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by jchook 1844 days ago
Afaik Chrome does not support the standard, yet Firefox supports Chome’s API. As a result, most extensions seem to use the Chrome API.

Firefox also provides a polyfill to adapt the Chrome API to the WebExtensions standard.

More info here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...
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TedDoesntTalk 1844 days ago
> Afaik Chrome does not support the standard

Chrome published the WebExtensions API, not Mozilla. Whether or not it’s a standard is another question, you could call it a defacto standard, but Chrome definitely implemented the api that they published.

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syshum 1843 days ago
"WebExtensions" is a nebulous term and I can find no where that Chrome calls their API WebExtensions, it is simply the "ChromeAPI"

Mozilla as even stopped using the term WebExtensions, instead just going with Extensions [2]

The "spec" that most people refer to as WebExtensions, is BrowserExtensions orginally published by Microsoft via W3C [1]

[1] https://browserext.github.io/browserext/ [2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Terminology#Background

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