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 available to assist each other. This week, we published the … Continue reading
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 Firefox on by default, and will be restricting binary access … Continue reading
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 the responses and a few months of deliberation and experimentation, … Continue reading
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 declared to be compatible with Multiprocess Firefox. Compatibility shims will … Continue reading
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 year. The Review Queues In the past month, 1,670 listed … Continue reading
With last week’s product update, we introduced a new look for the main and top-level listing pages of the Developer Hub. We went for a modern and friendly design, and surfaced more useful information and links. The topmost button you … Continue reading
Firefox add-on developers are free to distribute their add-ons as they see fit, as long as they aren’t forced on users. This comes down to two distribution methods: list it on addons.mozilla.org (AMO), or distribute it themselves via a Web … Continue reading
Firefox 53 landed in Developer Edition this week, so we have another update on WebExtensions for you. With the latest release, a slew of new APIs are now available to help legacy add-on developers transition and extension developers port from … Continue reading
Updated 2017-01-25: Thanks for the feedback given on this post. To lessen the impact of this change on developers, we’ve clarified our policy and updated this post such that it applies only to new add-ons, and those that do not … Continue reading
WebExtensions are the new standard for add-on development in Firefox, and will be the only supported type of extension in release versions of Firefox later this year. Starting in Firefox 57, which is scheduled to arrive in November 2017, extensions … Continue reading
