite of tests? What if firefox app team only
       | checks for typos in the title (contrived). Of course it feels
       | good to get an immediate approval.
       | 
       | In any case, the process (both Chrome/FF) should be as
       | transparent as possible so a dev knows what they are dealing
       | with. I can't imagine the frustration to have to deal with
       | unhelpful automated responses.
        
         | DanielDe wrote:
         | Yep, this is a great point. But as you say, it's hard to know
         | if Chrome is actually doing anything substantively better or
         | not since I don't actually know what they're doing. And from
         | what I've observed through this process it seems like whatever
         | they're doing isn't consistent.
         | 
         | For what it's worth, Firefox asks for an unminified source
         | bundle during the submission process (including for all
         | updates), and Chrome does not. This doesn't mean that anyone
         | over at Mozilla is actually looking through that source, but
         | it's an interesting difference.
        
       | tomaszs wrote:
       | I am personally using a lots of browser extensions because of my
       | dev job. I have switched some years ago to Chrome when it was
       | faster than Firefox for a short moment. Now i consider going back
       | because Chrome eats so much RAM there is little left for node.js
       | and vscode. Even more with every extension installed. I had to
       | disable bunch of these for that reason.
       | 
       | I know it is off topic. However, can anyone share info if Firefox
       | is better at this point considering memory usage?
        
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