The Jetpack team is proud to announce the release of Add-on SDK version 1.6! This version of the SDK is mostly a bug-fix release yet with one very important update, the documentation. The SDK documentation has been updated for easier navigation and more information, including tutorials on using a few community-built modules that aren’t in… Continue reading
Project News Irakli blogged about the hows and whys of using the SDK’s namespace implementation. Alex updated the Jetpack Google Group with progress on localization features. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 270 Bugs created last week: 10 Bugs fixed last week: 2 Total SDK-based Addons on AMO: 464 Open pull requests on Github: 28 Note:… Continue reading
SDK Tech Lead Irakli Gozalishvili blogged today about the intention behind the SDK’s namespace implementation: Sometimes program is written to work with third party, potentially malicious, code which may use variety of attack vectors in order to escalate privileges and do something harmful. This is exact scenario we have in add-on SDK, where we wrap… Continue reading
Project News I blogged yesterday about SDK compatibility with the Firefox 10 ESR release. Firefox UI designer Stephen Horlander dropped by the weekly meeting this morning and showed us some amazing mockups of the work his team is working on. This aligns with our goal to eliminate add-on bar widgets and place add-on UI up… Continue reading
When Firefox 10 was released, this version was also released as an ‘ESR’ ( or Extended Support Release ) build. ESR releases of Firefox are intended for deployments of Firefox within large organizations and are supported for much longer periods of time. For more information on ESR, please see the proposal on the wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Enterprise/Firefox/ExtendedSupport:Proposal… Continue reading
Project News We’re getting slightly more serious about shipping the SDK’s loader and core libraries in Firefox; see this feature page for some initial thoughts, and subscribe to the related meta-bug if you want to track progress. Irakli is getting fairly serious about improving module sharing for the SDK. He wrote up this proposal on… Continue reading
Project News The Jetpack team met up last week in Mountain View. We talked about the roadmap for 2012, especially the following features: mobile support: how to make the make the experience of developing add-ons for Firefox Mobile as good as we can UI modifications: how we can give add-on developers more control of their… Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who attended the Add-ons meetup in San Francisco on Tuesday! If you missed the event, you can find a recording of it here: http://vid.ly/7a6y5v and photos here: http://bit.ly/ApqXyZ Special thanks to our volunteer presenters Mark Cramer, Sharon Minsuk, and Fritz Mueller! If you are interested in attending a future meetup, please join… Continue reading
Yesterday the Jetpack project released SDK 1.5. Alongside this Dave Mason pointed out that the upcoming release of Firefox 11 will break compatibility with add-ons packaged with SDK versions 1.3 and below. This is necessary because of a change in Firefox where nsIDOMNSElement was removed ( Jorge recently mentioned this in his compatibility post ).… Continue reading
After a year in incubation we’re ready to remove the beta tag from the Add-on Builder! For those of you who are unfamiliar with this fantastic tool, Add-on Builder is an online development environment that allows developers with knowledge of HTML, JavaScipt and CSS to rapidly create add-ons for Firefox using the Mozilla Add-on SDK.… Continue reading
