Yes you can now convert Firefox browser to use Google Chrome or opera extensions, as Mozilla Firefox recently launched new feature that will allow extensions specifically designed for Chrome and Opera to be used on Firefox browser.
Mozilla stated in its site that it is implementing a new extension API, called WebExtension largely compatible with the model used by Chrome and Opera to make it easier to develop extensions across multiple browsers. For browser add-on developers, this will surely be a welcome development, knowing that they can easily built tools that are now compatible to many platform, thus a kind of lessening the burden of developing different but similar tools for each browser.
Though users will not be able to directly install the Chrome extension via Chrome store but will need to be verified by Mozilla and have the extension added through the official Firefox extension page. And the like of Microsoft new Edge browser is also likely to get similar support in the event that it starts supporting extensions.
Then for
existing add-ons, you need to make some adjustments before you can use then on
Firefox. Finally,
since this is still a new development, we expect this latest Firefox feature to
be rolled outto the public gradually in the coming weeks.
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