Hacktoberfest is an event organized by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub. It encourages contributions to open source projects during the month of October. This year the webextensions-examples project participated. “webextensions-examples” … Read more
In Firefox 30 the Add-on SDK is making a change to the execution environment for content scripts. While this change will not affect most add-ons, some patterns will no longer … Read more
Firefox 22 shipped today, Firefox 23 entered Beta, and Firefox 24 entered Aurora. This is the first time the SDK modules in a release of Firefox have diverged from the … Read more
Update to the update! We’ve now figured out that we only need to repack add-ons that actually use the private-browsing module. If you don’t use private-browsing, you don’t need to … Read more
In version 1.12 we changed the structure of the SDK, removing the idea of “packages” and relocating all the SDK’s modules under the “lib” directory. This changed, and greatly simplified, … Read more
Project News The rewrite of the context-menu has landed, and should be included in the 1.13 release of the SDK. This fixes lots of long-standing context-menu bugs. There will be … Read more
Project News SDK 1.12RC1 ships today, there are just some documentation updates for it The Jetpack team’s joining the Developer Tools group: this is in line with our desire to … Read more
Project News Half the team are in Singapore for Mozcamp Asia, where they’ll be talking about mobile development and adding Firefox features using the SDK. SDK 1.12b2 shipped today. This … Read more
Until now we’ve not had a very well-defined lifecycle for APIs in the Add-on SDK. We’ve said, broadly, that APIs in the addon-kit package are “supported”, meaning we won’t change … Read more