Add-ons for Australis Contest – Overview

Overview | Winner Selection | Prizes | Judges | Rules

May 13, 2014 – The winners are announced!

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Firefox is about to get more beautiful, streamlined, and customizable than ever before, and we’re challenging you to create add-ons that look and feel great in it.

Between March 11 – April 15, 2014, create add-ons that take full advantage of the new design, which opens up new customization opportunities and streamlines the add-on experience in your browser. A panel of judges will pick one winner and two runners-up from each prize category.

All winners will receive Firefox OS phones, and the first-prize winners in each category will also receive a collection of Mozilla gear.

Contest Categories

• Best overall add-on – an add-on that best makes use of the new Australis features, like the new toolbar widgets and tab appearance.
• Best complete theme – a complete theme that most creatively alters the look and feel of Australis.
• Best bookmark add-on – an innovative bookmarking add-on that works well with the Australis theme.

How to Enter

1. Create or update an add-on
2. Submit it to AMO (addons.mozilla.org) for approval
3. Fill out the entry form and include a link to your add-on. Submissions are closed now.

Resources

• Download Australis on the Aurora Channel
• Add-on Developer Documentation
• Add-on Developer Hub on AMO
• Australis docs for add-on developers:
  • CustomizableUI.jsm
  • Australis and add-on compatibility
  • If you use the Add-on SDK: New UI APIs–Buttons, Toolbar, Frame, Sidebar

Light Reading

• What is Australis?
• The Firefox Australis interface
• Australis for Add-on Developers blog post – Part 1: Toolbars
• Australis for Add-on Developers – Part 2: CustomizableUI
• New Add-on SDK Australis UI features in Firefox 29
• Mozilla Hacks blog post

Fine Print

• Up to 3 entries per person per account, but each person may only win one prize in one category, even if the winning add-on has more than one developer.
• Open to all countries
• Add-on must be compatible at least with Firefox 29 (the first version that supports Australis) and Firefox 30.
• Entries may not be a forked version of an existing add-on.
• Mozilla paid staff and contractors may not participate
• Read the complete contest rules »