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      User Experience
      • Build a secure extension
      • Request the right permissions
        • Introduction
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        • Avoid unnecessary permissions
        • Request permissions at runtime
        • Add information about permissions to your extensions AMO page
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        • Determine your consent flow
        • Your consent dialogs
      • Build an accessible extension
      • Onboard, upboard, offboard users
        • Onboarding
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        • Offboarding
      • User experience best practices
        • 1. Keep it focused
        • 2. Give users what they need, where they need it
        • 3. Keep the user informed
        • 4. Be Firefoxy in look and feel
        • 5. Great onboarding experience
        • 6. Test, test, and then test again
      Mobile
      • Differences between desktop and Android extensions
        • Introduction
        • User interface
        • Native application interaction
        • Permissions
        • Storage
      • User experience guidelines for mobile extensions
        • Introduction
        • The basics
        • The extra mile
        • The last mile
      • Developing extensions for Firefox for Android
        • Set up your computer and Android emulator or device
        • Check for Firefox for Android compatibility
        • Install and run your extension in Firefox for Android
        • Debug your extension
        • Manifest V3 compatibility
      • GeckoView Extensions (Android library)
      Port Your Extension
      • Porting a Google Chrome Extension
      Debug and Test
      • Debugging
        • Developer tools toolbox
        • Debugging background scripts
        • Debugging options pages
        • Debugging popups
        • Debugging content scripts
        • Debugging sidebars
        • Debugging storage
        • Debugging developer tools pages and panels
        • Debug permission requests
        • Debugging browser restarts
      • Temporary Installation in Firefox
        • Reloading a temporary extension
        • Using the command line
        • Detecting temporary installation
        • Limitations
      • Testing persistent and restart features
        • What is an add-on ID?
        • What is a Firefox profile?
        • Extension behavior in Firefox
        • What do I do to ensure I can test my extension?
      • Test permission requests
        • Permission grant behavior during testing
        • Observe or verify install time permission requests
        • Retest runtime permission grants
      • Known issues
        • Content scripts don't appear in DevTools
        • Extension source don't update in DevTools
        • "Destroyed actor" errors when debugging Android
    • Publish
      • Get your extension signed
      • Distribute your signed extension
      • Promote your extension
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      • Add-on Policies
        • No Surprises
        • Content
        • Submission Guidelines
        • Development Practices
        • Data Disclosure, Collection and Management
        • Monetization
        • Security, Compliance and Blocking
      • Firefox Add-on Distribution Agreement
        • 1. Introduction
        • 2. Accounts
        • 3. Privacy Policy
        • 4. Distribution, certificates, & review process
        • 5. Your obligations
        • 6. Licenses; proprietary rights
        • 7. Content removal
        • 8. Disclaimer of warranties
        • 9. Limitation of liability
        • 10. Release; indemnification
        • 11. General legal terms
      • Add-ons Blocking Process
        • Security Over Choice
        • Blocking Criteria
        • Developer Outreach
        • Requesting a Block
        • Blocking Other Types of Third Party Software
      • Third Party Library Usage
        • When must links for third-party libraries be provided?
        • How to determine the third-party library link
        • Communicating third-party library links to reviewers
      • What does review rejection mean to users?
        • Review overview
        • Impact of review rejection
        • Blocklisting
      Sign
      • Signing and distribution overview
        • Signing your add-ons
        • Distributing your add-on
        • Post-submission review
        • More information about AMO
      • Package your extension
        • Windows
        • Mac OSX
        • Linux / Mac OSX Terminal
      Distribute
      • Distribute Manifest V2 and V3 extensions
      • Distribute pre-release versions
      • Submitting an add-on
        • Listing on AMO
        • Self-distribution
        • Get help
      • Source code submission
        • Provide your extension source code
        • Default reviewer build environment
        • Use of obfuscated code
        • Source code checklist
      • Firefox version compatibility
        • Version compatibility
        • The `browser_specific_settings` key
        • AMO compatibility setting
        • Recommendations
      • Add-on ownership
        • Transfer ownership
        • Code disputes
      • Developer accounts
        • Setting a display name
        • Blocked accounts
        • Issues receiving emails from AMO
      • Self-distribution
        • Self-distribution options
      • Installing self-distributed extensions
        • Preparing your add-on
        • Install from file on a computer
        • Install from file on Android
      • For desktop apps
      Promote
      • Create an appealing listing
        • Your add-on’s name
        • Create a captivating icon
        • Create a meaningful set of keywords
        • Make sure your summary is just long enough
        • Focus on key features in your screenshots
        • The add-on description can be longer, but not too long
        • Make it local
        • Make it experimental
        • Select the right platforms and versions
        • Categorize well
        • Be prepared to provide support
        • Set up a developer profile
        • Use plain language in any privacy policy or license agreement
        • Gently ask for a review
        • Make use of Markdown
        • Some other points
      • What’s great content and design?
      • Promoting your extension
        • Promote your add-on from your website
        • Friends, family, and colleagues
        • Events and meetups
        • Current users
        • Social media
        • Engage with your users
        • Create a forum, user group, or similar
        • Engage with bloggers and news media
        • Advertising
      • Make money from browser extensions
        • Will I ever be able to sell through AMO?
        • What can't you do
        • What can you do
        • Unsolicited offers
        • How can I maximize my income?
      • Recommended extensions
        • Overview
        • Criteria for Recommended extensions
        • Developer partnership
        • Selection process
    • Manage
      • Stay informed when Firefox changes
      • Publish extension updates
      • Manage authors of your extension
      • Promote your extension
      • Removing your extension from distribution
      Resources
      • Updating your extension
        • Enabling updates to your extension
        • Manifest structure
        • Testing automatic updating
      • Best practices for updating your extension
      • Monitoring extension usage statistics
        • Accessing the statistics dashboard
        • Tracking external sources
        • Add-on listing example
      • Resources for publishers
      • Retiring your extension
        • Reasons for withdrawing your extension
        • Steps to retiring an extension
        • Suggested retirement timetable
    • Enterprise
      • Developing your enterprise extension
      • Distributing your enterprise extension
      Enterprise support
      • Manage add-ons for Firefox for Enterprise
      • Install system add-ons for Firefox for Enterprise
      Enterprise resources
      • Enterprise development
        • Data collection disclosure and consent for enterprise extensions
        • How to add policy support
        • Distributing your policy
      • Enterprise policies that impact extensions
        • Relevant policies
        • Other relevant policies
      • Enterprise distribution
        • Signed vs. unsigned extensions
        • Using an ExtensionSettings policy
        • Bundling add-ons with a custom Firefox
    • Themes
      Creating themes
      • Using the AMO theme generator
        • Getting started
        • Submitting your theme
        • Updating your theme
      • Static themes
        • Introduction
        • Create a simple static theme
        • Updating static themes
        • Single image themes
        • Multiple image themes
        • Static animated themes
      • Dynamic themes
        • Introduction
        • Creating dynamic themes
        • Publishing dynamic themes
      • Cross-browser compatibility
  • Community
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    • Find or create a bug
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