Just when you thought the SDK couldn’t get any better, we’ve rolled a new release! On behalf of the Jetpack team and various community contributors, I’m very happy to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.8! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. This new version includes a variety of… Continue reading
Update: The winners have been chosen! Thank you to everyone who participated in the Favorite Add-ons Contest and shared your amazing stories. We received over 2,000 entries during the contest period! What’s Next? Our panel of judges will review the entries and select 10 finalists by July 4th. The AMO community will then cast their… Continue reading
Firefox 14 has been in beta for a while now, so this blog post is a bit overdue. Here’s an almost comprehensive list of the changes that went into Firefox 14 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox 14 for Developers, so you should read that too. General Implement new… Continue reading
I happened to be looking at the github tags page for the SDK just now and realized that it has been exactly one year to the day since the Jetpack project released SDK 1.0! The exact git change is here. I pulled some quick stats from github in the tag range of 1.0 -> 1.8rc2,… Continue reading
Project News It starts! Yesterday we landed the commonJS module loader land from the SDK on Mozilla Central!! This is a big first step in the process to ship the SDK loader and apis in Firefox. Alexandre Poirot has made great progress with the development of a re-packing script for older SDK-based add-ons to the… Continue reading
Some Firefox users on Windows Vista and Windows 7 are experiencing problems when viewing videos in Adobe Flash Player 11.3, released on June 8, 2012. Firefox and/or Flash Player may crash or not load videos using Flash Player, or videos may not display correctly. Adobe and Mozilla are working closely to diagnose and address these… Continue reading
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 Most nominations for full review are taking less than 2 weeks to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 2 weeks. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Project News If you’re an Add-on author with add-ons on AMO that have been packed with SDK versions lower than SDK 1.6.1, please re-pack and re-submit your add-ons! We rolled SDK 1.8rc1 for testing today, and would love it if you could give it a spin, kick the tires, etc. Last week’s add-ons group meetup… Continue reading
