The Jetpack team would like to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.13.1, which addresses several issues: Reverted context menu items in sub-menus to display by default as they did in 1.12 ( bug 836318 ) Fixed an issue where certain combinations of add-ons could result in an extra separator in the context menu (… 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
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.13 today! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. As well, Add-on SDK 1.13 is now live and available for Add-on Builder users. What’s new? Dave Townsend completely re-wrote the context-menu module to be much more reliable and less prone to… 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
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
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
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
We have made great strides in our efforts to automatically re-pack SDK add-ons to a recent version. As part of this effort I recently sent a few hundred emails ( with help from IT of course ) to add-on authors asking for help to test and update re-packed versions of their add-ons. If you ave… Continue reading
There is no doubt that modifying web content is one of the most popular features in the SDK. With this in mind, the SDK team is very excited about the upcoming 1.11 release. SDK Engineer Alexandre Poirot posted a nice overview of the key features we’ve been working on: page-mod API is the most commonly… Continue reading
