I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 10 days to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 1 week. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Project News We currently are experiencing an issue with the AMO validator AMO stemming from last week’s SDK 1.9 release. If you submit an add-on to AMO right now that has been packaged with SDK 1.9, you will get an odd validator message telling you that you are not using the latest version of the… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 10 days to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 10 days. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Firefox 14 has been in beta for a while now, so this blog post is a bit overdue. Here’s an almost comprehensive list of the changes that went into Firefox 14 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox 14 for Developers, so you should read that too. General Implement new… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 2 weeks to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 2 weeks. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Since we implemented Add-ons Default to Compatible, most add-ons that were updated to work on Firefox 4 continue to work on the latest releases. The add-on compatibility problems we’ve had ever since have been minimal. However, there are still a number of popular add-ons that weren’t updated for the switch to Firefox 4. People who… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 1 month to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 2 weeks. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Firefox 13 has been in beta for a while now, so this blog post is a bit overdue. Here’s an almost comprehensive list of the changes that went into Firefox 13 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox 13 for Developers, so you should read that too. General New Tab… Continue reading
TL;DR: PLEASE Re-pack your add-ons with the latest SDK! The SDK team has been collaborating with the Memshrink team to identify and fix various ‘zombie’ compartment leaks and similar issues. Nicholas Nethercote writes in his most recent update that Kyle Huey’s recent patch to address these issues is a real game-changer: I did some testing… Continue reading
Irakli recently posted a ‘Spring Cleaning’ todo list ( https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/wiki/Spring-cleaning-2012 ) of changes we are proposing to make to the SDK in the next few months. While most of these changes deal with how the SDK is implemented and will not affect the behaviour of the top-level APIs, there are two specific changes that will… Continue reading
