Add-ons in 2017
A little more than a year ago we started talking about where add-ons were headed, and what the future would look like. It’s been busy, and we wanted to give everyone an update as well as provide guidance on what … Continue reading
A little more than a year ago we started talking about where add-ons were headed, and what the future would look like. It’s been busy, and we wanted to give everyone an update as well as provide guidance on what … Continue reading
Hacktoberfest is an event organized by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub. It encourages contributions to open source projects during the month of October. This year the webextensions-examples project participated. “webextensions-examples” is a collection of simple but complete and installable WebExtensions, … Continue reading
Firefox 52 landed in Developer Edition this week, so we have another update on WebExtensions for you. WebExtensions are becoming the standard for add-on development in Firefox. API Parity The sessions API was added to Firefox, with sessions.getRecentlyClosed and sessions.restore … Continue reading
Here’s the state of the add-ons world this month. The Review Queues In the past month, 1,732 listed add-on submissions were reviewed: 1,340 (77%) were reviewed in fewer than 5 days. 130 (8%) were reviewed between 5 and 10 days. … Continue reading
Since the transition to WebExtensions began, people have contributed bug fixes, APIs, documentation, and tons of valuable feedback. Contributors have given talks about WebExtensions at events all over the world, and developers have taken on the sometimes immense task of … Continue reading
Pick of the Month: Blur by Abine Secure all of your personal information online—passwords, shopping accounts and more, plus tracking protection. “It’s almost impossible to keep up with the number of passwords that we must have for various sites. What … Continue reading