Listing webextension on both AMO and addons.thunderbird.net

I’m the maintainer of the linux-entra-sso web extension for Firefox. I’m planning to offer a dedicated version for Thunderbird as well, but I’m unsure about the following aspects:

  • shall I reuse the same ID?
  • are the addon stores of FF and TB independent (we are self-distributing)?
  • can I automatically upload / release the extension using web-ext, and if so, what –amo-base-url shall I use for TB (self-distribution)?

Any advice is welcomed.

I can answer only the first two points:

  • you can definitely reuse the same ID for both stores, I have done this a few times
  • both addons stores are independent, and sadly Thunderbird one is now very outdated.
    For example Thunderbird still uses HTML tags in the addon description, while Firefox store now uses Markdown.
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@fmoessbauer

According to Thunderbird’s lead add-ons developer “Since we do not sign add-ons, he does not need to upload self hosted add-ons to our store. He should use a different ID for the Thunderbird version, if it differs from the Firefox version.”

In the future you can direct questions to Topicbox

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