The next beta of Firefox 4 will include a change to how Firefox installs and uses extensions. Previously the files from the extension’s XPI would be extracted into their own directory in the filesystem and read from there, now the default is to just keep the XPI and load files out of it directly. For… Continue reading
Are you an extension or application developer? Have you written any XPCOM components, JS, binary or otherwise? If not you can probably ignore the rest of this post, unless you are interested anyway. If you do then you might be interested to hear that your components are probably going to break in an upcoming Firefox… Continue reading
Reposted from my blog in order to spread the word: If you are an extension developer and include executable files in your XPI package (binary or shell scripts) then you may be seeing problems in Firefox 3.6. Back between Firefox 3.6 beta and Firefox 3.6 RC we took a small fix to the extension manager… Continue reading
I have been working with extensions and Firefox for 4 years and am now the lead developer for the add-ons manager in Firefox
