<div dir="ltr"><div>The best thing would be for each extension author to port their own and upload to <a href="http://addons.mozilla.org">addons.mozilla.org</a> . We have this tool which will help: <a href="https://www.extensiontest.com/">https://www.extensiontest.com/</a> I don't think an automatic conversion would be very helpful because it complicates ownership and future updates.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 12:07 PM Mike Lissner <mike@free.law> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I've been wondering: is there a way that Mozilla could automatically import every extension in the Chrome Web Store? Has any discussion about this already happened? <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm just realizing that:</div><div><br></div><div>1. There are probably thousands of extensions that could be automatically imported from Chrome,<br></div><div>2. When FF57 goes live, the AMO is going to lose a LOT of its ecosystem. <br></div><div><br></div><div>What if there was a way to do this better? There's not much time, but an announcement about this now (even if the work isn't done yet) could go a long ways to making people happy before the big FF57 upgrade breaks all their extensions. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Doing this inoffensively might be tricky, but what if there was a bot that:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Found popular extensions in the Chrome Web Store</div><div>2. Checked their manifest info to see if they're roughly compatible</div><div>3. Checked their links to see if there's a github repo</div><div>4. If so, created a pull request with any necessary changes</div><div>5. Created a new issue explaining that FF extensions are roughly compatible now, and that there's a PR that might already work.</div><div><br></div><div>You'd also want to explain how to deploy the new version to AMO (maybe provide an AMO deployment script?)</div><div><br></div><div>None of that is easy, obviously, but if it brought in even a few hundred of the top extensions from Chrome, that'd be pretty amazing.</div><div><br></div><div>As it is now, I keep seeing extensions on the Chrome store that I want (I'm using FF57 already), and I'm frustrated that they aren't already available. They should be! It's going to be a rough transition for a LOT of people. This could make it a lot smoother by changing the narrative:</div><div><br></div><div>Before: Dang, half of my extensions broke, this sucks! I guess I'm screwed for a while until the ecosystem recovers.</div><div>After: Dang, half my extensions broke, but at least I can install most of the extensions from the Chrome store! <br></div><div><br></div><div>An alternative approach: What if it were possible to install from the Chrome Web Store, even as an experimental thing? That might push Chrome Extension developers to get moving on updating their extensions?</div><div><br></div><div>Mike<br></div><div><br></div><div>Mike<br></div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div class="m_-4903196897513847060gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Mike Lissner<br></div>Executive Director<br></div>Free Law Project<br></div><div>@freelawproject<br></div><a href="https://free.law/donate/" target="_blank">https://free.law/donate/</a><br></div></div>
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