Firefox add-ons
Screenshot of Mozilla Add-ons website
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Type of site
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Extensions and themes hosting |
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| Owner | Mozilla Foundation |
| Created by | Andy McKay, Chris Howse, Gregory Koberger, Jeff Balogh, Jorge Villalobos (jorgev), Justin Scott (fligtar), Kumar McMillan, Matt Claypotch, Stephen Donner, Wil Clouser, et al. |
| Website | addons |
| Commercial | No |
| Registration | Free; only needed for developers or for special features |
| Current status | Active |
Mozilla add-ons are installable enhancements to the Mozilla Foundation's projects, including Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and Sunbird. Add-ons allow the user to add or augment application features, use themes to their liking, and handle new types of content.
There are three major categories of add-ons: "Extensions", "Themes", and "Plugins". The main repository for distributing the first two type is the eponymous Mozilla Add-ons website.
There are several types of add-ons:
The eponymous Mozilla Add-ons website is the official Mozilla Foundation repository for add-ons of Mozilla software, including Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and Mozilla Sunbird. These add-ons include Mozilla extensions and personas, but not Mozilla plug-ins.
In contrast to mozdev.org which provides free hosting for Mozilla-related projects, Mozilla Add-ons is targeted to end-users, not just software developers. Many Mozilla applications contain direct links to the website, and contain settings to poll for updates to the extensions and the application itself. Firefox 3 includes features for retrieving and displaying content from the website in the add-ons manager.
On January 30, 2008, it was announced that over 600 million add-ons had been downloaded from the site and that over 100 million add-ons automatically check the site for updates every day.
On July 26, 2012, Mozilla announced that 3 billion add-ons were downloaded from the site.
Formerly, Mozilla Add-ons was known as Mozilla Update (or UMO, as the hostname was update.mozilla.org). The site underwent several changes between its launch and when it became the AMO.
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