Project News We released SDK 1.12 RC3, available in zip or tarball format. As we have mentioned before, the SDK file layout has significantly changed between 1.11 and 1.12, so please take the time to test this RC out and report any issues you might have, ideally to bugzilla. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 423… Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.12RC1 ships today, there are just some documentation updates for it The Jetpack team’s joining the Developer Tools group: this is in line with our desire to use the SDK APIs to develop new Firefox features. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 421 Bugs created last week: 10 Bugs fixed last week: 12… Continue reading
Project News Half the team are in Singapore for Mozcamp Asia, where they’ll be talking about mobile development and adding Firefox features using the SDK. SDK 1.12b2 shipped today. This release contains a major reorganization of the code, which is a prerequisite for landing in Firefox. So we’d love for you to try it out… Continue reading
Project News Jetpack engineer Eddy Bruel gave a talk recently at Amsterdam JS on his work on Spidermonkey and how the guts of the JS engine work. Eddy also recently blogged about his experiences as a C++ developer writing his first Firefox add-on with the Add-on SDK In the next couple of weeks members of… Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.11 was released today – go get it! Ever wonder what the most popular SDK-based add-on is? By a large margin, the number one spot is ‘Easy Youtube Video Downloader‘ with over 2 million users! If you’re attending Mozcamp or are in the Singapore area on the evening of Nov 15th, Jetpack… Continue reading
Project News If you’re excited about that hot new ‘gcli’ toolbar in the Firefox developer tools and want to get started creating your own gcli commands and distributing them via extensions, look no further then Erik Vold’s gcli module! We’re landing a few late-breaking fixed for 1.11, so expect an RC2 announcement form Wes tomorrow… Continue reading
Project News Mozilla Labs just pushed out this awesome ‘about:profile‘ add-on that shows an interesting break-down of your web rowsing history – made with the SDK of course! SDK developer Matteo Ferretti has been working on some new modules that are ready for people to test out – ‘Geolocation‘ is self-explanatory and ‘Doorhanger‘ implements a… Continue reading
Project News Erik blogged about his excellent work on porting the SDK’s windows and tabs modules to Mobile Firefox! Not to be outdone, Will also blogged about our recently retro-fitted module lifecycle process and policies. Will has also just kicked off a lively thread over in the Jetpack Google Group about community-developed modules. If you’ve… Continue reading
Project News You may have seen a post from Alex Keybl yesterday on changes to Firefox’s release schedule coming up at the end of the year: We’re going to extend the 11/19/2012 – 12/31/2012 cycle by a week, with a revised end of 1/6/2013. Given the timeline change, we’re targeting release of Firefox 18 for… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is happy to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.10. You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. This latest release improves the SDK’s compatibility with Firefox Aurora and Nightly, fixes a ton of bugs, and also includes a few new bits you should check out: bug 764866:… Continue reading
