This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. -Arthur Dent, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Thursday is push day. It’s the day the AMO team gathers on IRC, figures out what’s going out and sets it loose on the world with the push of our Big Red… Continue reading
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s SDK 1.2 release, we have released Add-on SDK 1.2.1 to address a critical issue that surfaced in 1.2 which would have prevented add-ons from being distributed on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/. Thanks to community member Carey Tilden who reported this issue to the Jetpack mailing list! This issue occurs if you create… Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.2 Released! Blog posts: Security Mechanisms in the SDK & Planet Jetpack BETA SDK hack day coming to Mountain View November 19th. Register now! Development news: 1.3 is in stabilization, 1.4 is in development. Meeting Brief Builder re-pack changes pushed to production last Wed. Will re-pack add-ons for 1.2 SDK: need to… Continue reading
Hack the Browser! The Jetpack Project is excited to host an all-day hack fest on Saturday, November 19th at Mozilla’s offices in Mountain View. This all-day event is designed to get you hands-on experience using the Add-on SDK & the online Add-on Builder to create Firefox addons. The format of the day will be a… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is proud to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.2! This version of the SDK, like 1.1, contains mostly stability work and bug fixes. This release also includes: The ability to reload a tab via a new reload method in the tabs module The self module now contains a “name” and “version”… Continue reading
Firefox add-ons have powerful capabilities, including the ability to read and write the user’s file system, access the network, and access stored passwords. At the same time they interact directly with untrusted web content (that is, arbitrary web pages, and the scripts they load). If add-ons aren’t carefully designed, malicious web sites can exploit their… Continue reading
Last month at the all-hands someone ( Wes Kocher? ) suggested the idea of curating a list of feeds and posts specifically focused on the Jetpack project. I’ve been crazy busy since then but finally got around to deploying Planet Jetpack yesterday to my Linode box as a beta as I wait some more formal… Continue reading
Project News London Add-on Workshop SDK slides are posted. We’re running an end-of year add-on competition focusing on restartless addons. Meeting Brief Builder / re-pack scripts need more testing. SDK 1.2 RC1 to be released later today. L10n and Mobile support under active development, no hard time-lines for landing on trunk. Planning an all-day SDK… Continue reading
Firefox 9 was recently pushed to the Aurora channel, so it’s time again to round up all bugs that could be breaking add-on compatibility. This time around I found very few bugs that I would consider troubling, but there are plenty of minor ones worth mentioning. As usual, you should also check Firefox 9 for… Continue reading
With those summer days behind us and the days getting shorter, we’d like to brighten your days (that is – unless you’re in the southern hemisphere), by opening up another Featured add-ons competition for the end of the year! This season it’s all about Restartless add-ons. So, to be considered, your add-on must be Restartless… Continue reading
