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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by

      I am also facing this issue, I had submitted my add-on on Oct 30 and it's still awaiting moderation(Today is Nov 21). Can anyone please tell me when can I expect the approval of my add-on?

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      • A Former User
        A Former User last edited by

        I'm waiting since 3 months now, submitted it at 11.09.17
        How long does this take? At Mozilla my Addon was approved and published within 24 hours.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          The process s truly unbearable!

          Perhaps Opera could adopt FF/MZ webext base?

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          • A Former User
            A Former User last edited by

            Hi, about 3 three weeks waiting for the check my add-on ID: mecgepimehgjdcpfgolgbklmaafhkeoc
            https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/keywords/

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            • haterapps
              haterapps last edited by

              Oh, that's nothing. My last approval was on June 2017.

              Fast forward till February 2018, still no answer for any of the last 5 submissions.

              I don't know how Opera selects the reviewers, but it's doing a very bad job at managing this situation. My only explanation is that even reviewers are not motivated at all to continue doing this.

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              • A Former User
                A Former User @haterapps last edited by

                If I didn't know better, one would think this was M$ the topic was about.

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User last edited by

                  same issue here 😞
                  i've been waiting since Jan 20 2018.

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                  • A Former User
                    A Former User last edited by

                    We have same issue with our addon WebRTC Leak Shield, which is a very basic extension. We have been waiting for over 1,5 month now. We got same extension enabled by Chrome Webstore AND Mozilla AMO in few minutes.
                    The thing is that this is not even our main extension. We have another VPN extension which has over 1,5 millions users on Chrome and Firefox, we would like to publish also for Opera. But seeing that such a basic extension needs a review time of over 1 month is insane. Our main extension depends on this extension and has more code. We are afraid that this will take over a year to get enabled. Can you guys please at least give a short feedback about the review time to be expected.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User last edited by

                      A method to get addons improved faster is to not include funky and shady code in them!

                      Other than that yes the proval rate needs to fasten up.

                      All best addons are created for FF - and things such is this slow down doesn't do much to support folks at FF Addons to make them OPR compatible.

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                      • A Former User
                        A Former User last edited by

                        Same problem here. It's very disappointing to say the least, i am waiting about 2 months with absolutely no feedback whatsoever, Ridiculous. The same extension that i'm submitting is already on chrome and firefox stores. Frustrating.

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                        • nerradia
                          nerradia last edited by

                          Uploaded an animated background on October 2017, and still not a single sign of life 😞

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                          • rejzor
                            rejzor last edited by

                            I've made a simple button that opens Opera Flags menu. Sent it on 14th February and still waiting for approval. 😕 I'm not sure what exactly it's to check in it. It literally has like 5 lines of code and some icons lol...

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                            • A Former User
                              A Former User last edited by

                              I was submit first version of my extension 5 month ago, and it's still "awaiting of moderation"! Without any feedback at all! If it has some issues, why you don't give any feedback? I am very dissapointed in your support service.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                It's really weird, submitted an extension on Feb 13, since no any reply...

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                                • rejzor
                                  rejzor last edited by

                                  I sent mine 14 days ago. It's literally a simple button that even a hamster could verify to be clean. Still not verified and listed. What kind of joke is this? No wonder Opera just doesn't get more market share when extensions ecosystem which is one of the most important things is such a joke. get your act together Opera.

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                                  • haterapps
                                    haterapps last edited by

                                    It's more frustrating when you see popular extensions in the store that were updated very recently, few days ago. For a second it makes me think that they have higher priority, regardless of who was first in the approval queue.

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      My extension was submitted on the Sept. 11th and is still not reviewed ? What happens with Opera ?
                                      Are you kidding us ... ?

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        We have submitted our extension for moderation review on Feb 16, 2018 and is not yet reviewed. When can we expect it to be reviewed?

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User @Guest last edited by

                                          @jonathandekhtiar
                                          You'd be better off submitting again.

                                          Opera goes through the code more promptly than for example Google. That's why there are viruses and malware on Chrome Web Store.

                                          If only Firefox (webext) would work in Opera. Though some do but there's still tiny differences so can't be taken as face value like in CWS.

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                                          • rejzor
                                            rejzor last edited by

                                            So, I sent a message to "moderators" why it is taking so long and the reply was "Extension cannot consist of only button pointing to webpage or URL". Since when is access to Opera Flags SETTINGS a webpage? Is it my fault that Opera uses internal URL addresses to access own settings? What a joke. No wonder people just don't bother making extensions for Opera if this is the policy they are rocking...

                                            I've created this extension because I access Opera Flags regularly and having direct access to it from extensions toolbar is super convenient. But nope, can't have that or share it with others who might happen to fiddle with it often as well and would find it convention. And being a settings page to which there is NO button in existence but you have to manually input the settings address, I frankly really don't see a reason why it shouldn't be allowed to the extensions page.

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