Release an own Firefox add-on

[jezdez]

While I admit the Chrome Store Foxified is a nifty way to handle the differences in packaging of Web Extensions between Chrome and Firefox, it also asks for a lot of permissions:

I would politely suggest to follow the setup of https://github.com/sindresorhus/refined-github, which probably means fixing #114 right? If I were to send a PR to do that, would you accept it?

[salmanulfarzy]

It was discussed at #20 and maintainers were clear about not supporting Firefox directly because of the reasons discussed there and sindresorhus/merge-windows#4 (comment) 😞

[jorgegonzalez]

I think the main issue was that @sindresorhus didn't want to publish it on AMO with the same name.

[sindresorhus]

Anyone is free to publish it to AMO under a different name. I do this project for fun and AMO is not fun.

[jezdez]

@salmanulfarzy Ah, thank you for the link, I must have missed it when I looked earlier.

@sindresorhus Okay, that wasn't really the question, but I see that you're frustrated by AMO so I won't try to ask you to change your mind about it. No offense intended.

Since forking the project to publish it under a different name would increase the maintenance burden unreasonable IMO (e.g. syncing code updates, implement fixes for AMO reviews etc), would you be willing to add me as a collaborator and let me handle the release on AMO?

[timmyRS]

@sindresorhus I'm maintaining a Chrome Extension of my own for which I do all the developing and testing in Chrome and for each new release I just zip it and upload it to the Chrome Webstore & AMO and I've never had any problem with it, nor is it any hard work. You're just uploading 1 zip file to 2 websites. God forbid you to have to upload a file and press 2 buttons!!!

Seriously, stop being lazy, dude.

[sindresorhus]

@timmyRS I’m gonna leave your reply here as it’s more embassaring for you than it hurts me.

[sindresorhus]

@jezdez Alright. Let’s do it. Seeing how popular this project is, I will put my personal feelings aside for the health of the project. You can follow how Firefox support is done in Refined GitHub.

[jezdez]

@sindresorhus Thank you, I really appreciate it!

[ThibaultVlacich]

Considering that Chrome Store Foxified doesn't work anymore on the latest version of Firefox, that would be great! 👍

[MasterOfTheTiger]

I have a fork for AMO.

[filipekiss]

@jezdez I've switched to FF as my main browser. Let me know if you need any help!

[jorgegonzalez]

Any update on this?

[akilangh]

Let me know what kind of help is needed to make this into Firefox. I'm willing to help.

[salmanulfarzy]

Foxified has been discontinued for now.

[MasterOfTheTiger]

Currently there is an add-on called Reimagined Twitter in AMO which is a fork of this. I have been maintaining it so that @sindresorhus doesn't have to deal with it.

[divyanshu013]

Thanks @MasterOfTheTiger, I think this issue may be closed, your extension is working fine 👍

[salmanulfarzy]

I think this issue is still valid and @MasterOfTheTiger has done great job with that fork. But issues with forking project still exists,

Since forking the project to publish it under a different name would increase the maintenance burden unreasonable IMO (e.g. syncing code updates, implement fixes for AMO reviews etc),

#118 (comment)

If I remember correctly reimagined-twitter diverged considerably from refined-twitter previously.

[MasterOfTheTiger]

@salmanulfarzy You are right about me not keeping up to date with Refined Twitter in the past. Recently I redid my form from Refined Twitter to fix merging issues.

The only thing that is different in my fork is the name, and it works quite well. You guys are giving me too much credit. :P You guys here did all the hard work of making the extension work so well, and I respect @sindresorhus's decision not to manage it in AMO.

If something does come up as a problem in Firefox, I will be sure to fix it, but nothing appears to be amiss right now.

[sindresorhus]

Closing as this extension is now deprecated: 8dd9df7