Firefox 17 was released yesterday, and there a couple of notable compatibility issues that have surfaced and are worth pointing out. Tab Mix Plus currently incompatible The popular Tab Mix Plus extension is causing some problems for users in Firefox 17. The problems include broken menu items – like the one that opens the Add-ons… Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.12RC1 ships today, there are just some documentation updates for it The Jetpack team’s joining the Developer Tools group: this is in line with our desire to use the SDK APIs to develop new Firefox features. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 421 Bugs created last week: 10 Bugs fixed last week: 12… Continue reading
Project News Half the team are in Singapore for Mozcamp Asia, where they’ll be talking about mobile development and adding Firefox features using the SDK. SDK 1.12b2 shipped today. This release contains a major reorganization of the code, which is a prerequisite for landing in Firefox. So we’d love for you to try it out… Continue reading
Firefox 17 will be released on November 20th. Here’s the list of changes that went into Firefox 17 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox 17 for Developers, so you should read that too. General Flip __exposedProps__ to default-safe. We have been talking about this upcoming change for a while.… 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 5 days. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Project News Jetpack engineer Eddy Bruel gave a talk recently at Amsterdam JS on his work on Spidermonkey and how the guts of the JS engine work. Eddy also recently blogged about his experiences as a C++ developer writing his first Firefox add-on with the Add-on SDK In the next couple of weeks members of… Continue reading
If you’ve looked through the documentation for Add-on SDK 1.11, you may have noticed that the page documenting the private-browsing module contains the following message: The activate and deactivate methods are now deprecated. They will continue to work until version 1.13 of the SDK. From version 1.13 onwards they will still exist but will have… Continue reading
As Wes mentioned in his post to the Jetpack Google Group, we have spun some test builds of SDK 1.12 Beta 1 ( available as a zip archive or a tarball ) and hope that people will take the time to test their existing add-on project with this new version. Testing your code with 1.12… Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.11 was released today – go get it! Ever wonder what the most popular SDK-based add-on is? By a large margin, the number one spot is ‘Easy Youtube Video Downloader‘ with over 2 million users! If you’re attending Mozcamp or are in the Singapore area on the evening of Nov 15th, Jetpack… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is terribly pleased to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.11. You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. What’s new? SDK 1.11 is the most significant release in recent memory, largely due to the enhancements we’ve made to the page-mod module. Page-mod is easily one of the… Continue reading
