SDK Tech Lead Irakli Gozalishvili blogged today about the intention behind the SDK’s namespace implementation: Sometimes program is written to work with third party, potentially malicious, code which may use variety of attack vectors in order to escalate privileges and do something harmful. This is exact scenario we have in add-on SDK, where we wrap… Continue reading
Project News I blogged yesterday about SDK compatibility with the Firefox 10 ESR release. Firefox UI designer Stephen Horlander dropped by the weekly meeting this morning and showed us some amazing mockups of the work his team is working on. This aligns with our goal to eliminate add-on bar widgets and place add-on UI up… Continue reading
When Firefox 10 was released, this version was also released as an ‘ESR’ ( or Extended Support Release ) build. ESR releases of Firefox are intended for deployments of Firefox within large organizations and are supported for much longer periods of time. For more information on ESR, please see the proposal on the wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal… Continue reading
Project News We’re getting slightly more serious about shipping the SDK’s loader and core libraries in Firefox; see this feature page for some initial thoughts, and subscribe to the related meta-bug if you want to track progress. Irakli is getting fairly serious about improving module sharing for the SDK. He wrote up this proposal on… Continue reading
Yesterday the Jetpack project released SDK 1.5. Alongside this Dave Mason pointed out that the upcoming release of Firefox 11 will break compatibility with add-ons packaged with SDK versions 1.3 and below. This is necessary because of a change in Firefox where nsIDOMNSElement was removed ( Jorge recently mentioned this in his compatibility post ).… Continue reading
The ability of developers using the SDK to get chrome authority and access xpcom services is a key feature. The SDK was designed from the start with the assumption that some developers will always need access to the underlying Mozilla platform. While xpcom is the main way to access low level apis, a lot of… Continue reading
Project News Next week’s Bay Area Firefox Add-ons meet-up will be at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on Tuesday, February 21 at 6PM. This month’s meetup features the SDK and Builder, including a talk by yours truly, a raffle for an Android Tablet and much, much more! If you’re in the area on Tuesday Feb 21… Continue reading
I’m excited to be working with Amy to resurrect the bay Area Add-ons meetup next Tuesday night. The theme for this month’s meetup will be the Add-on SDK and Builder, so I will be giving brief overviews of how these tools work and the kinds of things you can do with them. We’d also like… Continue reading
For this post, please welcome guest blogger and SDK developer Matteo Ferretti who has been hard at work porting the SDK to work with the new native version of Mobile Firefox. Getting Started Add-on SDK version 1.5 is due to be released on February 21st, and we're pleased to announce that this version will introduce… Continue reading
Project News We released two point releases, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 to address issues related to deploying SDk 1.4 on the Add-on Builder site. Jorge pointed out an important compatibility issue with SDK 1.3 and the upcoming Firefox 11 release in his compatibility post. We will be re-packing add-ons built with 1.3 and lower prior to… Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths is a Vancouver based web developer and open web advocate; he works on the Developer Engagement team helping to promote the new Addons SDK to web developers and the existing Addons developer community.
