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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

There's a common specification called WebExtension, which is used by all modern browsers. Firefox had their own API (XUL/XPCOM) before that, but they deprecated it in 2017. Safari also used to have its own system for extensions, but it's been deprecated since 2019. The Manifest API is a subset of WebExtension, which defines an extension.