Turn XPI add-ons into TAR.GZ. It is converted in your browser, so the file never leaves your device.
Drop XPI files here
or choose from your computer paste with Ctrl V
from Photos or Files
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Drop XPI files onto the box above, or click it to choose them. ToAny reads the file's contents to detect the type, so a wrong extension does not matter.
Press Convert. There is nothing else to set. The work happens in this tab.
Save the TAR.GZ, or download everything as one ZIP if you converted several files.
The XPI to TAR.GZ converter is part of this page and runs inside your browser. Your add-ons are never sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
Nothing has to travel to a server and back, so the conversion starts the moment you press Convert, even on a slow connection.
No sign-up, no email address and no watermark. Add several files and download them together as a ZIP.
XPI is a Firefox add-on package that other programs do not install. TAR.GZ is the standard archive on Linux and for source code. XPI is at home in installing Firefox add-ons; TAR.GZ is the usual choice for source code and server backups.
A password-protected archive is refused, since its contents cannot be read without the password. An XPI is a ZIP archive with a signature. The files inside are repacked unchanged, but the new TAR.GZ is no longer signed, so it will not install.
An XPI, pronounced "zippy", is a Firefox or Thunderbird add-on: a ZIP archive holding a manifest, scripts, styles and images. Unpacking one is a quick way to see what an extension does.
Opens in Firefox (to install it) and any ZIP tool (to look inside)
XPI converterA .tar.gz (or .tgz) is a TAR archive compressed with gzip. It is the standard way software source code and Linux backups are distributed.
Opens in macOS, Linux and recent Windows; 7-Zip elsewhere
TAR.GZ converter| XPIFirefox extension | TAR.GZGzipped TAR archive | |
|---|---|---|
| Stands for | Cross-Platform Install | Gzip-compressed TAR |
| Type | ZIP-based package | Compressed archive |
| Compression | Lossless (Deflate, as in ZIP) | Lossless (Deflate) |
| Introduced | Around 2000, by Mozilla | 1992, by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler (gzip) |
| Opens in | Firefox (to install it) and any ZIP tool (to look inside) | macOS, Linux and recent Windows; 7-Zip elsewhere |
| Best for | Installing Firefox add-ons | Source code and server backups |
| File extension | .xpi | .tar.gz, .tgz, .tpz |
No. The XPI to TAR.GZ conversion runs inside your browser, on your own phone or computer. The file is not sent to ToAny or to anyone else.
No. The files inside are repackaged unchanged.
Yes. Add as many as you like, convert them together and download each result or all of them as one ZIP.
The steps are the same everywhere because ToAny runs in the web browser: open this page in a current version of Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, add the XPI file, press Convert and save the TAR.GZ. There is nothing to install.
Yes. An archive can be up to 500 MB, unpack to at most 1 GB and hold up to 50,000 files; beyond those limits the page says so. Beyond that the limit is your device's memory, since nothing is uploaded; a computer copes with large files better than a phone.