I am a new vibe coder and know how to make most things but not extensions. If you want people to make more firefox extensions you should really make a video. There is not a single one showing how to do right now
Hi Ano_ano, and thanks for reaching out.
We would love to have more useful add-ons in our platform. Do you have a specific idea you would like to implement, but you don’t know where to begin?
Vibe coding a Firefox add-ons is not drastically different from vibe coding any other webapp. The main difference is ensuring it meets our policies.
We could build an agent/skill to help you comply with our policies, but the only issue with AI is that you can’t be 100% certain with what it produces.
I have been experimenting a lot, especially with our policies, and there were times when the AI would say my add-on was not compliant, but it was, or vice versa.
For inspiration, Google skills for extensions development:
@mozchris Does Mozilla want more AI-generated add-ons? According to Important update: Addressing the long manual review times , “We’re experiencing up to 4x increase in the number of new add-ons and versions submitted!”
I think it’s safe to assume that 99% of this increase is from AI-generated code.
I also think it’s more likely than not that most of this AI-generated code will be of dubious quality.
For example, I’ve seen quite a few posts here where the “data_collection_permissions” were in the wrong place and/or had a completely wrong format, and the “programmer” didn’t even take the time to read the documentation.