Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/11/29
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
Articles from November, 2012
Jetpack Project: weekly update for November 28, 2012
Project News The rewrite of the context-menu has landed, and should be included in the 1.13 release of the SDK. This fixes lots of long-standing context-menu bugs. There will be … Read more
Java 7 Update 7 Blocked
Jata 7 Update 7 is vulnerable to a critical security bug that could lead attackers to compromise the user’s system through the Java plugin. The vulnerability is currently being exploited, … Read more
Firefox 17 Compatibility Update
Firefox 17 was released yesterday, and there a couple of notable compatibility issues that have surfaced and are worth pointing out. Tab Mix Plus currently incompatible The popular Tab Mix … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for November 20, 2012
Project News SDK 1.12RC1 ships today, there are just some documentation updates for it The Jetpack team’s joining the Developer Tools group: this is in line with our desire to … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for November 13, 2012
Project News Half the team are in Singapore for Mozcamp Asia, where they’ll be talking about mobile development and adding Firefox features using the SDK. SDK 1.12b2 shipped today. This … Read more
Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 17
Firefox 17 will be released on November 20th. Here’s the list of changes that went into Firefox 17 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/11/07
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. The Review Queues … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for November 06, 2012
Project News Jetpack engineer Eddy Bruel gave a talk recently at Amsterdam JS on his work on Spidermonkey and how the guts of the JS engine work. Eddy also recently … Read more