Hi.
I have been developping addons for a long time, and I always tried to have a code compatible with each browser.
Today, I tried to upload a new version of one of my addons and it was refused because of an error in the manifest file.
This error occured because of this line : “optional_permissions”: [ “background” ]. It never happened before.
According to [optional_permissions - Mozilla | MDN], the background permissions is not supported by firefox. I think a permission check was added, and as “background” is not supported, it is not in a permissions array and the validation fails.
It forces me to compress my addon with different versions of its manifest file. Wouldn’t it be better if not supported permissions generate a warning rather than a validation fail? And then, if the developer decide to upload his addon with not supported permissions, firefox can simply ignore them?
Thank you.