Project News The Jetpack team met up last week in Mountain View. We talked about the roadmap for 2012, especially the following features: mobile support: how to make the make the experience of developing add-ons for Firefox Mobile as good as we can UI modifications: how we can give add-on developers more control of their… Continue reading
Project News We released a hotfix release, 1.4.3. It fixes an important regression in 1.4, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 and should be taken by anybody currently using one of those releases. More details here. FOSDEM happened, there were Jetpack presentations and discussions. Henrik Skupin blogged about it, and contributed a patch. Andrew Sutherland has written an… Continue reading
Project News Shipped SDK 1.3 Landed initial implementation of the Preferences API (although this won’t make it into 1.3). Encouraging results from the latest round of performance testing for SDK-based add-ons. Started planning a new API enabling developers to create pages like the about:addons page: that is, they’re not intended to host normal web pages,… Continue reading
Firefox add-ons have powerful capabilities, including the ability to read and write the user’s file system, access the network, and access stored passwords. At the same time they interact directly with untrusted web content (that is, arbitrary web pages, and the scripts they load). If add-ons aren’t carefully designed, malicious web sites can exploit their… Continue reading
Now it’s shipped the first stable release, one of the Jetpack project’s top priorities is to make it easier for people to port their add-ons to the Add-on SDK. I thought a small experiment would help me understand better what’s involved in porting to the SDK, and highlight some of the rough edges which make… Continue reading
