Add-ons Blog

Posts by Nick Nguyen (osunick)

Love Add-ons? Love Marketing? Join our team!

We’re looking for a stellar marketeer to join the Add-ons team. As readers of this blog know, Add-ons are an integral part of the Firefox experience for millions of users worldwide. If you’re a fan of Add-ons and you are great at marketing, we’d like to meet you. More details below: Responsibilities: Build deep consumer… Continue reading

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Personas now on AMO

About a year ago, Mozilla Labs launched Personas, a way to easily create and install lightweight themes for Firefox and Thunderbird.  Over 9 million downloads and 30,000 Personas later, we’ve included them on AMO as a new way to personalize your browser.  Simply click the Personas category on the left side of AMO and you’ll… Continue reading

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Contributions- a look at some numbers

Since the Contributions Pilot launched in July, we’ve been working hard to improve this feature and understand its impact on the community.  Since we launched the Contributions Dashboards in early September, we’ve been able to look at the data and gather our findings. One of the first questions that developers want to know is whether… Continue reading

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Cancelled: Add-ons Meetup today

Come join us at the new Mozilla HQ in Mountain View for some BBQ and a schedule that’s light on presentation and heavy on interaction.  Sign up here. Festivities start at 7 and end at 9, hope to see you there! Edit: due to the biggest storm since 1962, we’ve postponed the event.  Stay tuned… Continue reading

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Supporting our add-on developers

There’s been interest lately around the SkipScreen add-on and we’re happy to report that we will continue to list this add-on on our site.  We continue to support add-on developers like SkipScreen and work hard to provide the best selection of browser add-ons on the Web.

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Contributions stats and first run pages

For those of you who request contributions for your add-ons, you can now track your contribution amounts on AMO via the stats dashboard.  Like the contributions pilot itself, the enhancement to the dashboard is still evolving, so it’s pretty basic for now.  To see the contributions dashboard, simply go to your statistics dashboard and select… Continue reading

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Profile pictures

One thing we’ve done on AMO over the past couple months is make developer and user profiles prettier.  We’ve given you, our loyal users, the tools to make nicer user profiles so that others can get a better sense of who you are.  So put a face on  your add-ons, collections, and reviews by uploading… Continue reading

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Tagging for add-ons

As we mentioned earlier this year, we’ve been thinking about adding tagging to make add-ons easier to classify and discovery.  Starting last week, any add-on in AMO can get tagged by users and developers alike.  For those of you unfamiliar with tagging, it’s simply a way to add words or phrases that describe an add-on… Continue reading

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