Firefox will support the import of Chrome extensions, which is actually downloading the corresponding Firefox version

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen Coje_He for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com message on August 24, generally speaking, when browsers migrate, it is impossible to transfer extensions directly, which virtually increases the cost of changing browsers. To this end, Mozilla implements the ability to import extensions from other browsers in the Firefox Firefox middleware.

According to ghacks, this feature is currently being tested and can be enabled by all users of the latest stable version of Firefox. CTOnews.com is equipped with a method to enable it:

Enter about:config in the browser's address bar and enter.

Search for browser.migrate.chrome.extensions.enabled and set the feature to True.

Restart Firefox.

When enabled, the user can load about:preferences#general in the Firefox menu > Settings > Import data (button), or in the browser's address bar, and then activate the Import data button on the page. The user can select Chrome from the list, expand the available import options, and ensure that the extension is selected.

▲ drawing source ghacks, although Firefox and Chrome use extensions to the same framework, they cannot actually be installed interactively. Therefore, instead of importing the Chrome extension directly, Firefox installs the Firefox version of the extension from Mozilla's own extension store.

In other words, Mozilla needs to correspond to the corresponding extensions one by one, so this is a huge workload, currently can only adapt to some commonly used extensions.

Another disadvantage of this solution is that the extended data cannot be imported together, and the user needs to reset it manually. However, for most extensions that do not need to be set up, direct import can be used.