Add-ons Update – Week of 2011/12/28
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues … Read more
Articles from December, 2011
AMO Outage
addons.mozilla.org is currently experiencing a network outage (starting around 10am Pacific). Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you can view the current status here. Thanks for your … Read more
AMO Editors New Year’s Challenge
See the winners of the challenge! The new year is upon us, and it’s time to make a big push on the review queues! Between December 22, 2011 and February … Read more
Introducing the Fast Track review queue
Since we overhauled our review process earlier this year, we have had three review queues: full review nominations, full review updates and preliminary reviews (nominations and updates in a single … Read more
Statistics Correction in Developer Dashboards
Recently, you may have noticed an issue with the new AMO stats dashboard. When designing the new pages, we wanted to reduce the noise level from mislabeled or malformed data. … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for Dec. 20th, 2011
Project News Firefox developer Tim Taubert blogged about an interesting technique for getting Firefox’s native websocket implementation working on IRC Cloud using an SDK-based add-on. Frustrated with debugging geolocation code? … Read more
AMO network issues
addons.mozilla.org and several other Mozilla services, including the Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview, are currently experiencing performance and availability issues. Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for Dec. 13th, 2011
Project News Louis Remi Babe wrote two excellent posts on working with content scripts in the SDK and using jQuery in content scripts. The simple-prefs API has landed on the … Read more
Help Test Default Compatibility for Add-ons on Aurora
The latest phase of our add-on compatibility plan has arrived in Aurora, and we need your help to test it! Since Firefox 4, we have been automatically making add-ons hosted … Read more