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
Articles in “documentation”
Add-on development just got easier
We’re very excited to announce that we’ve just launched the Add-on Developer Hub (beta), the one-stop-shop for add-on developers to find out why they’d want to make an add-on, how … Read more
Coming Up for AMO
We launched Collections in June, Contributions in July, and the response to both has been amazing. What’s next for AMO? Here are some summaries of our upcoming projects. Collections Phase … Read more
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
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
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
How to develop a Firefox extension
Update: Firefox has used the WebExtensions API as its extension API since 2017. We encourage you to visit Extension Workshop to learn more about browser extensions and how you can … Read more
Firefox Extensions: Global Namespace Pollution
Reposted with permission from Jan Odvarko (AKA Honza): I have been recently asked by couple of developers how to properly design architecture of a Firefox extension. The first thing that … Read more