(Cross-posted from the Add-ons Blog ) As part of our ongoing work to make add-ons safer for Firefox users , we are updating our Add-on Policy to help us respond faster to reports of malicious extensions. The following is a summary of the changes, which will go into effect on June 10, 2019. We will …

Hey Caitlin, just wondering… what actually counts as minified and what counts as obfuscated? Using the normal webpack process, which minifies the code, looks pretty obfuscated to me, since all variable names are gone and have been replaced by shorter ones.

Hi Lusito, we have a guide on this on the Source Code Submission page. Does this answer your questions? If there is anything we can expand in that section I’d be happy to hear your feedback. Philipp

Thanks Philip, that does clear it up. So webpack production mode should be fine.

[image] caitlin: If you have questions about these updated policies or would like to provide feedback, please post them here. From https://github.com/jeremiahlee/page-translator/issues/26#issuecomment-568393559 : … I guess that the significance of Mozilla’s posts (and related publicity) was …

I just randomly found this post here years after Mozilla disabled my Page Translator extension . That experience discouraged me, frustrated my many users, and made me feel like people at Mozilla were unreasonable absolutists. I just wanted to say thank you for your kind advocacy of my work back then. …

On Add-on Policies | Firefox Extension Workshop under the heading “Prohibited Data Collection and Transmission” the following is stated: Transmitting or facilitating the transmission of ancillary information (e.g. any data not required for the add-on’s functionality as stated in the description) i…

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