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Not really. I would prefer to keep my profile which has all my history, sessions etc instead of launching a new Firefox every time. Reloading extensions is really not that hard, especially with something like https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/extensions-reloade...


I'm sorry, but I seem to not understand how that extension is better than web-ext. web-ext reloads the extension automatically when it changes on disk, "Extensions Reloader" seems to require you to either click a button to reload, or setup your build system to redirect current browser session to "http://reload.extensions", both inferior solutions to just using web-ext.


Me too, in fact it has a —preserve-changes flag (or something like that) that combined with the -p flag let’s you have a profile just for development.




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