Painfully slow firefox update approval times

[Lidbetter]

Hey,

Thanks for making the extension available on firefox. I understand that the slow update times are because the mozilla addon store does not immediately approve them for distribution.

While it is not your fault, it is still frustrating to have the extension broken for days/weeks while waiting on the mozilla addon store.

It should be possible to upload the xpi asset as part of the release process and generate the needed update manifest file (and host it on github pages [or some other solution to have it end up on repeek.gg])

https://extensionworkshop.com/documentation/manage/updating-your-extension/#enable-update

Is this something you could consider doing?

Thanks <3

[timche]

Thanks for sharing this! Trust me, this annoys me as much as it is for everyone else. I'll have a look into this and maybe go with it.

[Lidbetter]

If auto update isn't possible/will take a more time to do the way you want.

A good interim step would be to make the xpi available as part of the release action, this would mean I could manually update without needing to have node, npm, etc. installed on my windows machine to build it

[kyle0r]

👍 +1 for making the xpi available in releases - at least then users can manually install an update? I feel its a good workaround until something else more robust comes along. Is there somewhere I can read about why Mozilla addons are so slow in releasing updates, that seems like a step backwards? Feeling out-of-the-loop.

footnote: @timche thanks for creating and sharing your awesome extension ♥😊

[timche]

I understand your guys frustration. Reviews are being done by humans and it seems like they've a huge backlog every time I submit a new version. Therefore it takes much longer than on Chrome. Not much I can do about it on that side.

I'll look into the alternatives once I'm back from my holiday.

Thanks for your patience 🙏

[timche]

Good news: The latest version 3.1.16 just got approved and released on Firefox!