Unable to submit to Edge: "error: The uploaded package consists of a compressed file."

[aiktb]

Describe the bug

Submissions could be submitted normally before January 15, 2024, but now Edge review has suddenly added the requirement that uploaded zip files are not allowed to contain compressed files.
The third-party library kuromoji.js used by this extension relies on some local *.dat.gz files. The gz files are compressed files, which prevents the extension from being submitted to Edge.

Reproduction

Unnecessary.

Expected behavior

Add a fork of kuromoji.js to upload to NPM and reference it in this project so that it accepts *.dat files instead of *.dat.gz files.

Browser

Chrome

System Info

No response

Additional context

Link to microsoft/MicrosoftEdge-Extensions#135

Validations

• Check if you're on the latest Furigana Maker version.
• Follow our Code of Conduct
• Check that there isn't already an issue that asks for the same feature to avoid creating a duplicate.
• Read the Contributing Guidelines.
• I would like to fix this BUG via a PR.

[aiktb]

This is a very serious issue, there is some kind of flaw in edge's review system and after 3 weeks of submitting v1.3.1 to edge I still haven't gotten any response, so I sent an email to ext_dev_support@microsoft.com asking about it and I got a response from them yesterday:

We just heard back from our team that they could not see any new submission and hence the review did not go through the system. Could you please resubmit your package and let us know, so we could expedite your submission?

This is really bad news, but there's more. First of all, edge can't submit new packages while there are expansion packages in review, so I have to "cancel the submission" first, which is not instant, and it seems like I'll have to wait for a few days for that, and even then there's no guarantee that resubmission will go smoothly after that.

Worst of all, the Chrome Web Store doesn't accept extension zips that contain more than 10MB of individual files when unzipped, and Furigana Maker is going to break that limit with this issue, which will make the extension packs incompatible with edge and chrome, and maintenance costs will go way up.

Between the above poor state of affairs, if Microsoft can't make a change to get this back on track, I'll probably stop maintaining the edge version.

[aiktb]

After 2+ months of email communication with Microsoft Edge Addons support, still nothing has changed ....

I'm disappointed and no longer interested in maintaining the Edge version of this extension, however due to their strange bugs I can't even Unpublish them now, in fact I can't do anything!

Edge is the worst platform for distributing browser extensions, extremely long review times, laggy Partner site, poor support.

This Issue may never be resolved as it's not up to me, it's up to Edge.

[aiktb]

Has been unpublished from edge addons!