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		derefr on June 9, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Opera, Brave, Vivaldi to ignore Chrome's anti-ad-b... Given that Firefox has now also moved to using WebExtensions, the Chromium forks could just rely on http://addons.mozilla.org as their “store.”

kbrosnan on June 9, 2019 [–]

Firefox add-ons have a different namespace and some additional APIs that Blink does not support. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web... and https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

jannes on June 10, 2019 | [–]

And Firefox add-ons return promises instead of taking callbacks like Chrome.

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