Introducing the Add-on Guidelines
Add-ons are often cited as the main reason users love Firefox, and while they offer users substantial benefits, they can also be a cause of slowdowns, instability and other problems. … Read more
Articles in “policy”
On Circumventing User Protection Controls in Firefox
Deep customization through add-ons is one of the best features of Firefox, and we’re thrilled to have such a vibrant ecosystem of community-developed extensions, themes, and other kinds of add-ons … Read more
McAfee Add-on Update
Just over a week ago, Mozilla’s memory team discovered major leaks caused by the McAfee SiteAdvisor 3.4.1 add-on. A bug was filed, and six days later the McAfee team released … Read more
Want to help select featured add-ons? Apply now!
Find out how you can help select featured add-ons for Firefox. Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2011/03/01
Summary These posts written every 2 weeks explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. Nominations at the moment are being processed slower than … Read more
Sandboxed add-ons to be disabled next week
The new Developer Tools and review process were implemented on AMO and announced a little over a month ago. I also expanded the explanation about the new review process, so … Read more
An Overview of the AMO Review Process
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a long post detailing our add-on review process. It has been a few weeks since the launch of the new developer tools, and … Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/11/09
Summary These bi-weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this … Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/10/26
Summary These bi-weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this … Read more