Mozilla/web-ext: A command line tool to help build, run, and test web extensions
In my opinion, Firefox imposes complex constraints on casual developers, and web-ext is part of it.<p>I have a few web extensions I wrote in order to customize a few web sites (automate tasks, alter display, etc). After a Firefox update, they were not allowed anymore, because they're not signed. The extensions page cannot load local extensions. Then I discovered the secret debug-extensions page of Firefox where I could load them.<p>Unfortunately, Firefox removes local extension when it closes. I had the choice between loading each local extension after launching a new Firefox, which mean a dozen of clicks, or installing web-ext in order to sign my extensions, and sign them again after each change (no idea if there were extra actions needed in the process, like manual reload). I opted for a much simple option: with Chromium-based browsers, you can enable the extension-developer mode, and then you're allowed to load local extensions from the normal extensions page. Extensions are kept across restarts.