Jetpack Project: weekly update for March 19, 2013
Project News We are releasing SDK 1.14rc2 tomorrow, which will also likely be tagged tomorrow as the 1.14 release candidate. In addition to this we are coordinating with the Firefox … Read more
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Per-window private browsing and the Add-on SDK
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
Jetpack: The Road Ahead ( Part 2 )
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 … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for February 19, 2013
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, … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.13.2
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 … Read more
The Add-on SDK: coming soon to Firefox 21
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 … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.13.1
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 … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.13
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 … Read more
Changes to “require()” syntax
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