Project News Over the last couple of days I’ve published a couple of posts about the near future of the project as we land the SDK’s apis in Firefox: [part 1] & [part 2]. If you have any feedback on these posts, please comment there, below, or ideally post to the Google group. We took… Continue reading
In my last post I talked about the process currently underway to shift SDK development to match the Firefox release schedule. This work has taken up a ton of time over the last year or so, but most of the benefits to add-on developers are around unexciting things like compatibility and maintenance. Developers want new… Continue reading
Until now the SDK has been released every 6 weeks, 3 weeks offset from Firefox releases. We are breaking this established release schedule and switching to release the SDK’s APIs in Firefox itself, starting with Firefox 21. The process will be somewhat disruptive, in fact I’ve taken to calling it our awkward phase. I’d like… Continue reading
Project News Hot on the heels of last week’s 1.13.2 patch release, Add-on Builder and the AMO Validator have been updated to support this new version. If you haven’t already, please update your add-on to this new version! Alex posted the first in a series of posts about how to implement Web APIs using add-ons.… Continue reading
Project News We released Add-on SDK 1.13.2 earlier today to address a number of issues with previous 1.13 releases. If you were holding out on re-packing your add-on with the latest and greatest, please do so as soon as possible! On a related note, we got 1.13.2 out so fast, both the Add-on Builder and… Continue reading
The Jetpack team would like to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.13.2, which addresses several issues, including a P1 Memshrink bug: Opening and closing browser windows seems to add FragmentOrElement objects to the CC graph when Addon SDK addons are installed which add an addonbar widget. (Bug 833783) Context-menu reuses the same worker when… Continue reading
I thought I’d shamelessly quote and link to an exciting post by Dave Townsend ( aka Mossop ) who is the engineering manager for the Jetpack team: We’re now a big step closer to shipping the SDK APIs with Firefox and other apps, we’ve uplifted the SDK code from our git repository to mozilla-inbound and… Continue reading
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 in 1.12 ( bug 836318 ) Fixed an issue where certain combinations of add-ons could result in an extra separator in the context menu (… Continue reading
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 authors yesterday: To put the change simply, before with global private browsing a add-on developer need only know if the mode was active or not… Continue reading
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 and even process or system boundaries. You should read Will’s post on changes to the SDK’s require syntax that we released with SDK 1.12, as… Continue reading
Jeff is Product Manager for the Add-on SDK and occasional Open Web hacker, based in Vancouver, BC.
