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
As Wes mentioned in his post to the Jetpack Google Group, we have spun some test builds of SDK 1.12 Beta 1 ( available as a zip archive or a tarball ) and hope that people will take the time to test their existing add-on project with this new version. Testing your code with 1.12… Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.11 was released today – go get it! Ever wonder what the most popular SDK-based add-on is? By a large margin, the number one spot is ‘Easy Youtube Video Downloader‘ with over 2 million users! If you’re attending Mozcamp or are in the Singapore area on the evening of Nov 15th, Jetpack… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is terribly pleased to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.11. You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. What’s new? SDK 1.11 is the most significant release in recent memory, largely due to the enhancements we’ve made to the page-mod module. Page-mod is easily one of the… Continue reading
Project News If you’re excited about that hot new ‘gcli’ toolbar in the Firefox developer tools and want to get started creating your own gcli commands and distributing them via extensions, look no further then Erik Vold’s gcli module! We’re landing a few late-breaking fixed for 1.11, so expect an RC2 announcement form Wes tomorrow… Continue reading
Project News Mozilla Labs just pushed out this awesome ‘about:profile‘ add-on that shows an interesting break-down of your web rowsing history – made with the SDK of course! SDK developer Matteo Ferretti has been working on some new modules that are ready for people to test out – ‘Geolocation‘ is self-explanatory and ‘Doorhanger‘ implements a… Continue reading
Project News Erik blogged about his excellent work on porting the SDK’s windows and tabs modules to Mobile Firefox! Not to be outdone, Will also blogged about our recently retro-fitted module lifecycle process and policies. Will has also just kicked off a lively thread over in the Jetpack Google Group about community-developed modules. If you’ve… Continue reading
Project News You may have seen a post from Alex Keybl yesterday on changes to Firefox’s release schedule coming up at the end of the year: We’re going to extend the 11/19/2012 – 12/31/2012 cycle by a week, with a revised end of 1/6/2013. Given the timeline change, we’re targeting release of Firefox 18 for… Continue reading
We have made great strides in our efforts to automatically re-pack SDK add-ons to a recent version. As part of this effort I recently sent a few hundred emails ( with help from IT of course ) to add-on authors asking for help to test and update re-packed versions of their add-ons. If you ave… Continue reading
There is no doubt that modifying web content is one of the most popular features in the SDK. With this in mind, the SDK team is very excited about the upcoming 1.11 release. SDK Engineer Alexandre Poirot posted a nice overview of the key features we’ve been working on: page-mod API is the most commonly… Continue reading
Jeff is Product Manager for the Add-on SDK and occasional Open Web hacker, based in Vancouver, BC.
