First Place

Our top prize goes to Nils Maier!

Nils is the author of the very popular DownThemAll! extension, as well as other add-ons such as Scriptish and MinimizeToTray revived. He is very valuable community member who has helped us raise the bar in add-on security, and is currently very active helping the MemShrink team with add-on memory leak reports and documentation.

Runners-Up

We decided to give away one extra prize because the runner-up race was pretty intense and everyone on this group deserved special recognition.

• Leszek Życzkowski, author of QuickNote, Copy Plain Text 2, and many others.
• Andreas Wagner, author of Slim Add-ons Manager and WebReview.
• Archaeopteryx.
• Diego Casorran, author of FB Phishing Protector, Personas Shuffler, and many others.
• Ken Barbalace, author of the Classic Compact theme and its companion extension, Classic Compact Options.

T-shirt Winners

All editors who completed at least 20 reviews during the contest period gets an awesome Firefox t-shirt. And they are:

• Erik Vold.
• Cyril Pascal.
• Axel Grude.
• Jesper Hansen.
• Kent James.

Thanks!

Thanks to the excellent efforts of the review team, this contest was another resounding success. The volunteer reviewers completed a total of 3500 reviews during these 2 months, and for the first time ever we completely cleared the review queues. You guys are awesome!

If you’re an add-on developer and want to join our team, please visit our wiki page for more information. There are very exciting changes coming for the review team, and winning the occasional prize is only part of the fun

This means that if you submit your add-on now or in the following days, chances are it will be reviewed within a few minutes. This is amazing feat, specially considering that add-on submissions are constantly increasing, and we add new policies all the time that make add-on reviews higher quality, but also longer to perform.

We’d like to thank and congratulate the AMO Editors team for their exceptional work along the years. You guys are amazing! We’ll call out our most active contributors soon, when we wrap up the very successful New Year’s Challenge.

PS: If you’re an add-on developer and your add-on hasn’t been reviewed, please get in touch with us by commenting here. It’s possible that your add-on is in an Incomplete state and you forgot to add it to one of the queues, or it could be a bug on our site.

The Review Queues

• Nominations for full review at the moment are being processed slower than usual. Most nominations are taking less than 4 weeks to review.
• Most updates are being reviewed within one week.
• Most preliminary reviews are being reviewed within 2 weeks.

These stats are taken from last week’s queue report:

• 74 new nominations that week. 153 nominations in the queue awaiting review.
• 115 new updates that week. 120 updates in the queue awaiting review.
• 97 new preliminary review submissions that week. 160 preliminary submissions in the queue awaiting review.

Waiting times are rapidly dropping and will continue to drop in the following weeks thanks to our New Years Challenge. There’s still plenty of time to participate and win great prizes, including tablets and a laptop.

If you’re interested in joining the AMO Editors team and help us review add-ons, please visit our wiki page.

Firefox 10

The Firefox 10 compatibility post is here. The compatibility bump to Firefox 10 was run last week, so any add-ons with compatibility under 10.* should be tested and manually upgraded in the Developer Hub, if possible.

You can run the standalone compatibility tool if you want to test your add-on yourself or if it isn’t hosted on AMO.

The Add-ons Default to Compatible feature is progressing, and we expect to land on Firefox 10 or 11. Once this is in place, your compatibility worries will be minimized, and we’ll be taking a more active role in letting developers know if their add-ons are incompatible with a new version of Firefox. This feature will be a big win for both developers and Firefox users, so we’re very excited about it.

Firefox 11

A compatibility blog post for Firefox 11 is coming up.

The new year is upon us, and it’s time to make a big push on the review queues! Between December 22, 2011 and February 22, 2012, AMO Editors are eligible to win some great prizes.

Editors who review 100 or more add-ons during the contest period will advance to the final round, where a panel of judges will decide on the winners based on the following criteria:

• Efficiency in reviews
• Adherence to AMO review policies
• Attention to security

Here’s what the winners will get:

First Place: 13” Macbook Air
Second – Fifth Places: Android tablet

All editors who complete 20 reviews or more during the contest period will receive Firefox t-shirts!

Not an editor? If you are an add-on developer who’s interested in making an impact and enjoying some great perks, join us!

The Fine Print:

• No Mozilla employees or contractors are eligible. This is a volunteer-only contest.
• Finalists will be determined based on reviews performed between December 22, 2011 (12:01am PST) to February 22, 2012 (11:59pm PST). (GMT: Feb 22, 2011 8:01am – Feb 23, 2011 7:59am)
• Qualifying reviews include only approvals and rejections for any of the three queues (nominations, updates and preliminary), and does not include the standard temporary rejection for add-ons with binary components.
• Reviews that need to be backed out due to editor mistakes do not count.

See complete contest rules »

Good luck!

1. Adblock Plus
2. WiseStamp
3. Facebook Translate
4. Webmail Notifier
5. Youtube Music Player

Over the next few weeks our designer will work with these authors to create new icons, and we’ll be sure to share the results! Thanks to everyone who participated in the contest.

Vote Now

Voting ends August 6, 2010 at 11:59:59pm Pacific. Please only vote once for up to 5 add-ons.

The icon is an important part of any add-on, as it appears everywhere the add-on does both on addons.mozilla.org and in Firefox. Yet only half of the add-ons hosted on AMO actually provide a custom icon; the others just use the default green puzzle piece.

With Firefox 4, icons will become even more important as we allow for large 128×128 64×64 pixel icons to really show off an add-on’s personality. To help get add-ons ready for this new focus on icons, we’re announcing an icon makeover contest!

Developers can nominate their add-ons to receive an icon makeover, and the community will vote for the 5 add-ons to receive new icons custom designed by our graphic artist.

Contest Details

Only the developer of a Firefox 3.6-compatible add-on hosted on addons.mozilla.org can nominate their add-on for a new icon by submitting this form. Add-ons are eligible to enter regardless of whether they currently have an icon.

Nominations will be accepted until July 23, 2010 at 11:59:59pm Pacific. The contest will open for community voting on July 26, 2010 through an announcement on this blog and last until August 6, 2010 at 11:59:59pm Pacific. Winners will be announced the next week and will be contacted by our designer, who will work with you to create a custom icon for your add-on to be used on addons.mozilla.org and elsewhere.

Update: Firefox 4 will allow for icons up to 64×64 pixels, not 128×128 as originally reported.
We look forward to your nominations. Stay tuned to this blog for details on how to vote for your favorite add-ons!

REQUIREMENTS
(We are on a tight schedule and have logistics constraints, so apologise for the deadline and geographical restrictions)

• Write a short proposal stating what your add-on name and current install location, why you think it would be useful to mobile browser users, and how you plan on going about implementing it. Send it to brian@mozdev.org by Friday 15 May, at 12:00 CET.
• This challenge is only open to developers living in Europe.
• The challenge open to current Mozdev project owners, and other developers who host their projects elsewhere.

PRIZE

• 10 developers will be chosen, and Mozilla Europe will sponsor your travel and hotel expenses to attend the Mozilla Maemo Danish Weekend.
• Entries will be judged by Mozdev representatives.

USEFUL RESOURCES
http://wiki.maemo.org/MozillaMaemoDanishWeekend
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fennec/1.0b1/releasenotes/
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Extensions
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Architecture
http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/tags/mobile/
http://www.mozdev.org/projects/applications/Fennec.html
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fennec/