# Paperpile for Firefox Quantum

**URL:** <https://forum.paperpile.com/t/paperpile-for-firefox-quantum/2508>\
**Category:** Feature requests\
**Created:** [December 8, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/paperpile-for-firefox-quantum/2508 "2017-12-08T05:14:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![omyrxx](https://forum.paperpile.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/o/d78d45/32.png) [@omyrxx](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/omyrxx)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2017, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/paperpile-for-firefox-quantum/2508/1 "2017-12-08T05:14:37Z")

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New released Firefox Quantum is compatible to many Chrome extensions, which means Paperpile can potentially be used on Firefox Quantum.

I upload “Paperpile.crx” onto Firefox, and passed compatibility testing. But a problem occurs, making this extension cannot be directly used in Firefox.

Firefox told:“This file is not binary and is too large to parse. Files larger than  
4MB will not be parsed. If your JavaScript file has a large list,  
consider removing the list and loading it as a separate JSON file  
instead.”

I’m wondering whether someone can offer the help to modify the original crx file, so that it can be installed on Firefox. That will greatly attract more Firefox fans to test and eventually use Paperpile for Firefox.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![stefan](https://forum.paperpile.com/user_avatar/forum.paperpile.com/stefan/32/1729_2.png) [@stefan](https://forum.paperpile.com/u/stefan)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.paperpile.com/t/paperpile-for-firefox-quantum/2508/2 "2017-12-17T08:52:09Z")

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Please have a look at the main thread on this topic:

> [@Paperpile for Firefox](http://forum.paperpile.com/t/paperpile-for-firefox/115/11):
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> Here’s an update on Firefox support: When we started (around 2013) it was pretty clear that we did not want to create a Firefox extension based on XUL (which is now obsolete) That was the right decision as we would have wasted important resources early on for technology without a future. During the following years the situation and future of Firefox was unclear. Although from a technological point of view things are more stable now the situation is still unclear. The product is good, there is …

Paperpile is a complex app, unfortunately you cannot port it to a different browser by “repackaging” it. It uses many features not available or very different on Firefox.