Project News We released SDK 1.4 today which includes important new features including a new module loader implementation, as well as the simple-prefs module. Wladimir Palant blogged about measuring memory usage of SDK-based addons using some of the new memory reporter features. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 235 Bugs created last week: 17 Bugs fixed… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is proud to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.4! This version of the SDK has the most new features of all the releases we have made since the 1.0 release. Some of the new features include: – Thanks to community members Hernan Colmeiro and Erik Vold, we have a new Simple… Continue reading
All add-ons will be made compatible by default in the upcoming Firefox 10 release, so it’s crunch time for testing them in Beta, Aurora, and Nightly. With default compatibility, you can expect to see less of the incompatible add-ons dialog, and more of your add-ons should just work. If you are a Firefox developer, support… Continue reading
After receiving numerous reports from add-on developers about slight dips in their usage statistics, we discovered an issue yesterday with the log configuration of several servers. This issue has been corrected and statistics should return to normal beginning with today’s report. Unfortunately, active daily user statistics since December 16, 2011 are approximately 33% lower than… Continue reading
Project News Happy New Year! Matteo Ferretti recently landed initial mobile support for the page-mod module in pull request 301 Watch this space for additional posts on creating mobile addons with the SDK! Dietrich Ayala blogged about the Firefox Features effort, and the current plans for pushing this SDK-related project forward in 2012. We’re working… Continue reading
