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 are installed which add an addonbar widget. (Bug 833783) Context-menu reuses the same worker when… Continue reading
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 and other apps, we’ve uplifted the SDK code from our git repository to mozilla-inbound and… Continue reading
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 certain combinations of add-ons could result in an extra separator in the context menu (… Continue reading
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 private browsing a add-on developer need only know if the mode was active or not… Continue reading
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 post on changes to the SDK’s require syntax that we released with SDK 1.12, as… Continue reading
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 Townsend completely re-wrote the context-menu module to be much more reliable and less prone to… Continue reading
Project News Much thanks to Mozillian Marc Chevrier for not only reporting but providing a patch for bug 829651. I love it when developers report into bugs with patches! Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 29 Bugs fixed last week: 18 Total SDK-based Add-ons on AMO: 1,421 Open pull requests on… Continue reading
Project News I blogged last week about the 2013 Jetpack Roadmap; for this first quarter the Jetpack team is hard at work on a set of goals that will result in shipping the core apis in Firefox, quite likely in Firefox 21. If you want to follow that work there are a few different places… Continue reading
Project News It’s a new year! And with that comes a new SDK product road-map for 2013! The blog post is here, and if you have any feedback we’d love to hear about it on this Google groups thread. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 436 Bugs created last week: 17 Bugs fixed last week: 10… Continue reading
During December I worked with the rest of the SDK team as well as other stakeholders to develop a product road-map for the SDK for the next year. This road-map planning is critical as 2013 promises to be a very eventful year for both the Jetpack team and the SDK, and I think a very,… Continue reading
Jeff is Product Manager for the Firefox Developer Tools and occasional Open Web hacker, based in Vancouver, BC.
