Self host Firefox addon repository

Firefox Development
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To have the ability to self host your own Firefox addons instance. To be able to self host your own server for hosting Firefox addons.

And to have the ability to add/remove Firefox addon repositories in the Firefox settings. By default the only Firefox addon repository is the official Mozilla Firefox addon store.

When a user adds a repository, they will be warned that downloading addons from a 3rd party repository could be malicious.

This will add more decentralisation to browser extensions in general by allowing anyone to self host their own repository. Similar to how it is possible to self host you own F-Droid repo for Android apps, or Scoop bucket for Windows applications.

This will be a great feature to have on Desktop and Android Firefox.

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I’d like to add a me-too for this

  • Our company has some internal browser addons for development, that can pull info from internal apis. And contain mappings for minified frontend names to the useful names.
  • ATM it’s mainly supported in Chrome but there is a Firefox version that we build in CI as well and can be installed manually by developer who prefer firefox (like me) and critically: for debugging issues in Firefox.
  • The Chrome version is shipped using Chromes Store which has support for Enterpise Google Workspace accounts to use internal extensions.
  • I’m personally looking to just get ansible to automatically fetch and install it. But it would be nice to just use firefox’s standard install/update mechanisms for addons.