SDK 1.3 performance impact
Recently Jorge Villalobos ran some tests to measure the impact of using the SDK on Firefox start-up time. Jorge published his finding to the Jetpack google news group. His results … Read more
Articles from 2011
Just Landed: Simple Prefs API
On November 28, Myk Melez closed pull request 270, which added the new ‘simple-prefs’ module to the Addon SDK. This addition to the SDK’s addon-kit apis is special for a … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2011/12/07
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. AMO Outage We … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for Dec. 6th, 2011
Project News As Justin Scott noted here, addons.mozilla.org was down yesterday for some time or was responding very slowly. This seems to have been resolved but Mozilla IT is continuing … Read more
AMO Network Outage
addons.mozilla.org and many other Mozilla services are currently experiencing a network outage. Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you can view the current status here. Thanks for … Read more
Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 10
Firefox 10 was pushed to the Aurora channel a few weeks ago, so it’s time again to round up all bugs that could be breaking add-on compatibility. It’s a pretty … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for Nov. 29, 2011
Project News Shipped SDK 1.3 Landed initial implementation of the Preferences API (although this won’t make it into 1.3). Encouraging results from the latest round of performance testing for SDK-based … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.3!
The Jetpack team is proud to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.3! This version of the SDK has some bugfixes, and some new features. Highlights of this release are: … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for Nov. 22, 2011
Project News Alexandre Poirot blogged about changes in the Localization proposal. Last Saturday’s SDK hack day, thanks in particular to the Chico State open source team who drove 3 hours … Read more