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Shivanshu Goyal
Shivanshu Goyal

Reputation: 530

How to restrict access to my firefox addon published on addons.mozilla.org

I developed an addon for firefox which I want to distribute among my group. I don't want to make it visible to everyone. How can I put that restriction for my published addon.

I did the same for chrome extension where my listed emails can install my chrome extension only.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 114

Answers (1)

Xan
Xan

Reputation: 77571

Such an option is not available for extensions listed on AMO. It's either available for everyone or not at all.

Unlike CWS, with Firefox you can opt to self-distribute the extension (AMO will only do the signing, hosting and updating is on you), and then how you control access is up to you.

However, once someone has the XPI file, they can share it with anyone. This is technically true of Chrome extensions as well: once installed, they can be ripped and shared.

If you truly need to limit functionality for non-members, the only way is to offload some non-trivial part of the program to a server that requires access credentials.

Upvotes: 1

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