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My add-on is public, and people seem to love it. How can I get in the list of recommended add-ons?

If you believe that your add-on is a shining example of the power of add-ons, that it demonstrates and furthers Mozilla's values for the extensible and user-controlled web, and that it provides a great user experience, you can ask to have it considered for addition to the list of recommended add-ons. To do this, you should send an email to amo-editors@mozilla.org explaining why your add-on is great.

Your mail should include at least information about these things:

• how the web experience is improved for users


• how your add-on is appropriate for a large portion of Firefox's users


• how your add-on demonstrates and/or serves the values of the Mozilla project, especially with respect to putting the user in charge, protection of privacy and security, universal access to the web, and open standards and data


• how your add-on differs from other similar add-ons (in ways that are both better and worse)


• what reaction you've seen from users, reviewers, bloggers, astronauts, or your household pets, both positive and negative

The more complete the information you provide in your request the more amenable we are likely to be to granting it, though even a wonderfully-written and exhaustive application is no guarantee of placement in the recommended list.

Create a new profile

In order to create a new profile, you use the Profile Manager. To start the Profile Manager in Windows,
follow these steps:

1. Close Firefox completely (select File > Exit
   from the main menu of Firefox).


2. Select Start > Run... from the Windows Start menu.


3. Enter firefox.exe -ProfileManager and press OK.

On Linux or Mac, start Firefox with the
-ProfileManager switch, e.g. ./firefox -ProfileManager (this assumes that you're in the firefox directory).

You should now see the Profile Manager window, shown in the screenshot to the right.

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