Firefox Mobile Add-ons Challenge
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 … Read more
Articles from 2009
A peek at our Contributions pilot
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 … Read more
Hello, add-on developers!
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 … Read more
Contributing to a healthy ecosystem
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 … Read more
AMO is open source
People are often surprised to learn that the software powering addons.mozilla.org is completely open source and available for anyone to use and hack on. For example, Sugar Labs powers its … Read more
No Surprises
Surprises can be appropriate in many situations, but they are not welcome when user security, privacy, and control are at stake. Mozilla is committed to guarding these principles, and we … Read more
New Category Pages and More
New Category Pages Today we launched our category page redesign, which we plan on being the first of many meaningful improvements to AMO this quarter. The goals of the new … Read more
New Developer Agreement
Up until now, we’ve had a fairly basic developer agreement that hasn’t changed with the needs of our developers and our service. Today, we’re launching a new agreement that clarifies … Read more
Firefox 3.5.* maxver now available
With the Firefox 3.5b4 release, we’ve enabled the 3.5.* maxver in the AMO Developer tools. For the vast majority of add-ons without binary components, you can simply update your maxver … Read more