WebExtensions in Firefox 48
WebExtensions in Firefox 48
[Development] Posted Apr 29, 2016 22:45 UTC (Fri) by n8willis
At the Mozilla blog, Andy McKay announces
that the browser maker has officially declared WebExtensions ready to
use for add-on development. "With the release of Firefox 48, we feel WebExtensions are
in a stable state. We recommend developers start to use the
WebExtensions API for their add-on development.
" The
WebExtensions support released for Firefox 48 includes improvements to
the "alarms,
bookmarks,
downloads,
notifications,
webNavigation,
webRequest,
windows
and tabs
"
APIs, support for a new Content Security Policy that limits where
resources can be loaded from, and support in Firefox for Android. LWN
looked at the WebExtensions API in December.