No Surprises
Surprises can be appropriate in many situations, but they are not welcome when user security, privacy, and control are at stake. Mozilla is committed to guarding these principles, and we … Read more
Articles in “developers”
New Developer Agreement
Up until now, we’ve had a fairly basic developer agreement that hasn’t changed with the needs of our developers and our service. Today, we’re launching a new agreement that clarifies … Read more
Firefox 3.5.* maxver now available
With the Firefox 3.5b4 release, we’ve enabled the 3.5.* maxver in the AMO Developer tools. For the vast majority of add-ons without binary components, you can simply update your maxver … Read more
Experimental Add-ons, Logins, and You
One of the pieces of feedback in our recent survey was that add-on developers really wanted to remove the login requirement for experimental add-ons. So we did it. Now users … Read more
Video Tutorial – Extensions Bootcamp: Zero to “Hello World” in 45 Minutes
Mozilla’s Myk Melez created a great video introduction to add-on development for Mozilla’s Design Challenge Spring 09. If you’ve be looking for a video walk-through, Myk just served it up … Read more
A very busy month for the AMO team
This last month, we’ve rolled out lots of bug fixes to AMO as well as quite a few enhancements to the site. For the comprehensive list, check out bugzilla. We’d … Read more
Survey results are in!
Big thanks to all of you who completed our developer survey last month. We got over 60 responses and we appreciate the thoughtful and detailed responses. Our top 5 requests … Read more
Firefox 3.5 and add-on compatibility
Last Friday, it was announced that Firefox 3.1 will be renamed to Firefox 3.5. What does this mean for add-on compatibility? Right now, Firefox 3.1b4pre is available as a maxVersion … Read more
Firefox Add-ons Developer Guide (beta release) – Calling all Add-on Developers!
Summary: The Firefox Add-ons Developer Guide is now released in beta. We are now searching for contributors, if you want to help, please see instructions below. Firefox Add-ons Developer Guide … Read more