Migrating to WebExtensions? Don’t Forget Your Users
If you’re the developer of a legacy add-on with an aim to migrate to WebExtensions, here are a few tips to consider so your users aren’t left behind. Port your … Read more
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Add-ons Update – 2017/03
Here’s the state of the add-ons world this month. The Road to Firefox 57 explains what developers should look forward to in regards to add-on compatibility for the rest of … Read more
WebExtensions in Firefox 54
Firefox 54 landed in Developer Edition this week, so we have another update on WebExtensions for you. In addition to new APIs to help more developers port over to WebExtensions, … Read more
Improvements to add-on review communications
We recently made some improvements to our tools and processes to better support communication between add-on developers and reviewers. Previously, when you submitted an add-on to addons.mozilla.org (AMO) and a … Read more
Office Hours Support for Transitioning and Porting to WebExtensions
To help facilitate more mutual support among developers migrating and porting to WebExtensions, we asked the add-on developer community to sign up for blocks of time when they can be … Read more
Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 53
If you haven’t yet, please read our roadmap to Firefox 57. Firefox 53 is an important milestone, when we will stop accepting new legacy add-ons on AMO, will turn Multiprocess … Read more
Improving Themes in Firefox
Last year, we started thinking about how to improve themes in Firefox. We asked theme designers and developers for their thoughts too, and received over 250 responses. After sorting through … Read more
The Road to Firefox 57 – Compatibility Milestones
Update: this post was updated to reflect a change in how we determine when Firefox will run in multiprocess mode. Firefox won’t run in multiprocess mode unless add-ons are explicitly … Read more
Add-ons Update – 2017/02
Here’s the state of the add-ons world this month. If you haven’t read Add-ons in 2017, I suggest that you do. It lays out the high-level plan for add-ons this … Read more