WE SHIPPED!! Unless you’re hiding under a rock, you are probably aware that the Mozilla Project has released Firefox 21 today. Additionally, unless you’ve been completely ignoring my recent posts on this blog, you might also realize that Firefox 21 signals a new chapter in the life of the Jetpack project, as we ship the… Continue reading
Project News Help out Jetpack by using Stack Overflow! You may not be aware, but one of the most common sites where people ask questions about the Add-on SDK is actually on Stackoverflow.com. Questions are marked with the [firefox-addon-sdk] tag, and several new ones appear each week. While you are there, you should also check… Continue reading
Project News After last Tuesday’s release of Add-on SDK 1.14, we updated you on Wednesday about changes in console.log behaviour, and then again on Thursday once we’d updated the AMO Validator and Add-on Builder sites to correctly support SDK 1.14. The current status is that we’re tracking a bug in the AMO validator which produces… Continue reading
As you probably know, Add-on SDK 1.14 was released on Tuesday. I’m pleased to also announce that Add-on Builder has been updated to support SDK 1.14. As well, the AMO Add-on Validator has also been updated to support SDK 1.14. The one caveat with using Add-on Builder with SDK 1.14 is that the behaviour of… Continue reading
One change in SDK 1.14 that has already surprised some people in the community is a change in the visibility of messages printed from console.log. In 1.14 we added some additional features to the console API and also set the default log level to “error” instead of “info” for add-ons installed into Firefox via the… Continue reading
Project News The Jetpack team released Add-on SDK 1.14 a few hours ago! This is a huge step on our journey towards integrating Jetpack with Firefox. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 496 Bugs created last week: 48 Bugs fixed last week: 38 Total SDK-based Add-ons on AMO: 1,678 Open pull requests on Github: 42 Note:… Continue reading
I’m terribly pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.14! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. As I’ve written previously, SDK 1.14 will be the last release of the SDK to include the SDK APIs. Once Firefox 21 ships the version of Firefox you are using will always… Continue reading
Project News We are releasing SDK 1.14rc2 tomorrow, which will also likely be tagged tomorrow as the 1.14 release candidate. In addition to this we are coordinating with the Firefox team and release-drivers to ensure that the code in 1.14 is exactly the same as what we will release in Firefox 21. If you’re maintaining… Continue reading
Update to the update! We’ve now figured out that we only need to repack add-ons that actually use the private-browsing module. If you don’t use private-browsing, you don’t need to do anything. If you use the private-browsing module in an add-on that’s hosted on AMO, then it will be marked incompatible with Firefox 20, and… Continue reading
In my last post I talked about the process currently underway to shift SDK development to match the Firefox release schedule. This work has taken up a ton of time over the last year or so, but most of the benefits to add-on developers are around unexciting things like compatibility and maintenance. Developers want new… Continue reading
