Introducing page-mod’s “attachTo”
This post is written by guest blogger and SDK developer Matteo Ferretti. We’re pleased to announce a new feature for the page-mod module that’s coming in Add-on SDK 1.11: the … Read more
Will Bamberg
Jetpack Project: weekly update for July 31, 2012
Project News We made the first 1.9 release candidate today, in preparation for a release next week. We’re working on a repack of AMO-hosted Jetpack add-ons. If you have an … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for July 24, 2012
Project News We’re releasing SDK 1.9 beta 3 today. We’re releasing SDK 1.8.2 today or tomorrow, to fix bug 764688, that breaks “cfx test” in Beta, Aurora and Nightly. Bug … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for May 22, 2012
Project News SDK 1.8b2 is being released today. Irakli’s scratch-kit add-on now turns code samples in the SDK docs into executable example add-ons. Try it out: install the XPI, and … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for February 28th, 2012
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 … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for February 7th, 2012
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. … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for Nov. 29, 2011
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 … Read more
Security Mechanisms in the Add-on SDK
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 … Read more
Porting the Library Detector to the Add-on SDK
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 … Read more