Project News If you’re excited about that hot new ‘gcli’ toolbar in the Firefox developer tools and want to get started creating your own gcli commands and distributing them via extensions, look no further then Erik Vold’s gcli module! We’re landing a few late-breaking fixed for 1.11, so expect an RC2 announcement form Wes tomorrow… Continue reading
How would you extend the APIs for Firefox on Android? A few days ago, stak posted this question on his blog. If you have created add-ons for Firefox on Android, or are considering to, I recommend that you give you him some feedback about what you would like to see available. As a reference for… Continue reading
Project News Mozilla Labs just pushed out this awesome ‘about:profile‘ add-on that shows an interesting break-down of your web rowsing history – made with the SDK of course! SDK developer Matteo Ferretti has been working on some new modules that are ready for people to test out – ‘Geolocation‘ is self-explanatory and ‘Doorhanger‘ implements a… Continue reading
Project News Erik blogged about his excellent work on porting the SDK’s windows and tabs modules to Mobile Firefox! Not to be outdone, Will also blogged about our recently retro-fitted module lifecycle process and policies. Will has also just kicked off a lively thread over in the Jetpack Google Group about community-developed modules. If you’ve… Continue reading
Project News You may have seen a post from Alex Keybl yesterday on changes to Firefox’s release schedule coming up at the end of the year: We’re going to extend the 11/19/2012 – 12/31/2012 cycle by a week, with a revised end of 1/6/2013. Given the timeline change, we’re targeting release of Firefox 18 for… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is happy to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.10. You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. This latest release improves the SDK’s compatibility with Firefox Aurora and Nightly, fixes a ton of bugs, and also includes a few new bits you should check out: bug 764866:… Continue reading
Project News The Jetpack team is gathering for a work week next week, so the usual Tuesday morning meeting is cancelled. If you are attending Mozcamp in Warsaw next week and want to chat about add-ons and Jetpack, please introduce yourself! As well, you should check out all the cool talks Mozillians have proposed for… Continue reading
Project News We released Add-on SDK version 1.8.1 today to address a regression in 1.8. For all the gory details, head on over to the bug. I did ta brown-bag presentation for the Mozilla interns in Mountain View yesterday on ‘why add-ons don’t suck’, that was recorded on Air Mozilla. The Jetpack project is excited… Continue reading
Project News We released SDK 1.8 last Tuesday as you’d expect, and then the awesome people on the Builder team followed up one day later by updating to 1.8 as well. Alex & Gabor are working on a patch to eliminate all sandbox-related leaks, hopefully we can land this soon! Inspired by the devtools team’s… Continue reading
Project News It starts! Yesterday we landed the commonJS module loader land from the SDK on Mozilla Central!! This is a big first step in the process to ship the SDK loader and apis in Firefox. Alexandre Poirot has made great progress with the development of a re-packing script for older SDK-based add-ons to the… Continue reading
