Firefox add-on developers may roll back all users to earlier versions of their extens

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For many users, a key feature of web browsers is the ability to install add-ons. These extensions improve browsing in meaningful ways, from blocking unwanted content over making downloads more user-friendly, to modifying certain aspects of websites.

Sometimes, however, add-on updates may introduce problems of their own. Developers needed to release an update to address the issue in the past, which sometimes, was delayed because of Mozilla's review processes. Even the most popular developers, like Raymond Hill, who creates the uBlock Origin and uBlock Origin Lite extensions, have faced issues with that review process.

Soon, developers of Firefox extensions have another option to deal with issues in the most recent version of their add-ons.

Mozilla announced the ability for developers to roll back to a previous version of their extension. The main idea behind the feature is to speed up the troubleshooting and reduce issues that users of the extension may encounter.

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