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alanmbyrne · 05-09-2025

Calling all Firefox extension developers! Hello, Alan here again - Product Manager working on Firefox extensions.  In a recent blog post I explained that we’re working to streamline the data consent experience for extensions. I’m pleased to announ...

alanmbyrne · 01-10-2025

Hello everyone, I’m Alan, a product manager working on Firefox extensions and add-ons. I wanted to kick off the new year by introducing myself and thanking everyone for their suggestions, comments, likes, and votes on Mozilla Connect. I would like to...

alanmbyrne · 05-21-2025

Yes, that is correct. The permissions and data collection permissions are separate so you can declare them in the way you suggest if you don't transmit data outside of the extension.

alanmbyrne · 05-16-2025

Thanks for your questions! 1. If you specify that the extension has no required data collection, the installation screen will show "The developer says this extension doesn't require data collection" 2. You can't use this in production yet, and addon...

alanmbyrne · 05-14-2025

Thanks for the feedback, I really appreciate it! To answer your questions. For existing enterprise extensions that collect data using 3rdparty, will the consent popup still appear during installation? I am not personally familiar with 3rdparty, but ...

alanmbyrne · 05-09-2025

That is an excellent question! "Collect" includes all data or information the add-on transmits outside of boundaries of the extension or the local browser, such as to an external web server or another program or process on the users computer.Processi...

alanmbyrne · 04-01-2025

Thanks everyone for engaging on this topic and for providing feedback. We have started development on the ability to hide/remove the button and it will be launching in Firefox in a few versions time. This won’t be the last of the improvements we plan...

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