Request to Increase Extension Upload File Size Limit

[Nick-1979]

Dear Firefox Development Team,

I am writing to inform you of an issue I encountered while attempting to update my extension on Firefox. Unfortunately, despite successfully updating the extension on Chrome and Edge with new features, I am currently unable to do the same on Firefox due to the existing file size limitation.

The error message states that the file size is too large to parse.

I kindly request that you consider increasing the file size limit for extension updates on Firefox. This adjustment would allow developers like me to provide the same enhanced functionality to Firefox users that is already available on other browsers.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. I greatly appreciate the efforts of the Firefox development team and hope for a positive resolution.

┆Issue is synchronized with this Jira Task

[diox]

Hi,

This has already been reported in #4748 for a specific case - tesseract.js.

We have to have some kind of limit to avoid abuse as parsing and analyzing submitted code is time consuming and costly as the size increases.

What limit would work in your case ?

[Nick-1979]

Hi @diox,

Thank you for responding.
I have read that issue before. In my situation, a file size of 15 MB is acceptable.

[diox]

I'm not opposed to a bump to 5 MB - there are several developers that it would benefit and it's been a while since we last increased that limit - but we need to make some internal architecture changes in our private scanners before considering this.

[Nick-1979]

Hello,

I would like to know if there is any progress on resolving this issue or any estimate on when we can update our extensions without encountering this problem.

Thank you for your hard work and attention.

[diox]

Hi,

Sorry for not answering sooner. This is still blocked on migrating infrastructure of our private scanners but we intend to unblock that in January (wanted to do this earlier but we ran into issues when migrating the bulk of AMO infrastructure that pushed this further and now it's too late, we're entering a code/infra freeze for end-of-year holidays). Once this is done and stable there should be no hard blockers left and we should be able to bump that limit.

[Nick-1979]

Hi @diox

I would appreciate it if you could provide an update on this matter.

Thank you!

[diox]

Hi,

Sorry, we're still tracking this, but the infrastructure changes are still in progress.