Feature Request: Full Support for Chrome Extensions
Dear Mozilla Firefox Team,
I hope this message finds you well.
I would like to start by expressing my deep appreciation for the Firefox browser. I truly admire the values Mozilla stands for, especially regarding user privacy and open-source development. Firefox is fast, secure, and beautifully designed — and I would love to use it as my primary browser.
However, there is one major challenge that prevents me from doing so: extension compatibility. Many of the tools and extensions I rely on for my daily work are either not available on Firefox or do not function as they do on Google Chrome.
I understand that Firefox has its own extension ecosystem and architecture, but I sincerely hope that your team could explore a way to bring full compatibility or at least broader support for Chrome extensions. This feature alone would make Firefox the perfect browser for users like me who value both productivity and privacy.
Thank you for all the hard work and innovation you bring to the web. I look forward to seeing how Firefox continues to evolve.
Best regards,
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Hi,
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Mohamed Gouch said
Many of the tools and extensions I rely on for my daily work are either not available on Firefox or do not function as they do on Google Chrome.
In November 2017, Firefox fully switched to the WebExtensions APIs, which were based on Chrome's extension APIs but designed to be cross-browser compatible. For policy reasons, Mozilla did not implement all of the Chrome APIs. For example, extensions cannot manipulate other extensions. In other cases, Mozilla extended the WebExtension APIs to handle Firefox features like container tabs.
What features are missing that the developers of your favorite extensions need? The odds of major changes to the WebExtensions APIs aren't that high at this point, but some of them might be easy.
But I suspect it's more a matter of extension developers not being willing to spend extra time porting and testing in Firefox because it doesn't have enough users to justify the effort. In that case, if the extension has an open source license, perhaps someone else can do it.
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