Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog

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 46

We last updated you on our progress with WebExtensions when Firefox 45 landed in Developer Edition (Aurora), and today we have an update for Firefox 46, which landed in Developer … Read more

Firefox Accounts on AMO

Update: Firefox Accounts is now live on AMO. In order to provide a more consistent experience across all Mozilla products and services, addons.mozilla.org (AMO) will soon begin using Firefox Accounts. … Read more

Archiving AMO Stats

One of the advantages of listing an add-on or theme on addons.mozilla.org (AMO) is that you’ll get statistics on your add-on’s usage. These stats, which are covered by the Mozilla … Read more

Loading temporary add-ons

With Firefox 43 we’ve enabled add-on signing, which requires add-ons installed in Firefox to be signed. If you are running the Nightly or Dev Edition of Firefox, you can disable … Read more

WebExtensions in Firefox 45

In August we announced that work had begun on the WebExtensions API as the future of developing add-ons in Firefox. This post covers the progress we’ve made since then. WebExtensions … Read more

Signing API now available

Over the years, addons.mozilla.org has had many APIs. These are used by Firefox and other clients to provide add-on listings, blocklists, and other features. But there hasn’t really been an … Read more