Are you an extensions enthusiast? Do you want to help people find excellent ways to improve their browsing experience? If so, please consider applying to join our Featured Extensions Community Board! Every six months, we assemble a small group of … Continue reading
For the last five years, Mozilla has participated in the Outreachy program to provide three-month internships for people from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech. From December 2017 – March 2018, interns Ravneet Kaur and Natalia Milavanova worked under the guidance … Continue reading
Firefox users love using extensions to personalize their browsing experience. Now, it’s easier than ever for developers with working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and CSS to create extensions for Firefox using the WebExtensions API. New and improved WebExtensions APIs land … Continue reading
Our newest Friend of Add-ons is Trishul Goel! Trishul first became involved with Mozilla five years when he was introduced to the Firefox OS smartphone. As a JavaScript developer with an interest in Mozilla’s mission, he looked for opportunities to … Continue reading
For over a dozen years, extension developers have volunteered their time and skills to review extensions submitted to addons.mozilla.org (AMO). While they primarily focused on ensuring that an extension’s code adhered to Mozilla’s add-on policies, they also moderated the content … Continue reading
Do you love add-ons? Have a keen appreciation for great functionality? Interested in making a huge impact on AMO? If so, consider applying to join our Featured Add-ons Community Board! The board is comprised of a small group of add-ons … Continue reading
Please meet our newest Friend of Add-ons, Sylvain Giroux! Sylvain has been creating extensions for Firefox since 2007 and began contributing to addons.mozilla.org (AMO) as an add-on reviewer in 2015. While he had originally planned to help with the add-on … Continue reading
Our newest Friend of Add-ons is Santosh Viswanatham! Santosh attended a regional event hosted by Mozilla Rep Srikar Ananthula in 2012 and has been an active leader in the community ever since. Having previously served as a Firefox Student Ambassador … Continue reading
We asked Giorgio Maone, developer of the popular security extension NoScript, to share his experience about migrating to WebExtension APIs. Originally released in 2005, NoScript was developed to address security vulnerabilities in browsers by pre-emptively blocking scripts from untrusted websites. … Continue reading
Firefox add-on staff and contributors gathered at Mozilla’s recent All Hands meeting in San Francisco to spend time as a group focusing on our biggest priority this year: the Firefox 57 release in November. During the course of the week, … Continue reading
