Here’s the monthly update of the state of the add-ons world. The Review Queues In the past month, our team reviewed 1,803 listed add-on submissions: 1368 in fewer than 5 days (76%). 147 between 5 and 10 days (8%). 288 after more … Continue reading
Firefox 56 landed in Beta this week, so it’s time for another update on the WebExtensions transition. Documentation for the APIs discussed here can be found on MDN Web Docs. API changes The browsingData API can now remove cookies by … Continue reading
Firefox 57 is now on the Nightly channel (along with a shiny new logo!). And while it isn’t disabling legacy add-ons just yet, it will soon. There should be no expectation of legacy add-on support on this or later versions. … Continue reading
Our newest Friend of Add-ons is Santosh Viswanatham! Santosh attended a regional event hosted by Mozilla Rep Srikar Ananthula in 2012 and has been an active leader in the community ever since. Having previously served as a Firefox Student Ambassador … Continue reading
In the past year, we’ve added a tremendous amount of add-on documentation to MDN Web Docs. One resource we’ve spent time building out is the Extension Examples repository on GitHub, where you can see sample extension code using various APIs. … Continue reading
Pick of the Month: Grammarly by Grammarly It’s like having an expert proofreader with you at all times. Grammarly offers contextual spell checks (it understands the distinction between “there” and “their” unlike 98% of English-speaking humans) as well as grammar … Continue reading
We asked Giorgio Maone, developer of the popular security extension NoScript, to share his experience about migrating to WebExtension APIs. Originally released in 2005, NoScript was developed to address security vulnerabilities in browsers by pre-emptively blocking scripts from untrusted websites. … Continue reading
