Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/02/23
Summary These weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this … Read more
Articles in “developers”
Private Browsing Support to be required for add-ons
Firefox 3.5 introduced the Private Browsing Mode feature. This feature allows users to browse freely without having any browsing information recorded on their history, or cookies stored in the system. … Read more
Updating and porting your add-ons to SeaMonkey 2
It’s easy! SeaMonkey 2.0 has been out for a while, and it’s time for add-on developers to give it some love. If your add-on already works on earlier versions of … Read more
The Add-on Review Process and You
The add-on review process remains a mystery for many add-on developers. As a developer myself, I admit it feels like dropping your add-on into a bottom-less pit and just waiting … Read more
Revamping the Statistics Dashboard
Developers got their first glimpse at detailed statistics for their add-ons in early 2008 when we launched the Developer Statistics Dashboard for every add-on hosted on AMO. Since then, we’ve … Read more
Contributions Sources
Since we launched the Contributions Pilot last summer, thousands of users have helped out their favorite developers with small donations. We’ve continued to expand on the pilot with new features … Read more
Broken executables in extensions in Firefox 3.6
Reposted from my blog in order to spread the word: If you are an extension developer and include executable files in your XPI package (binary or shell scripts) then you … Read more
Firefox 3.6 is here! Are your add-ons up to date?
When Firefox 3.6 beta 1 came out, I let you know that you should start working on your add-on compatibility for 3.6. Did you listen? No? Well, then you’re going … Read more
AMO Category Popularity
If you’re interested in which categories and add-on types are the most popular on AMO, you’ll probably want to check out a blog post I just made that lists the … Read more