SDK 1.4: known issue with hard-coding resource URIs
The Jetpack project released Addon SDK version 1.4 yesterday; this release is likely the most significant release of the SDK since 1.0 in June, and includes a number of improvements. … Read more
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Jetpack Project: weekly update for January 10th, 2012
Project News We released SDK 1.4 today which includes important new features including a new module loader implementation, as well as the simple-prefs module. Wladimir Palant blogged about measuring memory … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.4!
The Jetpack team is proud to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.4! This version of the SDK has the most new features of all the releases we have made … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for January 3rd, 2012
Project News Happy New Year! Matteo Ferretti recently landed initial mobile support for the page-mod module in pull request 301 Watch this space for additional posts on creating mobile addons … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for Dec. 20th, 2011
Project News Firefox developer Tim Taubert blogged about an interesting technique for getting Firefox’s native websocket implementation working on IRC Cloud using an SDK-based add-on. Frustrated with debugging geolocation code? … Read more
SDK 1.3 performance impact
Recently Jorge Villalobos ran some tests to measure the impact of using the SDK on Firefox start-up time. Jorge published his finding to the Jetpack google news group. His results … Read more
Just Landed: Simple Prefs API
On November 28, Myk Melez closed pull request 270, which added the new ‘simple-prefs’ module to the Addon SDK. This addition to the SDK’s addon-kit apis is special for a … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for Dec. 6th, 2011
Project News As Justin Scott noted here, addons.mozilla.org was down yesterday for some time or was responding very slowly. This seems to have been resolved but Mozilla IT is continuing … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for Nov. 29, 2011
Project News Shipped SDK 1.3 Landed initial implementation of the Preferences API (although this won’t make it into 1.3). Encouraging results from the latest round of performance testing for SDK-based … Read more