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Andy McKay

Andy is an Engineering Manager at Mozilla. As a Canadian he tweets and blogs about curling, skiing, politics, maple syrup, bears and all things from the great white north.

WebExtensions in Firefox 50

Firefox 50 landed in Developer Edition this week, so we have another update on WebExtensions for you!Please use the WebExtensions API for any new add-on development, and consider porting your … Read more

“Restart Required” Badge on AMO

When add-ons were first introduced as a way to personalize Firefox, they required a restart of Firefox upon installation. Then came “restartless” extensions, which made the experience of installing an … Read more

WebExtensions support on AMO

It’s been possible to submit WebExtensions add-ons to addons.mozilla.org (AMO) since February, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the improvements we’ve made since then that … Read more

Multi-process Firefox and AMO

In Firefox 48, which reaches the release channel on August 1, 2016, multi-process support (code name “Electrolysis”, or “e10s”) will begin rolling out to Firefox users without any add-ons installed. … Read more

AMO technical architecture

addons.mozilla.org (AMO) has been around for more than 12 years, making it one of the oldest websites at Mozilla. It celebrated its 10th anniversary a couple of years ago, as … Read more

WebExtensions in Firefox 48

We last updated you on our progress with WebExtensions when Firefox 47 landed in Developer Edition (Aurora), and today we have an update for Firefox 48, which landed in Developer … Read more

WebExtensions in Firefox 47

We last updated you on our progress with WebExtensions when Firefox 46 landed in Developer Edition (Aurora), and today we have an update for Firefox 47, which landed in Developer … Read more