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I really like using the Omnibear for on Chrome. The problem is, I don’t like using Chrome and only use it on my mini-Chromebook.

I’m not a coder and so I’m a bit unclear on the legality and etiquette but is there anything stopping someone forking the Firefox Omnibear plugin and re-adding it to the Firefox Add-on store? Would contacting the developer be a better way of approaching this?

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  1. > > don’t know omnibear but the GitHub repo has an MIT license which is pretty permissive. so legally, you could, but I’m guessing there’s some reason support has been dropped! couldn’t you just install it locally from source and load it as an extension… pauho.net/?p=24428

  2. don’t know omnibear but the GitHub repo has an MIT license which is pretty permissive. so legally, you could, but I’m guessing there’s some reason support has been dropped! couldn’t you just install it locally from source and load it as an extension in Firefox?