ColorZilla lets you get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly make adjustments to it, and paste it into another program. It also generates gradients and more, making it an indispensable add-on for designers and artists. For … Continue reading
AdBlock for Firefox is a fast and powerful ad blocker with over 40 million users. They have finished transitioning to WebExtensions, by way of porting their data using Embedded WebExtensions. You can read more about the AdBlock extension here. For … Continue reading
To help facilitate more mutual support among developers migrating and porting to WebExtensions, we asked the add-on developer community to sign up for blocks of time when they can be available to assist each other. This week, we published the … Continue reading
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 surfaced more useful information and links. The topmost button you … Continue reading
Since the transition to WebExtensions began, people have contributed bug fixes, APIs, documentation, and tons of valuable feedback. Contributors have given talks about WebExtensions at events all over the world, and developers have taken on the sometimes immense task of … Continue reading
In March, we released a survey asking add-on developers which APIs they need to transition successfully to WebExtensions. So far, 235 people have responded, and we’ve summarized some of the findings in these slides. Developers with the most add-ons responded … Continue reading
Today’s post comes from Piro, the developer of Popup ALT Attribute, in addition to 40 other add-ons. He shares his thoughts about migrating XUL/XPCOM add-ons to WebExtensions, and shows us how he did it with Popup ALT Attribute. You can … Continue reading
As you may have heard, there are a lot of changes coming up for add-on development. By the end of 2017, we will transition to WebExtensions as the standard for creating add-ons. Over the same period of time, existing methods … Continue reading
Our newest Friend of Add-ons is Johann Hofmann! Johann is active in the Rust ecosystem, and has been contributing to WebExtensions in the past few months. He explains, “I like that the WebExtensions project enables me to have such a … Continue reading
Pick of the Month: uMatrix by Raymond Hill uMatrix is a point-and-click matrix-based firewall, putting you in full control of where your browser is allowed to connect, what type of data it is allowed to download, and what it is … Continue reading
