Why "experimental"?

[hashimaziz1]

Firstly, I love the name!

This is maybe more of a question about Firefox's add-ons platform, but I couldn't find a definitive answer from Mozilla, so what exactly does the "Experimental" on Dormancy's extension page mean? Why, for example, are other extensions that seem to function in the same way not labelled as experimental?

Thanks in advance.

[autonome]

Hm, honestly I can't remember. Maybe it's a setting when I first uploaded the extension? I know that there's a non-zero risk of dataloss with these APIs, so I do like having that warning... 😅

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On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 5:53 PM Kaos-Industries ***@***.***> wrote: Firstly, I love the name! This is maybe more of a question about Firefox's add-ons platform, but I couldn't find a definitive answer from Mozilla, so what exactly does the "Experimental" on Dormancy's extension page <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dormancy/> mean? Why, for example, are other extensions <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/> that seem to function in the same way not labelled as experimental? Thanks in advance. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#38>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AADDtxJb0U3YydZ-z1aY3qkLse8k0zw2ks5vG7UEgaJpZM4aT7Hb> .

[hashimaziz1]

Hm, honestly I can't remember. Maybe it's a setting when I first uploaded the extension? I know that there's a non-zero risk of dataloss with these APIs, so I do like having that warning... sweat_smile
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On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 5:53 PM Kaos-Industries @.***> wrote: Firstly, I love the name! This is maybe more of a question about Firefox's add-ons platform, but I couldn't find a definitive answer from Mozilla, so what exactly does the "Experimental" on Dormancy's extension page https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dormancy/ mean? Why, for example, are other extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/ that seem to function in the same way not labelled as experimental? Thanks in advance. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#38>, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AADDtxJb0U3YydZ-z1aY3qkLse8k0zw2ks5vG7UEgaJpZM4aT7Hb .

So functionally it's the exact same? That's good to know, you should probably try and get that Experimental tag removed just to remove any ambiguity - for example, the Stack Exchange answer that led me to the product here claims it's "experimental" simply due to that tag being there.