Know Thy Add-on User
Mark Cramer is a guest writer for the AMO blog. He is CEO of SurfCanyon, the creators of the SurfCanyon Firefox add-on. Creating software in a vacuum is incredibly difficult. … Read more
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Successfully Getting your Addon Reviewed
Thanks to AMO Editor Cesar Oliveira for allowing us to repost this here: As the addon review queue grows beyond 600 nominated and updated addons, it is more important than … Read more
The Quick & Dirty Way to Test Your Add-ons in Fx 3.1b2
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, we’re pretty hot on getting as many add-ons as possible up to Firefox 3.1 beta 2 compliance. For users, it’s extremely important that the add-ons … Read more
Public Service Announcement: Update your add-ons to 3.1
3.1 is coming! We know that many add-on developers have held off on testing for 3.1 compatibility because they’re waiting for a near-final release to test against. I’m happy to … Read more
Add-On-Con: The Add-on Community Front & Center
Last week saw the culmination of many months of hard work by the add-ons community to put on an event that allowed them to express their opinions and share their … Read more
How to update your extension to Firefox 3.1beta2
Firefox 3.1 Beta2 is here ! As we said before, it’s time to update your add-ons. Many add-ons should work out of the box with beta2. Others might need a … Read more
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2: Time to start updating add-ons
Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 is coming. This beta will be add-on compatibility frozen. That means it’s safe to update your add-ons. Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 will likely be released the … Read more
1 Billion Add-on Downloads
This morning, addons.mozilla.org reached a huge milestone: we served our 1 billionth add-on download since we started keeping track of downloads in 2005. This number only includes downloads from addons.mozilla.org, … Read more
Fashion Your Firefox: A New Distribution Channel for Add-ons
While savvy Firefox users have reaped the benefits of add-ons for some time, reaching out to new users has been a bit of a challenge. We’ve been looking for ways … Read more