Improving Themes in Firefox
Last year, we started thinking about how to improve themes in Firefox. We asked theme designers and developers for their thoughts too, and received over 250 responses. After sorting through … Read more
Articles from 2017
The Road to Firefox 57 – Compatibility Milestones
Update: this post was updated to reflect a change in how we determine when Firefox will run in multiprocess mode. Firefox won’t run in multiprocess mode unless add-ons are explicitly … Read more
Add-ons Update – 2017/02
Here’s the state of the add-ons world this month. If you haven’t read Add-ons in 2017, I suggest that you do. It lays out the high-level plan for add-ons this … Read more
web-ext 1.8 released
A new version of web-ext has been released! Web-ext is the recommended tool for developing WebExtensions on Firefox, because it has the ability to automatically reload your WebExtension as you … Read more
New Developer Hub landing and listing pages
With last week’s product update, we introduced a new look for the main and top-level listing pages of the Developer Hub. We went for a modern and friendly design, and … Read more
February’s Featured Add-ons
Pick of the Month: Popup Blocker by Jeremy Schomery Not only blocks every popup you encounter, but offers an easy way to preview the URL and decide for yourself if … Read more
Mixing Listed and Unlisted Add-ons on addons.mozilla.org
Firefox add-on developers are free to distribute their add-ons as they see fit, as long as they aren’t forced on users. This comes down to two distribution methods: list it … Read more
WebExtensions in Firefox 53
Firefox 53 landed in Developer Edition this week, so we have another update on WebExtensions for you. With the latest release, a slew of new APIs are now available to … Read more
Preventing Add-ons & Third-party Software From Loading DLLs Into Firefox
Updated 2017-01-25: Thanks for the feedback given on this post. To lessen the impact of this change on developers, we’ve clarified our policy and updated this post such that it … Read more