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A command line tool to help build, run, and test web extensions

13 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 3 stories, 10 comments · first 2017-08-12 · latest 2026-07-19

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  1. …you’ll still need a manifest.json, and it looks like both use npm/package.json for dependencies. https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext
    comment by chadrs · 2024-04-30 · in Show HN: I made a CLI tool to create web extensions with no build configuration
  2. > I hope FF gets service workers going soon As of October 2022, that’s “not planned”: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/issues/2532
    comment by tagawa · 2023-02-19 · in Mozilla solves the Manifest V3 puzzle to save ad blockers
  3. Anyone used this and could compare/contrast with web-ext https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext ?
    comment by rhelmer · 2022-04-17 · in The CLI for your next Chrome Extension
  4. …use a .user.js file as their content_script, which I can also publish directly to Greasy Fork. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext#web-ext
    comment by insin · 2021-10-31 · in Curated list of userscripts
  5. Here you go https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext
    comment by prophesi · 2021-09-25 · in Firefox Addons Unable to Update, Undisclosed AMO Issues
  6. …and I think it was more likely I got confused with the announcement that web-ext supports Fenix: https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/releases/tag/4.1.0 So developers can now test for Fenix but there's no permanent solution yet, unless there…
    comment by worble · 2020-05-16 · in uBlock Origin on Firefox Preview
  7. …spotted it recently myself while updating an extension, it's: web-ext run --target chromium [1] https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext/releases
    comment by insin · 2020-04-17 · in Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
  8. …"options.html"}` instead of having to hack an options UI into the target site yourself. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext
    comment by insin · 2020-04-17 · in Userscripts Are Fun and Are Still Very Much Relevant
  9. You can use web-ext[1] to simplify development process [1] https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext
    comment by dartf · 2018-12-05 · in Mozilla pulls Bypass Paywalls from Firefox add-ons store
  10. …publishing a version at addons.mozilla.org too. The tool web-ext makes this almost effortless. https://github.com/mozilla/web-ext
    comment by josteink · 2017-08-12 · in Show HN: Extension-blocking domains removed by threat from other blacklists