I was wondering if it is possible to secure a
name for an addon or in general work on
the addon project page before releasing it?
Since one needs to select a file to upload
I would guess this isn’t possible in that
regard, though it would be possible to
use an empty placeholder addon…
Considering that preparing this seems
rather natural I would this of this as a
sensible procedure, however I would
like to know if there is any problem
with this before I proceed.
As far as I know, add-on names are not required to be unique, only add-on IDs must be unique. So you can’t really hold the name for an add-on by uploading one.
Ah, I see. I thought they had to be unique considering the potential for users to mistake one addon over the other.
It certainly is less confusing when they are different!
No, it’s not possible to create add-on pages or reserve anything before the first version gets published.
As jscher2000 said above, the unique identifier of an add-on is its id. However, another unique part is the slug in the addons.mozilla.org URL (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/[slug]/) as an URL can only point to a single add-on.