Mozilla Add-ons Blog » restartless http://blog.mozilla.org/addons Mon, 20 May 2013 19:39:55 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Add-ons Meetup Group – Wednesday June 6! http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/05/31/add-ons-meetup-group-wednesday-june-6/ http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/05/31/add-ons-meetup-group-wednesday-june-6/#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 21:26:55 +0000 Jeff Griffiths http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/?p=4929 Continue reading]]> Join the Firefox Add-ons team at Mozilla’s headquarters in Mountain View for an informative evening of food, drinks, and prizes!

Learn best practices for getting your add-ons approved, and hear case studies about developers who have built successful businesses around add-ons. We’ll also talk about the new Mozilla Marketplace for apps, and more!

Those who can’t make this event can catch the presentations on Air Mozilla: https://air.mozilla.org/. A recording will also be available after the event.

For more info, please check out the Meetup group page and RSVP.

]]> http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/05/31/add-ons-meetup-group-wednesday-june-6/feed/ 3 Add-on Builder 1.0 is Ready for Liftoff! http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/02/22/add-on-builder-1-0-is-ready-for-liftoff/ http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/02/22/add-on-builder-1-0-is-ready-for-liftoff/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:21:59 +0000 Daniel Buchner http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/?p=4358 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. You can think of it as the jsFiddle of add-on development and debugging.

Add-on Builder leverages the Add-on SDK to produce add-ons that users can install without restarting Firefox. In addition, add-ons created with Add-on Builder are automatically repackaged with Add-on SDK updates – which ensures that Builder-based add-ons will continue to work for users without interruption, regardless of Firefox API changes.

Add-on Builder provides many features specifically tailored to help add-on authors develop add-ons:

  • a simple online interface for writing your code
  • live, one-click add-on testing
  • access to a repository of third-party add-on libraries
  • jsFiddle-like sharing and collaboration
  • instant upgrade options for new versions of the Add-on SDK
  • integrated features for publishing to addons.mozilla.org

If you haven’t yet developed an add-on for Firefox, we suggest you give the Add-on Builder a try. With a simple interface and many helpful tools, it truly is the quickest, easiest way to create add-ons for Firefox!

]]> http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2012/02/22/add-on-builder-1-0-is-ready-for-liftoff/feed/ 3 Jetpack Project: weekly update for Oct. 4 2011 http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/10/11/jetpack-project-weekly-update-for-oct-4-2011/ http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/10/11/jetpack-project-weekly-update-for-oct-4-2011/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 20:49:27 +0000 Jeff Griffiths http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/?p=3333 Continue reading]]> Project News
  • London Add-on Workshop SDK slides are posted.
  • We’re running an end-of year add-on competition focusing on restartless addons.

Meeting Brief

  • Builder / re-pack scripts need more testing.
  • SDK 1.2 RC1 to be released later today.
  • L10n and Mobile support under active development, no hard time-lines for landing on trunk.
  • Planning an all-day SDK hack day in Mountain View on November 19th, looking for participants.

Full minutes are available here:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Jetpack/Weekly_Meeting/2011-10-11#Minutes

Aside: further updates about the Add-on SDK and Builder products will be posted under the label ‘Jetpack Project’, if only because this new labelling scheme legitimizes our conitnued use of Rocketry-themed puns.

]]> http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/10/11/jetpack-project-weekly-update-for-oct-4-2011/feed/ 1 Competition time: End of Year Add-on collection http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/10/07/restartless-add-on-competition/ http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2011/10/07/restartless-add-on-competition/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 13:48:12 +0000 Dan Horner http://blog.mozilla.org/addons/?p=3318 Continue reading]]> With those summer days behind us and the days getting shorter, we’d like to brighten your days (that is – unless you’re in the southern hemisphere), by opening up another Featured add-ons competition for the end of the year!

This season it’s all about Restartless add-ons. So, to be considered, your add-on must be Restartless and compatible with the current Beta version of Firefox. Find out how to make restartless add-ons using Add-on Builder and the Add-on SDK, or check out the following documentation on MDN and Dave Townsend’s blog.

The collection will be promoted through the Add-on Manager, our Add-ons Gallery, Facebook, the Rock Your Firefox blog, and through Twitter, among other Firefox channels.

All entries will be reviewed by the Featured add-ons team, and their decisions will be based on the following criteria:

  1. Quality of features
  2. Functionality
  3. User experience
  4. Originality
  5. Usefulness
  6. Performance
  7. Security

To win a place in the collection, simply submit your add-on to amo-featured@mozilla.org.

Get your entries in by 11:59pm PST on Tuesday November 8th. If you win, we’ll reach out to you to let you know shortly afterwards. You can download the contest rules here.

Good luck!

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