Personas continues to be a smash hit among Firefox users and boasts a vibrant community of users, artists, and reviewers with over 200,000 personas to choose from. That said, we should continue to explore ways to enhance Personas together as a community. “Should we add it?” posts like this one, will give us an opportunity… Continue reading
Firefox for mobile (Fennec) is bumping its version numbering to more closely match desktop releases of Firefox. This means “Firefox 2.0b1 for Android & Maemo” is becoming “Firefox 4.0b1 for Android & Maemo” and will be released as “Firefox 4.0 for Android & Maemo”. We are aligning mobile Firefox and desktop Firefox since the web… Continue reading
Summary: We’re currently experiencing a problem with add-on download statistics on addons.mozilla.org in which downloads through our API (used by the Add-ons Manager in Firefox) are not being counted. No data has been lost and we will be repairing these counts soon. Technical Details: On September 14 we pushed an update to the site that… Continue reading
Jetpack SDK 0.8 is now available! This version of the SDK includes a number of enhancements and bug fixes, including: The new Windows API allows you to access and manipulate browser windows and their tabs. The new Page Mods API lets you inject JavaScript code into selected web pages. The Panel and Page Worker APIs… Continue reading
Recently the fifth alpha version of the new web-based Add-ons Builder was released for public use at builder.mozillalabs.com. There are a few notable enhancements in this latest alpha – syntax highlighting was added to our build of Skywriter (the Mozilla code editor formerly called Bespin) and multiple versions of the Add-ons SDK are now available… Continue reading
The next beta of Firefox 4 will include a change to how Firefox installs and uses extensions. Previously the files from the extension’s XPI would be extracted into their own directory in the filesystem and read from there, now the default is to just keep the XPI and load files out of it directly. For… 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 1 week. Almost every update is… Continue reading
It’s been just over a year since we introduced Add-on Collections, a way for anyone to create and share groups of add-ons for Firefox. Today we’re very excited to launch a major update to our add-ons gallery that makes it even easier to spot, save, and share your favorite add-ons. A video tour of the… Continue reading
The release of the Mozilla Add-ons SDK 0.7 brings with it many useful APIs developers can leverage to create an even wider variety of Firefox add-ons without touching a single line of code from the underlying Mozilla platform. Notable APIs from 0.7 include Clipboard, Notifications, and the topic of this post, the Panel API. The… Continue reading
