Last week saw the culmination of many months of hard work by the add-ons community to put on an event that allowed them to express their opinions and share their experiences. I really want to stress something about Add-on-Con; it … Continue reading
Firefox 3.1 Beta2 is here ! As we said before, it’s time to update your add-ons. Many add-ons should work out of the box with beta2. Others might need a little tweak. If you have tested and you are sure … Continue reading
Last week, we announced that we are sponsoring the first ever Add-on-Con conference and we can’t say enough about how excited we are to see this conference happen. Mozilla has been a leader in providing a stable and extensible platform … Continue reading
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is coming. This beta will be add-on compatibility frozen. That means it’s safe to update your add-ons. Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 will likely be released the first week of December. With Beta 2 we’re making the … Continue reading
Anyone that’s been doing add-on development for awhile is sure to relate when I say that the add-on arena is aggressively expanding in a very positive way. We’re starting to see a greater number of business ventures appear on the … Continue reading
This morning, addons.mozilla.org reached a huge milestone: we served our 1 billionth add-on download since we started keeping track of downloads in 2005. This number only includes downloads from addons.mozilla.org, but as many add-ons are hosted elsewhere, we can be … Continue reading
While savvy Firefox users have reaped the benefits of add-ons for some time, reaching out to new users has been a bit of a challenge. We’ve been looking for ways to improve how users can get introduced to Firefox add-ons … Continue reading
Hello, In order to help add-on authors migrate to Firefox 3.1, the Mozilla evangelism team is working on documenting changes between Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.1 which could affect extensions. Some of you have already updated your extensions to Firefox … Continue reading
Justin Scott has worked hard on creating a compatibility dashboard to help us understand how the add-ons universe is preparing for new versions of Firefox. The live version is up on addons.mozilla.org. Check it out!
Lifehacker wrote an article on their favorite experimental Firefox extensions today. Great article, and worth a read. See also: See the newest experimental extensions on addons.mozilla.org Lifehacker: Experimental Extensions We’d Like to Go Mainstream Lifehacker: Three Awesome Experimental Firefox Extensions
