Join the Firefox Add-ons team at Mozilla’s headquarters in Mountain View for an informative evening of food, drinks, and prizes! Learn best practices for getting your add-ons approved, and hear case studies about developers who have built successful businesses around … Continue reading
Project News Edward Lee released his splendid ‘Copy Selected‘ add-on, based on the SDK, complete with source available on gihub. Irakli created pages on the Gitub wiki for some new proposed changes to the SDK including re-usable Content Scripts, Disposables … Continue reading
Since we implemented Add-ons Default to Compatible, most add-ons that were updated to work on Firefox 4 continue to work on the latest releases. The add-on compatibility problems we’ve had ever since have been minimal. However, there are still a … Continue reading
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. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 1 … Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.8b2 is being released today. Irakli’s scratch-kit add-on now turns code samples in the SDK docs into executable example add-ons. Try it out: install the XPI, and follow the instructions. Hopefully, when cfx-js lands, we’ll be able … Continue reading
When an add-on receives featured status, it assures downloads, notoriety, and a provides a healthy dose of congratulations to the developer for their hard work and good idea. Many add-on developers see becoming featured as essential to an add-ons success, … Continue reading
Project News We released Add-on SDK 1.7 today. Please see the blog post and release notes for more info. Nicholas Nethercote’s latest blog post mentions some progress on Nightly that will mitigate the problems users could see when using add-ons … Continue reading
The Jetpack team is happy to announce the release of Add-on SDK version 1.7! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. This version of the SDK is mostly a bug-fix release but with a few … Continue reading
Firefox 13 has been in beta for a while now, so this blog post is a bit overdue. Here’s an almost comprehensive list of the changes that went into Firefox 13 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information … Continue reading
Project News Mozillian Jono Xia gave a quick talk at the Monday project meeting to show off his new ‘Tab Reaper‘ extension which employs some clever tricks to bookmark and close tabs you haven’t looked at recently. Yesterday morning I … Continue reading
