Jeff Griffiths
In my last post I talked about the process currently underway to shift SDK development to match the Firefox release schedule. This work has taken up a ton of time over the last year or so, but most of the … Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths
Until now the SDK has been released every 6 weeks, 3 weeks offset from Firefox releases. We are breaking this established release schedule and switching to release the SDK’s APIs in Firefox itself, starting with Firefox 21. The process will … Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths
Project News Hot on the heels of last week’s 1.13.2 patch release, Add-on Builder and the AMO Validator have been updated to support this new version. If you haven’t already, please update your add-on to this new version! Alex posted … Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths
Project News We released Add-on SDK 1.13.2 earlier today to address a number of issues with previous 1.13 releases. If you were holding out on re-packing your add-on with the latest and greatest, please do so as soon as possible! … Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths
The Jetpack team would like to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.13.2, which addresses several issues, including a P1 Memshrink bug: Opening and closing browser windows seems to add FragmentOrElement objects to the CC graph when Addon SDK addons … Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths
I thought I’d shamelessly quote and link to an exciting post by Dave Townsend ( aka Mossop ) who is the engineering manager for the Jetpack team: We’re now a big step closer to shipping the SDK APIs with Firefox … Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths
The Jetpack team would like to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.13.1, which addresses several issues: Reverted context menu items in sub-menus to display by default as they did in 1.12 ( bug 836318 ) Fixed an issue where … Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths
Erik Vold has been working hard to implement support for Per-Window Private Browsing in the SDK, and he posted a summary of the work and how it will impact add-on authors yesterday: To put the change simply, before with global … Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths
Project News We released SDK 1.13 today! Irakli wrote an interesting post ‘Isolate.js via AST analysis‘ that discusses a novel solution to the problem of passing JS code across compartment and even process or system boundaries. You should read Will’s … Continue reading
Jeff Griffiths
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.13 today! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. As well, Add-on SDK 1.13 is now live and available for Add-on Builder users. What’s new? Dave … Continue reading