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In the second quarter of 2015, version 5 of the extension for Firefox was rebased using Mozilla's Add-ons SDK (previous versions used XUL). Firefox Quantum ceased support for extensions that use XUL or the Add-ons SDK [6] so the extension was rebased using WebExtensions APIs. As a result of Mozilla's changes, reliance upon the companion ...
In 2017, Mozilla enacted major changes to the application programming interface (API) for extensions in Firefox, replacing the long-standing XUL and XPCOM APIs with the WebExtensions API that is modeled after Google Chrome's API. [2] [3] [4] Thus add-ons that remain compatible with Firefox are now largely compatible with Chrome as well. [5]
Internet Explorer was the first major browser to support extensions, with the release of version 4 in 1997. [7] Firefox has supported extensions since its launch in 2004. Opera and Chrome began supporting extensions in 2009, [8] and Safari did so the following year. Microsoft Edge added extension support in 2016. [9]
Features that the Firefox developers believe will be used by only a small number of its users are not included in Firefox, but instead left to be implemented as extensions. [48] Many Mozilla Suite features, such as IRC chat and calendar have been recreated as Firefox extensions. Extensions are also sometimes a testing ground for features that ...
Project Naptha is a browser extension software for Google Chrome that allows users to highlight, copy, edit and translate text from within images. [1] It was created by developer Kevin Kwok, [2] and released in April 2014 as a Chrome add-on. This software was first made available only on Google Chrome, downloadable from the Chrome Web Store.
An ad-blocking browser extension displays a list of rules downloaded from the popular subscriptions Easylist and Fanboy's Annoyances List. One method of filtering is simply to block (or prevent auto play of) Flash animation or image loading or Microsoft Windows audio and video files. This can be done in most browsers easily and also improves ...
Add-ons are primarily coded using an HTML, CSS, JavaScript, with API known as WebExtensions, which is designed to be compatible with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extension systems. [77] Firefox previously supported add-ons using the XUL and XPCOM APIs, which allowed them to directly access and manipulate much of the browser's internal ...