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Actually, I think Opera has the same policy as Mozilla. If you reply to the reviewers (who are very responsive), they seem to let you minify as long as you show them the unminified sources.

Our extension (https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/disconnect/) uses the minified versions of seven libraries, which are about half the size of the unminified versions. Why not give users a better experience by shaving a few seconds off the install time?

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The blog post has been updated, and it seems Opera replied to that effect as well:

> Hi as I written before "We must be able to review the code in a reasonable manner", you can upload somewhere your not-minified code and give us a link to it, write what library are you using to minify and write a command which will minify your package. As fast as we read your code we will publish your extension.

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