I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.13 today! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. As well, Add-on SDK 1.13 is now live and available for Add-on Builder users. What’s new? Dave Townsend completely re-wrote the context-menu module to be much more reliable and less prone to… Continue reading
Project News Much thanks to Mozillian Marc Chevrier for not only reporting but providing a patch for bug 829651. I love it when developers report into bugs with patches! Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 29 Bugs fixed last week: 18 Total SDK-based Add-ons on AMO: 1,421 Open pull requests on… Continue reading
Project News I blogged last week about the 2013 Jetpack Roadmap; for this first quarter the Jetpack team is hard at work on a set of goals that will result in shipping the core apis in Firefox, quite likely in Firefox 21. If you want to follow that work there are a few different places… Continue reading
Project News It’s a new year! And with that comes a new SDK product road-map for 2013! The blog post is here, and if you have any feedback we’d love to hear about it on this Google groups thread. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 17 Bugs fixed last week: 10… Continue reading
During December I worked with the rest of the SDK team as well as other stakeholders to develop a product road-map for the SDK for the next year. This road-map planning is critical as 2013 promises to be a very eventful year for both the Jetpack team and the SDK, and I think a very,… Continue reading
Project News We released 1.12 last Tuesday, but there was no weekly update here due to a particularly busy week at an Add-ons Work Week last week. Even better, despite some major differences introduced in SDK 1.12, Piotr was able to get Builder updated to support 1.12 last Wednesday. Today’s Jetpack meeting was the last… Continue reading
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.12 today; you can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. Update: The Add-on Builder has now been updated to support SDK 1.12. What’s new? Enhancements to simple-prefs. I’m really pleased to include in this release some much-needed enhancements to the simple-prefs module… Continue reading
Project News We released SDK 1.12 RC3, available in zip or tarball format. As we have mentioned before, the SDK file layout has significantly changed between 1.11 and 1.12, so please take the time to test this RC out and report any issues you might have, ideally to bugzilla. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 423… Continue reading
Project News Jetpack engineer Eddy Bruel gave a talk recently at Amsterdam JS on his work on Spidermonkey and how the guts of the JS engine work. Eddy also recently blogged about his experiences as a C++ developer writing his first Firefox add-on with the Add-on SDK In the next couple of weeks members of… Continue reading
If you’ve looked through the documentation for Add-on SDK 1.11, you may have noticed that the page documenting the private-browsing module contains the following message: The activate and deactivate methods are now deprecated. They will continue to work until version 1.13 of the SDK. From version 1.13 onwards they will still exist but will have… Continue reading
Jeff is Product Manager for the Add-on SDK and occasional Open Web hacker, based in Vancouver, BC.
