Here’s what’s happening with Mozilla’s Thunderbird email client these days. We’re working on the Thunderbird 3 release, currently on beta 2. To support the release, we are working on improving our documentation for writing Thunderbird add-ons. Thunderbird developers will notice … Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who attended our Add-ons Meet-up on Tuesday. We estimate about 50-60 people came, and Alex Sirota has posted some great photos he took. The night started off with pizza and a presentation by Nick Nguyen on the … Continue reading
Here’s a friendly reminder on our add-ons meetup happening tonight at the Mozilla Office. Location: 1981 Landings Dr, Building K (see map) Mountain View, CA 94043 Time: Pizza will arrive around 6:30 Presentations start at 7PM sharp Agenda: List of … Continue reading
Over the past couple of years, millions of visitors have downloaded add-ons over a billion times from AMO. AMO is an aggregator of community innovation, and it’s an increasingly important way through which our add-ons developers reach a broad and … Continue reading
In our add-on developer survey several months ago, we received a number of responses as to what improvements could be made with the current add-ons platform and ecosystem. Among them were: not requiring browser restart for installation better debugging tools … Continue reading
We’ve posted the schedule for our upcoming Add-ons Meet-up on the event wiki page. It’s a jam-packed night of add-ons, including: presentations from the AMO team on our roadmap and upcoming projects Mozilla Labs will demonstrate a new prototype add-on … Continue reading
Mozdev and Mozilla Europe are teaming up to sponsor a contest for mobile add-ons. The following post is from the Mozdev blog. Here at Mozdev, we want to see more add-ons for Firefox Mobile (aka Fennec), so we are teaming … Continue reading
As promised, we’re showing you how things will look after we launch Contributions at the end of June. Our goal with this project was to help developers tell their stories about add-ons, and the first thing we did was redesign … Continue reading
In our recent developer survey, one of the largest pain points identified by respondents was a lack of documentation and resources for extension developers. A contributing factor to this problem is that much of the available documentation and tutorials are … Continue reading
Over the past year, there’s been a growing debate around how add-on developers can receive compensation for the work they put into their add-ons. That’s why we’re looking to launch a contributions pilot by the end of June. This pilot … Continue reading
