Please meet our newest Friend of Add-ons, Prasanth! Prasanth became a Mozillian in 2015 when he joined the Mozilla TamilNadu community and became a Firefox Student Ambassador. Over the last two years, he has contributed to a variety of projects … Continue reading
The Road to Firefox 57 has been updated with a couple of changes to the timeline: Firefox won’t run in multiprocess mode unless all enabled add-ons have the multiprocessCompatible flag set to true or are WebExtensions. This means that developers … Continue reading
AdBlock for Firefox is a fast and powerful ad blocker with over 40 million users. They have finished transitioning to WebExtensions, by way of porting their data using Embedded WebExtensions. You can read more about the AdBlock extension here. For … Continue reading
As of late March, addons.mozilla.org (AMO) has around 2,000 listed add-ons built with WebExtensions APIs, the new cross-browser standard for writing add-ons. Average daily installs for them total more than 5,000,000. That’s nice momentum as we hurtle towards the Firefox … Continue reading
If you’re the developer of a legacy add-on with an aim to migrate to WebExtensions, here are a few tips to consider so your users aren’t left behind. Port your user data If your legacy add-on stores user data, we … Continue reading
Here’s the state of the add-ons world this month. The Road to Firefox 57 explains what developers should look forward to in regards to add-on compatibility for the rest of the year. Please give it a read if you haven’t … Continue reading
Firefox 54 landed in Developer Edition this week, so we have another update on WebExtensions for you. In addition to new APIs to help more developers port over to WebExtensions, we also announced a new Office Hours Support schedule where … Continue reading
We recently made some improvements to our tools and processes to better support communication between add-on developers and reviewers. Previously, when you submitted an add-on to addons.mozilla.org (AMO) and a reviewer emailed you, your replies went to a mailing list … Continue reading
To help facilitate more mutual support among developers migrating and porting to WebExtensions, we asked the add-on developer community to sign up for blocks of time when they can be available to assist each other. This week, we published the … Continue reading
Calling all testers! On March 9, a new look will be coming to addons.mozilla.org (AMO) for Android. This redesign will feature a cleaner, more user-friendly add-ons store on Android devices and tablets. We would love your help to track down … Continue reading
