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
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 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
Erik Vold has been working hard to implement support for Per-Window Private Browsing in the SDK, and he posted a summary of the work and how it will impact add-on authors yesterday: To put the change simply, before with global private browsing a add-on developer need only know if the mode was active or not… Continue reading
Project News We released SDK 1.13 today! Irakli wrote an interesting post ‘Isolate.js via AST analysis‘ that discusses a novel solution to the problem of passing JS code across compartment and even process or system boundaries. You should read Will’s post on changes to the SDK’s require syntax that we released with SDK 1.12, as… Continue reading
As part of a larger effort to put users in control of their plugins, we have enabled Click-to-Play on old versions of the Adobe Flash Player plugin. For versions 10.2.* and lower, whenever you load a page that uses the plugin, you will see something similar as the image below: As its name indicates, all… 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 I blogged last week about the 2013 Jetpack Roadmap; for this first quarter the Jetpack team is hard at work on a set of goals that will result in shipping the core apis in Firefox, quite likely in Firefox 21. If you want to follow that work there are a few different places… Continue reading
During December I worked with the rest of the SDK team as well as other stakeholders to develop a product road-map for the SDK for the next year. This road-map planning is critical as 2013 promises to be a very eventful year for both the Jetpack team and the SDK, and I think a very,… Continue reading
