Hello, add-on developers!
In our recent developer survey, one of the largest pain points identified by respondents was a lack of documentation and resources for extension developers. A contributing factor to this problem … Read more
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Contributing to a healthy ecosystem
Over the past year, there’s been a growing debate around how add-on developers can receive compensation for the work they put into their add-ons. That’s why we’re looking to launch … Read more
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
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