It’s hard to believe, but we are about to reach the 2 Billion download milestone for add-ons this week! We would like to commemorate this special occasion by asking you, the add-ons community, to let us know your favorite add-ons so we can add them to the Best of 2B Add-ons Collection. We’ll be adding… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is excited to announce the launch of Jetpack SDK 0.5. This latest release offers more APIs for you to build add-ons with. For instance, one of the new APIs enables you to access tab information and control tab-related actions, e.g. opening/closing tabs. The new APIs in Jetpack SDK are: Tabs API –… Continue reading
We’re less than one week away from the Mozilla Add-ons Workshop, happening in London! We’ve planned a jam-packed evening with Mozilla evangelists, developers, and community members talking about: Firefox Add-ons: Adventures in Customization Making Add-ons that People will Love Using Jetpack to Build Add-ons Lightning Talks from Add-on Developers Mobile Add-ons and HTML5 The Future… Continue reading
Summary These bi-weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this blog that should be read as a general guide about the review process. Most nominations are being reviewed within 7 days. Almost every update is… Continue reading
Mozilla is fighting poor performance in Firefox on many fronts. Firefox 3.6 was already a significant improvement over 3.5, and Firefox 4 promises to be lightning fast. However, Firefox is already pretty fast. Seriously. If you download and install Firefox and run it on a clean profile, it should open quickly and be very responsive.… Continue reading
Are you an extension or application developer? Have you written any XPCOM components, JS, binary or otherwise? If not you can probably ignore the rest of this post, unless you are interested anyway. If you do then you might be interested to hear that your components are probably going to break in an upcoming Firefox… Continue reading
Reviewing add-ons is a complicated task, and we haven’t been very good at documenting the whole process. New editors were trained live through IRC, and the training session usually took the better part of 2 hours. Even though I am pretty much the only person training new editors, it is very difficult to convey the… Continue reading
If you have free time to test the new add-ons manager, Henrik Skupin from the Mozilla QA team would like to invite you to this Friday’s testday: Henrik Skupin’s Blog
Summary These bi-weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this blog that should be read as a general guide about the review process. Most nominations are being reviewed within 9 days. Almost every update is… Continue reading
AMO 5.11 was released this afternoon with a number of new pages now being served from our Django rewrite. A list of notable changes is below. Update Notes Category pages are now served from our Django rewrite (zamboni) and include touched-up designs and the new install buttons. We hope to serve these new pages for… Continue reading
