We’re very excited to begin rolling out a new design for our homepage and add-on details page to a small number of visitors to addons.mozilla.org very soon. These new designs bring some of our most popular pages in line with the new Mozilla styling and provide a cleaner, simpler look for exploring the thousands of… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.0b4. This version, the fourth in the series of beta releases of Mozilla’s downloadable software development kit for easily building Firefox add-ons, includes new APIs, enhancements to modules, plenty of new features, and a bunch of bug fixes. Notable improvements include: Brand new… Continue reading
Every time a big Firefox release is upon us, we’re reminded of a longstanding and frustrating hassle on AMO: there’s only one latest version. Add-on versions and files are more complex than meets the eye, and in combination with our need for aggressive caching, AMO has only ever been able to return the very latest… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.0b3. This version, the third in the series of beta releases of Mozilla’s downloadable software development kit for building Firefox add-ons, includes better documentation, new features, and a bunch of bug fixes. Notable improvements include: The documentation has been reorganized, restyled, and expanded… Continue reading
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 that warrants a new post explaining how the new review process works. I’ll try to keep it short this time. By the way, this post… Continue reading
We’re happy to announce that the revamped Developer Tools area of addons.mozilla.org has just launched, bringing in many bugfixes and improvements, as well as support for our new review process. Highlights An entirely new design provides easier access to commonly used features, such as updating compatibility information, and much better interactions for add-on submission and… Continue reading
The AMO team has been working on a complete rewrite of our Developer Tools area for several months, and we hope to launch them this Thursday at the earliest. Developer Tools is the area of the site that deals with submission and management of hosted add-ons, and is among the most complicated parts of AMO.… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is thrilled to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.0b1, the first beta release of Mozilla’s new software development kit for building Firefox add-ons! Add-on SDK 1.0b1, the culmination of months of hard work and nine alpha releases, is the best way to get started with building add-ons for the upcoming Firefox… Continue reading
Summary These posts written every 2 weeks 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 that should be read as a general guide about the review process. All nominations are being reviewed within 5 days. All updates are being reviewed… Continue reading
Firefox 4 beta 7 is out, and now is the best time to evaluate your add-on’s compatibility with the next major Firefox release. This is the first “feature frozen” release, meaning that there will be no more major changes performed to the UI, APIs or features in Firefox. Other than bug fixes and stability improvements,… Continue reading
