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The Mozilla add-ons website is the official repository for Firefox add-ons. [1] In contrast to mozdev.org which provides free hosting for Mozilla-related projects, the add-ons site is tailored for users. By default, Firefox automatically checks the site for updates to installed add-ons. [19]
Mozilla software uses add-on as an inclusive term for a category of augmentation modules that are subdivided into plugins, extensions, themes, and search engines. The most common plugins are Acrobat Reader, Flash Player, Java, QuickTime, RealPlayer, Shockwave Player, and Windows Media Player.
Jetpack was a working group which wrote a software development kit for Firefox add-ons. They produced the Add-on SDK, a set of APIs, a runtime, and a command-line tool for creating and running add-ons, and the Add-on Builder, a Web-based integrated development environment which used the SDK. [2] [3]
Greasemonkey is a userscript manager made available as a Mozilla Firefox extension.It enables users to install scripts that make on-the-fly changes to web page content after or before the page is loaded in the browser (also known as augmented browsing).
Firefox is free-libre software, and thus in particular its source code is visible to everyone. This allows anyone to review the code for security vulnerabilities. [18] It also allowed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to give funding for the automated tool Coverity to be run against Firefox code.
Browser plug-ins are a different type of module and no longer supported by the major browsers. [2] [3] One difference is that extensions are distributed as source code, while plug-ins are executables (i.e. object code). [2] The most popular browser, Google Chrome, [4] has over 100,000 extensions available [5] but stopped supporting plug-ins in ...
uBlock Origin (/ ˈ j uː b l ɒ k / YOO-blok [5]) is a free and open-source browser extension for content filtering, including ad blocking.The extension is available for Firefox and Chromium-based browsers (such as Chrome, Edge, Brave, and Opera).