Special notice: Thanks for all the great entries so far! Please note, you must submit your entry by following the steps under How to Enter. Reviews posted as a comment on this blog do not count as a valid entry. In 200 words or less, tell us how your favorite Firefox Add-on makes your day… Continue reading
Early last month, we asked for your help in choosing a new name for the Personas feature in Firefox. We’ve found that most users, even those who use Personas, don’t know them by that name, and new users can’t tell what a “Persona” is by its name. After a lot of thought, including consideration of… 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
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
If you’re in the Bay Area, we invite you to join us at our San Francisco office on Tuesday, February 21, for an evening of food, drinks and good company! Come and see how easy it is to create add-ons for Firefox with Add-on Builder and the Add-on SDK. If you’re a Web developer and… Continue reading
Firefox users love Personas. They’re a fun and easy way to customize Firefox and make it your own. But in talking with new users, we’ve learned that they are often confused by the name and don’t quite get that Personas are just another way to theme your browser. And more often than not, when a… 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
The new year is upon us, and it’s time to make a big push on the review queues! Between December 22, 2011 and February 22, 2012, AMO Editors are eligible to win some great prizes. Editors who review 100 or more add-ons during the contest period will advance to the final round, where a panel… Continue reading
Recently, you may have noticed an issue with the new AMO stats dashboard. When designing the new pages, we wanted to reduce the noise level from mislabeled or malformed data. This was especially necessary for our “Usage by Application” data, which contains many applications we do not recognize. To accomplish this, we filtered the raw… Continue reading
