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
Firefox 20 will be released on April 2nd. Here’s the list of changes that went into this version that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox 20 for Developers, so you should read that too. General When doing lazy tab restoration, set the <browser>s in question to display:none. This helps reduce… 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
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 3 weeks to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 3 weeks. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Project News The entire developer tools team ( including the Jetpack team! ) will be meeting up in California next week to work together and hack on new ideas. As such, there will be no weekly meeting next week. Jetpack Bugmaster Wes Kocher released a module called ‘bmo.js’ that allows SDK developers simple access to… Continue reading
The votes are in for March featured add-ons! Featured add-ons are selected by a community board, which nominates and votes on outstanding add-ons that appeal to a wide audience. Anyone can nominate add-ons for the board’s consideration, so don’t be shy! Simply send an email to amo-featured@mozilla.org with your suggestion (you’re welcome to submit your… Continue reading
** 3/26/13 UPDATE ** The final stage of migration will begin Thursday, Mar 28 at 2pm PDT. At this time, getpersonas.com will go into read-only mode, which means it will not accept any new registrations, logins, or theme submissions. We expect this process to last up to two weeks. After migration is complete, you will… 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
Project News Over the last couple of days I’ve published a couple of posts about the near future of the project as we land the SDK’s apis in Firefox: [part 1] & [part 2]. If you have any feedback on these posts, please comment there, below, or ideally post to the Google group. We took… Continue reading
This post is just a mixed bag of add-on compatibility issues that developers should be aware of, most of which will be included in future compatibility updates in this blog, but are worth giving a heads up in advance. Asynchronous Places [21] A large number of Places APIs will be removed in Firefox 21, as… Continue reading
