Jetpack Project: weekly update for May 08, 2012
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 … Read more
Articles from May, 2012
Memshrink progress, leaky add-ons and older SDK versions.
TL;DR: PLEASE Re-pack your add-ons with the latest SDK! The SDK team has been collaborating with the Memshrink team to identify and fix various ‘zombie’ compartment leaks and similar issues. … Read more
Spring cleaning: changes to require and self in the SDK
Irakli recently posted a ‘Spring Cleaning’ todo list ( https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/wiki/Spring-cleaning-2012 ) of changes we are proposing to make to the SDK in the next few months. While most of these … Read more
Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin blocked on Mac OS X
The Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin is currently causing problems for most Mac OS X users who have it installed. In the majority of cases, the plugin shows a blank page … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/05/03
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 … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for May 1, 2012
Project News Jetpack contributor Hernán Colmeiro gave not 1, not 2 but 3 talks in Buenos Aires and Santiago last week on the SDK: “Add-on SDK, what is it? How … Read more