Announcing Add-on SDK 1.13.1
The Jetpack team would like to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.13.1, which addresses several issues: Reverted context menu items in sub-menus to display by default as they did … Read more
Articles from January, 2013
Per-Window Private Browsing and the SDK
Erik Vold has been working hard to implement support for Per-Window Private Browsing in the SDK, and he posted a summary of the work and how it will impact add-on … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2013/01/30
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. In case you … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for January 29, 2013
Project News We released SDK 1.13 today! Irakli wrote an interesting post ‘Isolate.js via AST analysis‘ that discusses a novel solution to the problem of passing JS code across compartment … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.13
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.13 today! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. As well, Add-on SDK 1.13 is now … Read more
Adobe Flash 10.2.* and lower are now Click-to-Play
As part of a larger effort to put users in control of their plugins, we have enabled Click-to-Play on old versions of the Adobe Flash Player plugin. For versions 10.2.* … Read more
Changes to “require()” syntax
In version 1.12 we changed the structure of the SDK, removing the idea of “packages” and relocating all the SDK’s modules under the “lib” directory. This changed, and greatly simplified, … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for January 22, 2013
Project News Much thanks to Mozillian Marc Chevrier for not only reporting but providing a patch for bug 829651. I love it when developers report into bugs with patches! Quick … Read more
Blocklisting malicious Codec add-ons
A group of malicious add-ons going by various names like Codec, Codec-C and Codec-M have been added to the add-on blocklist. This is a new type of block that covers … Read more