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
Hello Add-on Developers! We’ve constructed a brief survey to gather feedback about your interactions with the Add-ons SDK. Specifically, we want to understand the experiences you’ve had with the APIs thus far, so be sure to choose the an API for your answers that is either the most crucial to your development efforts or that… Continue reading
Dogfooding is an essential part of product development for many reasons and should not be a task set aside for only certain teams. Dogfooding products helps you understand the true user experience a product offers, brainstorm new features, and uncover rough edges in need of correction. Recently while using the Add-ons SDK for a Personas… Continue reading
Personas continues to be a smash hit among Firefox users and boasts a vibrant community of users, artists, and reviewers with over 200,000 personas to choose from. That said, we should continue to explore ways to enhance Personas together as a community. “Should we add it?” posts like this one, will give us an opportunity… Continue reading
Recently the fifth alpha version of the new web-based Add-ons Builder was released for public use at builder.mozillalabs.com. There are a few notable enhancements in this latest alpha – syntax highlighting was added to our build of Skywriter (the Mozilla code editor formerly called Bespin) and multiple versions of the Add-ons SDK are now available… Continue reading
The release of the Mozilla Add-ons SDK 0.7 brings with it many useful APIs developers can leverage to create an even wider variety of Firefox add-ons without touching a single line of code from the underlying Mozilla platform. Notable APIs from 0.7 include Clipboard, Notifications, and the topic of this post, the Panel API. The… Continue reading
FUDCon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) conferences are events the Fedora community holds around the world featuring numerous talks and workshops focused on the Fedora project. The conferences provide attendees and the community an opportunity to highlight key contributions in the FLOSS space. This year, I received an invitation to FUDCon in Santiago Chile on… Continue reading
With the deprecation of the Jetpack prototype in favor of the new Mozilla Add-ons SDK, it is time that the Jetpack Gallery take its final flight into the sunset. All add-ons developed with the Mozilla Add-ons SDK can be conveniently hosted on addons.mozilla.org. We invite anyone who developed an add-on with the Jetpack prototype to… Continue reading
During Mozilla Summit last week, we held a contest for all attendees aimed at getting them involved in developing add-ons with the Mozilla Add-ons SDK. We had 17 entries from 15 developers and selected winners in the categories of Useful, Creative, and Fun. Here are the three winning add-ons: Most Useful – Copy ShortURL Author:… Continue reading
