Rocket Your Firefox Contest at the Mozilla Summit
During Mozilla Summit last week, we held a contest for all attendees aimed at getting them involved in developing add-ons with the Mozilla Add-ons SDK. We had 17 entries from … Read more
Add-on security vulnerability announcement
One malicious add-on and another add-on with a serious security vulnerability were discovered recently on the Mozilla Add-ons site. Both issues have been dealt with, and the details are described … Read more
2 Billion Firefox Add-on Downloads!
This morning, addons.mozilla.org reached a huge milestone: we served our 2 billionth Firefox Add-on download. This exciting feat was made possible by the huge community of people who have made … Read more
What are Your Favorite Add-ons of All Time?
It’s hard to believe, but we are about to reach the 2 Billion download milestone for add-ons this week! We would like to commemorate this special occasion by asking you, … Read more
Announcing Jetpack SDK 0.5
The Jetpack team is excited to announce the launch of Jetpack SDK 0.5. This latest release offers more APIs for you to build add-ons with. For instance, one of the … Read more
Last Week to Register for the Mozilla Add-ons Workshop
We’re less than one week away from the Mozilla Add-ons Workshop, happening in London! We’ve planned a jam-packed evening with Mozilla evangelists, developers, and community members talking about: Firefox Add-ons: … Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/06/22
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
How to Improve Extension Startup Performance
Mozilla is fighting poor performance in Firefox on many fronts. Firefox 3.6 was already a significant improvement over 3.5, and Firefox 4 promises to be lightning fast. However, Firefox is … Read more
Multiple breaking changes are coming for components in extensions
Are you an extension or application developer? Have you written any XPCOM components, JS, binary or otherwise? If not you can probably ignore the rest of this post, unless you … Read more