I found confirmation by the original developer of the extension that the listing has been taken over by Apple, with the implication that the newly renamed iCloud Passwords extension is theirs and official!
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I don’t use iCloud Passwords, but I don’t see any confirmation at the link you suggested that Apple is involved and I would be very wary about letting any 3rd party app access a password vault.
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If you go to iCloud Passwords – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) you’ll see that the extension is being developed by “Apple Inc.”; a developer with one other extension, whose history goes back to at least 2017.
If that was an imposter, they would probably have been caught by now?
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Definitely reasonable, I had the same concerns. I’m just reassured by the idea that (hopefully) Mozilla would not allow another company to list itself as Apple Inc., and by this thread where the original extension dev explained what would be happening in advance, and shared a screenshot of a Mozilla rep explaining the takeover.
Also kinda funny that the original dev is on Reddit criticizing the code 
But of course the safest course of action would be to wait for an official announcement from Apple.
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The original dev, of the code Apple took over, asked Apple to sponsor them with $1 on GitHub – and they never answered…
I hope something else comes out of this – if not, that’s pretty cheap (from the famously cash-strapped company).
Sweet Safari (iCloud Private Relay) and Proton Pass is blocked at my school district.
Side tangent - I wish Apple threw Mozilla a bone and let them use Gecko on iOS. Come up with some convoluted rule that browsers that have under 20% market share can use their own engine. All in favor of keeping Chromium banned the iOS ban has remained a firewall against 95% dominance.
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Listened to Connecteds comment on this. Apparently I am one of the 4 that uses Firefox.
Safari is my default, but on MacOS I use firefox as a secondary browser for extensions because I hate Chrome which gives Google the ability to gather behavioural data. I also use Opera as it has a built in VPN which comes in handy occasionally.
The extension is from Apple. There are a lot of reports. Even from a German Windows website with the report that it is Mac only and not available for Firefox on Windows.
An English speaking report:
Im assuming the Windows/Firefox one will come later. Apple notoriously drags their feet on cross platform products. There is still no Apple TV app for Android mobile.