Announcing Add-on SDK 1.7!
The Jetpack team is happy to announce the release of Add-on SDK version 1.7! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. This version of the … Read more
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Jetpack Project: weekly update for May 08, 2012
Project News Mozillian Jono Xia gave a quick talk at the Monday project meeting to show off his new ‘Tab Reaper‘ extension which employs some clever tricks to bookmark and … Read more
Memshrink progress, leaky add-ons and older SDK versions.
TL;DR: PLEASE Re-pack your add-ons with the latest SDK! The SDK team has been collaborating with the Memshrink team to identify and fix various ‘zombie’ compartment leaks and similar issues. … Read more
SDK Compatibility with Extended Support Releases
When Firefox 10 was released, this version was also released as an ‘ESR’ ( or Extended Support Release ) build. ESR releases of Firefox are intended for deployments of Firefox … Read more
Re-packaging your SDK-based Add-ons for Firefox 11
Yesterday the Jetpack project released SDK 1.5. Alongside this Dave Mason pointed out that the upcoming release of Firefox 11 will break compatibility with add-ons packaged with SDK versions 1.3 … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for February 14th, 2012
Project News Next week’s Bay Area Firefox Add-ons meet-up will be at Mozilla’s San Francisco offices on Tuesday, February 21 at 6PM. This month’s meetup features the SDK and Builder, … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for January 31st, 2012
Project News We released two point releases, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 to address issues related to deploying SDk 1.4 on the Add-on Builder site. Jorge pointed out an important compatibility issue … Read more
Add-on SDK Version 1.4.2 Released
Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of 1.4.1, we identified an issue in the SDK where console logging was not happening correctly. Through discussions with the Add-on Builder … Read more
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