Well i received an email from mozilla saying they have changed their review policy with regards to extensions with significantly large numbers of users, they say they are going to manually review all updates for the most popular extensions from now on.
oh great, lets step back to the medieval ages, when everyone else is living in the ever accelerating AI age…
They say this change may result in “minor delays”, but come on, the exact same extension and exact same code submitted to the chrome webstore gets approved immediately, (the only difference being i updated the chrome version to MV3) I would consider a minor delay 10 or 15minutes, not 3 or 4 days… The other thing is the chrome version has over 100 times more users than the firefox version of the extension. So how come google can review and approve minor extension updates instantaneously but firefox must take 4-5 days…?
The full text of their email is below for anyone who is interested:
Hello Firefox extension developers,
We wanted to make you aware of a recent change to AMO’s review process, as it may impact new submissions of your extension. All extension submissions with a significantly large number of users are now subject to human review by the add-ons review team before approval. This may, occasionally, result in minor delays publishing new versions of your extension on AMO. We’ve made this change to provide Firefox users with even greater security assurances for some of AMO’s most popular extensions, such as yours.
As always, we greatly appreciate your contributions to the Firefox extension ecosystem. Cheers!
Firefox Add-ons staff