Project News Hot on the heels of last week’s 1.13.2 patch release, Add-on Builder and the AMO Validator have been updated to support this new version. If you haven’t already, please update your add-on to this new version! Alex posted the first in a series of posts about how to implement Web APIs using add-ons.… Continue reading
The Jetpack team would like to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.13.2, which addresses several issues, including a P1 Memshrink bug: Opening and closing browser windows seems to add FragmentOrElement objects to the CC graph when Addon SDK addons are installed which add an addonbar widget. (Bug 833783) Context-menu reuses the same worker when… Continue reading
I thought I’d shamelessly quote and link to an exciting post by Dave Townsend ( aka Mossop ) who is the engineering manager for the Jetpack team: We’re now a big step closer to shipping the SDK APIs with Firefox and other apps, we’ve uplifted the SDK code from our git repository to mozilla-inbound and… Continue reading
The Jetpack team would like to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.13.1, which addresses several issues: Reverted context menu items in sub-menus to display by default as they did in 1.12 ( bug 836318 ) Fixed an issue where certain combinations of add-ons could result in an extra separator in the context menu (… Continue reading
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.13 today! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. As well, Add-on SDK 1.13 is now live and available for Add-on Builder users. What’s new? Dave Townsend completely re-wrote the context-menu module to be much more reliable and less prone to… Continue reading
In version 1.12 we changed the structure of the SDK, removing the idea of “packages” and relocating all the SDK’s modules under the “lib” directory. This changed, and greatly simplified, the require() syntax used to import modules. This change would break backwards compatibility, so we implemented a shim to ensure that most common usages of… Continue reading
Project News Much thanks to Mozillian Marc Chevrier for not only reporting but providing a patch for bug 829651. I love it when developers report into bugs with patches! Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 29 Bugs fixed last week: 18 Total SDK-based Add-ons on AMO: 1,421 Open pull requests on… Continue reading
Project News It’s a new year! And with that comes a new SDK product road-map for 2013! The blog post is here, and if you have any feedback we’d love to hear about it on this Google groups thread. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 17 Bugs fixed last week: 10… Continue reading
Project News We released 1.12 last Tuesday, but there was no weekly update here due to a particularly busy week at an Add-ons Work Week last week. Even better, despite some major differences introduced in SDK 1.12, Piotr was able to get Builder updated to support 1.12 last Wednesday. Today’s Jetpack meeting was the last… Continue reading
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.12 today; you can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. Update: The Add-on Builder has now been updated to support SDK 1.12. What’s new? Enhancements to simple-prefs. I’m really pleased to include in this release some much-needed enhancements to the simple-prefs module… Continue reading
