As we begin 2013, I thought it’d be a good idea to look back and see what we accomplished last year. Overall it was another good year for the review team, full of challenges and successes. This year we had three major events: New Year’s Challenge, where you cleared the review queues for the first… 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
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 The rewrite of the context-menu has landed, and should be included in the 1.13 release of the SDK. This fixes lots of long-standing context-menu bugs. There will be an RC2 of the 1.12 release of the SDK in the next day or two, to fix a regression in the docs generating code and… Continue reading
Jata 7 Update 7 is vulnerable to a critical security bug that could lead attackers to compromise the user’s system through the Java plugin. The vulnerability is currently being exploited, and is a serious risk to users. To mitigate this risk, we have added Java 7 Update 7 to the add-on blocklist. Update 6 and… 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
If you’ve looked through the documentation for Add-on SDK 1.11, you may have noticed that the page documenting the private-browsing module contains the following message: The activate and deactivate methods are now deprecated. They will continue to work until version 1.13 of the SDK. From version 1.13 onwards they will still exist but will have… 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
The Jetpack team is terribly pleased to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.11. You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. What’s new? SDK 1.11 is the most significant release in recent memory, largely due to the enhancements we’ve made to the page-mod module. Page-mod is easily one of the… Continue reading
