Opera Proposes NEX Packaging Format For Browser Extensions, Hopes To Make It A Web Standard

Opera today detailed a proposal for NEX, the Navigator Extension format, a new vendor-neutral browser extension packaging format that it hopes to turn into a future W3C standard for packaging cross-browser, add-on development. Currently, Chromium-based browsers use Google’s CRX format for delivering browser extensions. Opera, which recently switched to Chromium, says it developed NEX to [...] Opera Proposes NEX Packaging Format For Browser Extensions, Hopes To Make It A Web Standard | www.limit.ws