Today’s post comes from Piro, the developer of Popup ALT Attribute, in addition to 40 other add-ons. He shares his thoughts about migrating XUL/XPCOM add-ons to WebExtensions, and shows us … Read more
As the transition to WebExtensions continues, we are also building tools to make developing them faster and easier than ever. Our latest is a command line tool called web-ext, which … Read more
A multi-process architecture is finally coming to Firefox. Known by its codename, “Electrolysis” or “e10s,” this project aims to split the Firefox browser into a single process for the UI, … Read more
I’ve been writing about WebExtensions development on my blog. I’ve kept those posts over there because they’re short one-offs that I think would be too noisy for this blog and … Read more
First, a Little Backstory Presently, Firefox supports two main kinds of add-ons. First were XUL or XPCOM add-ons, which interface directly with the browser’s internals. They are fabulously powerful, as … Read more
We last updated you on our progress with WebExtensions when Firefox 46 landed in Developer Edition (Aurora), and today we have an update for Firefox 47, which landed in Developer … Read more
As you may have heard, there are a lot of changes coming up for add-on development. By the end of 2017, we will transition to WebExtensions as the standard for … Read more
Our newest Friend of Add-ons is Johann Hofmann! Johann is active in the Rust ecosystem, and has been contributing to WebExtensions in the past few months. He explains, “I like … Read more
We last updated you on our progress with WebExtensions when Firefox 45 landed in Developer Edition (Aurora), and today we have an update for Firefox 46, which landed in Developer … Read more