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@eberhardweber
Yes, Firefox uses the same standard as Chrome but there are enough differences to make the task of creating a separate version laborious with little to no ROI for myself.
I tried for several months back in 2016 to get Discogs Enhancer into the Firefox Add-on store. The code reviewers were largely unhelpful, refused to answer my questions, and repeatedly sent me deprecated documentation, while simultaneously requesting I update their outdated documents myself. The process was quite frustrating and left me with little interest in developing extensions on the Firefox platform.
Even when ignoring the reasons above, there are other issues preventing Discogs Enhancer from being accepted into the Add-On store. Mozilla will not allow extensions to use the innerHTML
method. That means large portions of the codebase (this for example) would need to be rewritten using document.createElement
to generate the necessary markup. This approach makes maintaining, augmenting, and debugging the extension significantly more tedious.
Another big factor is time. I've been working on this extension for close to 4 years now and it's grown quite a bit. It takes a large amount of time and energy to put out new versions. Anytime there is a new feature I need to:
- write the logic
- test it
- write unit and functional tests for it
- update the readme
- update the change log
- create the images and documentation for the learn page
- update the toggle and submenu logic in the popup
- update the website
- update the list of features on the Chrome store page
- make a new release here on Github
- make an announcement post in the group on Discogs.com
Adding Firefox into the mix means even more time doing the aforementioned list of tasks with each new release.
Money also plays a role. Discogs Enhancer uses its own currency conversion API that costs me $72/year to host. The extension is free but I ask for donations. Occasionally generous people will donate a few dollars which helps to offset the cost of hosting. Unfortunately, I only receive around $35 dollars a year in donations. Essentially about enough to cover half of the cost of hosting the API.
I love Discogs and I enjoy working on this extension but the amount of time it takes to maintain it is substantial and I don't receive enough in donations to make the additional time and energy required to support a Firefox version worth it.
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Appreciate the definitive answer. Good luck with maintaining the add-on! Disheartened to hear you received poor support. Unfortunately, the Firefox add-ons WebExtension conversion seems to have been coupled with a fair bit of unfortunate streamlining. It often feels to me like add-on developers are seen by the corporate as a nuisance, or a pest, instead of a positive, transformative force.
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Related Issues (20)
- Feature Request: Wantlist Price Filtering HOT 2
- Adding more currencies HOT 4
- All tests are skipped? HOT 2
- Feature Request: See full size image HOT 5
- Feature Request: only show specified media formats HOT 2
- Discogs Exclusives Dark Theme Support HOT 4
- Possibility to add custom CSS? HOT 1
- Discogs.com subdomains: not dark-mode enabled HOT 2
- Possible to change the Inventory link to have the same settings each time? HOT 2
- Request: Sort a Items For Sale page by price including shipping. HOT 1
- Feature Request: Show if you already own another edition of a release HOT 1
- Error fetching price average HOT 5
- Missing text backgrounds on Digs HOT 1
- Feature Request - Revert Master Record listing to old style HOT 8
- Push history "page" search parameter in everlasting pages HOT 6
- Initialize everlasting page index according to search parameter HOT 3
- Handle Ctrl/Shift + click on "Random item" button HOT 7
- Feature request: Whitelist and blacklist continents HOT 2
- Bug: "Random item" keeps spinning when you open a new tab HOT 5
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