Friend of Add-ons: Jocelyn Li
Our newest Friend of Add-ons is Jocelyn Li! Jocelyn has been an active code contributor to addons.mozilla.org (AMO) since May 2018, when she found a frontend issue that involved broken … Read more
Articles from 2019
Test the new Content Security Policy for Content Scripts
As part of our efforts to make add-ons safer for users, and to support evolving manifest v3 features, we are making changes to apply the Content Security Policy (CSP) to … Read more
Secure your addons.mozilla.org account with two-factor authentication
Accounts on addons.mozilla.org (AMO) are integrated with Firefox Accounts, which lets you manage multiple Mozilla services from one login. To prevent unauthorized people from accessing your account, even if they … Read more
2019 Add-ons Community Meetup in London
At the end of October, the Firefox add-ons team hosted a day-long meetup with a group of privacy extension developers as part of the Mozilla Festival in London, UK. With … Read more
Extensions in Firefox 71
Firefox 71 is a light release in terms of extension changes. I’d like to tell you about a few interesting improvements nevertheless. Thanks to Nils Maier, there have been various … Read more
Security improvements in AMO upload tools
We are making some changes to the submission flow for all add-ons (both AMO- and self-hosted) to improve our ability to detect malicious activity. These changes, which will go into … Read more
Upcoming changes to extension sideloading
Sideloading is a method of installing an extension in Firefox by adding an extension file to a special location using an executable application installer. This installs the extension in all … Read more
Add-on Policies Update: Newtab and Search
As part of our ongoing work to make add-ons safer for Firefox users, we are updating our Add-on Policies to add clarification and guidance for developers regarding data collection. The … Read more
Firefox Preview/GeckoView Add-ons Support
Back in June, Mozilla announced Firefox Preview, an early version of the new browser for Android that is built on top of Firefox’s own mobile browser engine, GeckoView. We’ve gotten … Read more