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There is a possible progression from “Firefox only” to “Experimental” to the “Standards-track”. For example, the contextual identity API could start as a Firefox only API. It would then be possible for another browser to add in that feature. It could then be moved from Firefox-only over to Experimental in the hopes that we can standardise it.
There is a possible progression from “Firefox only” to “Experimental” to the “Standards-track”. For example, the contextual identity API could start as a Firefox only API. It would then be possible for another browser to add in that feature. It could then be moved from Firefox-only over to Experimental in the hopes that we can standardise it.


At this time (October 2017) Firefox implements most of the browser extensions standard across Firefox. Firefox for Android is not as complete. We view that standard as the core of the extensions API for Firefox.
At this time (October 2017) Firefox implements most of the browser extensions standard across Firefox. Firefox for Android is not as complete.
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