On Fat Plug and AMO
Recently, there’s been some discussion on our position regarding the Fat Plug ad platform and our editorial policy that prevents its inclusion in our add-on directory. Since we believe that … Read more
Articles in “policy”
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/04/13
Summary These bi-weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this … Read more
Personas Review Queue, Mature Content, and more
Since the launch of Firefox 3.6 we’ve seen an enormous spike the number of personas submitted a day. Sometimes we get over 3,000 submissions! While we’re excited that so many … Read more
Proposed changes to unreviewed add-ons
For the past 3 years, AMO has allowed add-ons that have not been reviewed by our editor team to be downloaded by the public. As we work to make AMO … Read more
Private Browsing Support to be required for add-ons
Firefox 3.5 introduced the Private Browsing Mode feature. This feature allows users to browse freely without having any browsing information recorded on their history, or cookies stored in the system. … Read more
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
Add-on Review Process Redesign
Hello. My name is Jorge Villalobos, and I’m the new (first, really) Add-ons Developer Relations Lead at Mozilla. I’ll be working on bringing the add-on developer community and Mozilla closer … 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
Removing the Sandbox
The “Sandbox Model” addons.mozilla.org uses to organize and review add-ons was first announced almost 3 years ago. Since then, we’ve made a number of changes based on user feedback that, … Read more