Firefox 15 introduced a major improvement in memory usage, by disallowing add-ons to keep references to DOM objects after their parent document was destroyed. This eliminates the most common cause of memory leaks in add-ons, and should reduce memory consumption for many users. If you install an add-on that causes this kind of memory leak,… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 2 weeks to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 10 days. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Firefox 15 will be released tomorrow (sorry for the late post!). Here’s a list of changes that went into Firefox 15 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox 15 for Developers, so you should read that too. General Remove support for Chrome -> Content leaks. This bug fix has been… Continue reading
Add-ons often need to interact with page content, and mixing privileged and unprivileged code can be tricky thing to get right without compromising security. Unintentionally exposing privileged objects to web content is a major security concern, which is why bug 553102 came about. The idea behind this bug is simple: if you need to share… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 10 days to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 1 week. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Wladimir Palant, lead developer of the very popular Adblock Plus add-on has a couple of interesting posts up in his blog. In his first article, Why you should make your next add-on restartless, he weighs the pros and cons of creating a restartless (non-SDK) add-on. For me, the advantages clearly outweigh the disadvantages. If you already… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 10 days to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 10 days. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Firefox 14 has been in beta for a while now, so this blog post is a bit overdue. Here’s an almost comprehensive list of the changes that went into Firefox 14 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox 14 for Developers, so you should read that too. General Implement new… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 2 weeks to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 2 weeks. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 1 month to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 2 weeks. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
