As the developer of a recommended extension ( forget me not ), I have been invited by Mozilla to join a full day workshop at MozFest . The workshop has been described as: The focus of our day together will be exploring ways to optimize the Recommended Extensions program, improve the overall quality o…

Manifest v3: I know this is hard to hear, but we need to stay as compatible as possible (where it makes sense, no way I’m using browser without working AdBlock!) - to make it easy for developers to support “less popular” browsers (sadly, it’s Firefox now). Extending limited API is of course welcom…

Please preserve the editing and blocking features of the webRequest API. I am a developer and have some basic extensions that rely on this, for example here and here .

“Recommended Developers program” (yes, new program for recommending addon developers, not just selected addons)

Not sure what you want to tell me with that quote… Are you suggesting a new program, which recommends developers rather than extensions?

@juraj.masiar I’m interested in learning more about this. :slight_smile:

The idea behind is simple - good developers produces good (safe) addons. But who is good and who’s not? Right now you cant tell, because it’s all anonymous. You have “AdBlock XY” made by user “AdBlock XY”. Imagine going for a job interview with a anonymous mask and saying to your new boss: “Hi, I…

@juraj.masiar I like the general idea. Though it should obviously not require personal data, i.e. stay anonymous. But there are other criteria you can use to judge the quality of add-ons and thus developers making them. So good add-ons may just lead to the dev account being “validated” or so. Also…

@juraj.masiar This seems more like a “validated developer” like @rugkx suggests . There is no way to tell if a developer is good simply by seeing that he/she did the full registration. I see good in having a “identity verified” badge of sorts for such developers, but calling it “recommended develop…

Recommended Extensions I’d like Mozilla to offer recommendations only where there’s a demonstrably good track record for basics such as release notes. Amber alerts for these developers of recommended extensions: LastPass – https://forums.lastpass.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=288305&p=1156665#p1156665 …

Is it just release notes or are there any other “basics” that are missing on recommended extensions? Btw, found this description on the blog on the criteria recommended extensions must meet: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/04/08/recommended-extensions-program-coming-soon/ I don’t see release…

Collecting your thoughts about Manivest V3 and the Recommended Extensions program

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