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 We managed to empty the queues! Most nominations for full review are taking less than 3 days to review. Most updates are being reviewed within… Continue reading
Project News The Jetpack team met up last week in Mountain View. We talked about the roadmap for 2012, especially the following features: mobile support: how to make the make the experience of developing add-ons for Firefox Mobile as good as we can UI modifications: how we can give add-on developers more control of their… Continue reading
Just over a week ago, Mozilla’s memory team discovered major leaks caused by the McAfee SiteAdvisor 3.4.1 add-on. A bug was filed, and six days later the McAfee team released version 3.4.1.195, which fixed the major leaks. The Add-ons Team generally will not block legitimate add-ons without consulting with their developers first and giving them… Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who attended the Add-ons meetup in San Francisco on Tuesday! If you missed the event, you can find a recording of it here: http://vid.ly/7a6y5v and photos here: http://bit.ly/ApqXyZ Special thanks to our volunteer presenters Mark Cramer, Sharon Minsuk, and Fritz Mueller! If you are interested in attending a future meetup, please join… Continue reading
Yesterday the Jetpack project released SDK 1.5. Alongside this Dave Mason pointed out that the upcoming release of Firefox 11 will break compatibility with add-ons packaged with SDK versions 1.3 and below. This is necessary because of a change in Firefox where nsIDOMNSElement was removed ( Jorge recently mentioned this in his compatibility post ).… Continue reading
After a year in incubation we’re ready to remove the beta tag from the Add-on Builder! For those of you who are unfamiliar with this fantastic tool, Add-on Builder is an online development environment that allows developers with knowledge of HTML, JavaScipt and CSS to rapidly create add-ons for Firefox using the Mozilla Add-on SDK.… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK version 1.5! This version of the SDK has two major new features as well as many smaller ones and some important bug fixes. The two most important new features of this release are: Mobile Support! – Developers can now start developing add-ons for… Continue reading
The ability of developers using the SDK to get chrome authority and access xpcom services is a key feature. The SDK was designed from the start with the assumption that some developers will always need access to the underlying Mozilla platform. While xpcom is the main way to access low level apis, a lot of… Continue reading
Thanks to the tireless efforts of the AMO Editors group, we have reached an important milestone that hasn’t been reached in years (or ever, probably). All add-on review queues are currently empty. This means that if you submit your add-on now or in the following days, chances are it will be reviewed within a few… Continue reading
The Add-ons meetup in San Francisco is less than a week away, so be sure to RSVP if you haven’t already. If you’re interested in seeing how easy it is to create add-ons for Firefox with Add-on Builder and the Add-on SDK but can’t make the event, we are broadcasting it on Air Mozilla from… Continue reading
