But Mozilla has changed that for Firefox with version 55. Note: However, in version 54, they’ll be displayed on about:support page under ‘Extensions’ along with user installed extensions. The troubleshooting information page from Firefox 55 version onwards displays system add-ons under ‘Firefox features’ section. To see all system add-ons your Firefox browser has installed, click on hamburger menu > Help> Troubleshooting information or visit ‘about:support’ page.
These won’t be visible in about:addons UI and can’t be disabled by user (read: You can’t disable System Add-ons in Firefox 50, however you can, we’ll tell that below) and can be updated by Mozilla. You can explore more about the tool on its official site or its GitHub page.To ship the features faster, Mozilla has followed Go faster process where they ship built-in features to Firefox via system add-ons. However, Mozilla gets access to the source code to review with every release, which makes it a recommended add-on to try. They clarified the reason as they do not want competitors to use the add-on and contribute nothing in return (more in their forum post). The server-side is open-source but unfortunately, the add-on is not open-source. Not just a privacy-focused, open-source alternative, it works super quickly without impacting your writing experience. As I write this, I have LanguageTool Firefox extension active. It should be good enough for basic spellcheck and common grammatical mistakes. It is free to use, with an optional premium upgrade for advanced correction features. LanguageTool is an open-source grammar and spellchecker that respects your privacy, making it a decent alternative to the likes of Grammarly and others. But, this is an exception as a non-foss add-on, where the service is originally open-source, but the extension is not. Note: For this list, we try to recommend Firefox add-ons that are totally open-source.
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