Announcing Add-on SDK 1.0b2
The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.0b2. This version, the second in the series of beta releases of Mozilla’s downloadable software development kit for … Read more
Articles from January, 2011
Blocking the Skype Toolbar in Firefox
The Skype Toolbar for Firefox is an extension that detects phone numbers in web pages, and re-renders them as a clickable button that can be used to dial the number … Read more
The Jetpack 2011 Roadmap
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good!” It’s been almost a year since Mozilla decided to build a team to productize the Jetpack project’s vision and technologies, … Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2011/01/18
Summary These posts written every 2 weeks explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. Last week a new version of the Developer Tools … Read more
Threads and Workers for Add-ons in Firefox 4
The upcoming Firefox 4 includes a ton of significant changes, many of which have a direct effect on add-ons. The majority of these changes are just new and different ways … Read more
New Contributions features
Riding along with AMO’s large Developer Tools update last Thursday were two new features to our Contributions program. It’s now possible for add-on developers to request that contributions be made … Read more
New Developer Tools & review process are live!
We’re happy to announce that the revamped Developer Tools area of addons.mozilla.org has just launched, bringing in many bugfixes and improvements, as well as support for our new review process. … Read more
Help us test the new Developer Tools
The AMO team has been working on a complete rewrite of our Developer Tools area for several months, and we hope to launch them this Thursday at the earliest. Developer … Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2011/01/04
Summary These posts written every 2 weeks explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process … Read more