Articles tagged "webextensions"

3 articles found

Four circles in a row: three filled with orange watercolor that fades across them, the fourth an empty hairline ring — request, grant, revoke, and the audit primitive that was never filled in.

Mozilla wants AI agents to inherit the extension permission model — I counted what that model looks like at scale

Mozilla's W3C proposal puts AI agent permissions on the browser's extension model. I counted that model at scale: 300,503 extensions, 12,277 already pulled.

Maxim Kosterin

August 10, 2026

7 min read

firefox firefox-extensions file-access

Firefox is about to make file access opt-in — here's what breaks on July 21

Firefox 153 makes extension file access opt-in from July 21 — even for add-ons you already installed. We found 842 Firefox add-ons that request file:// access.

Maxim Kosterin

July 6, 2026

6 min read

Two thin ink lines converging into one wet orange watercolor brush stroke — two dialects becoming a single namespace.

chrome-extensions browser-namespace manifest-v3

Chrome's native browser namespace: what cross-browser extension devs should do now

Chrome added a native, promise-based browser.* namespace in 148. Across the 235,887 Chrome extensions we track, here's what it changes — and what to do.

Maxim Kosterin

June 22, 2026

5 min read