WebExtensions/Roadmap

This is an initial roadmap of WebExtensions.

Status: draft, in progress.

WebExtensions exist at the time of writing of this page. They exist in Nightly, but as APIs get written they get added to Nightly and pushed through the trains.

WebExtensions 1.0

Focuses of the first release:

• quality, stability and a base for many add-ons to move to
• parity with Google Chrome and others on some (but not all APIs)
• ability to build key add-ons that are not part of

Application support:

• Firefox
• Firefox for Android (where APIs are appropriate)

APIs

Focus on key APIs that bring the biggest return for investment. Currently these are: alarms, browserAction, extension, i18n, notifications, runtime, storage, tabs, webNavigation and windows APIs. For the full list, look at the tracking bug 1214433

Development tools

Authors of WebExtensions add-ons should be able to develop easily their add-on locally, with support from tools like `jpm`. All APIs should be documented.

AMO

WebExtensions will be able to be uploaded to addons.mozilla.org then reviewed, searched, installed and updated just like any other Addon 1210037

Timeline

By the end of Q2 2016.

Deprecations

We don't anticipate that this release will cause any deprecations of other ways of building add-ons, although certainly we'd hope most resource will go into this release.

WebExtensions 1.1

Under discussion.