Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/09/05
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues … Read more
Jorge Villalobos
Java 7 Update Notification Now Live
A serious Java vulnerability was made public earlier this week, which is being actively exploited by attackers. Oracle released an update that fixed this vulnerability today, so we are now … Read more
Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 15
Firefox 15 will be released tomorrow (sorry for the late post!). Here’s a list of changes that went into Firefox 15 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information … Read more
Blocking old versions of Silverlight on Mac OS X
Old versions of the Silverlight plugin for Mac OS X have been added to the Firefox add-on blocklist. We did this because these versions of the plugin are causing instability … Read more
Exposing add-on objects to content safely
Add-ons often need to interact with page content, and mixing privileged and unprivileged code can be tricky thing to get right without compromising security. Unintentionally exposing privileged objects to web … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/08/20
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues … Read more
New Java Blocklist
The June 2012 update to the Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) included a patch to correct a critical vulnerability that can permit the loading of arbitrary … Read more
Why you should make your next add-on restartless + more
Wladimir Palant, lead developer of the very popular Adblock Plus add-on has a couple of interesting posts up in his blog. In his first article, Why you should make your … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/07/05
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues … Read more