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title: "Is there a Mozilla Firefox API?"  
description: "Is there a Mozilla Firefox API?"  
author: "Austin Dcruz"  
published: 2022-02-07  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95586/is-there-a-mozilla-firefox-api  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["mozilla firefox", "api", "troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Is there a Mozilla Firefox API?

Is there a Mozilla Firefox [API](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13142/the-google-plus-social-api-integration)?

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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

**An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of features** and rules contained within a software program (the application) that allows interaction with it via software rather than a human user interface.

- [**Firefox**](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95598/how-do-i-change-my-browser-to-firefox) uses callbacks to implement these APIs under the chrome namespace. For the APIs detailed here, this allows code designed for Chrome to run virtually unchanged in Firefox.
- Extensions for Firefox are built utilizing the Web Extensions API cross-browser technology.
- To a considerable extent, Firefox's extension technology is compatible with the extension API used by Chromium-based browsers (such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Opera, Vivaldi)

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**Read More : [How do I tell which Mozilla Firefox I'm running?](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/95590/how-do-i-tell-which-mozilla-firefox-i-m-running)**


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