Better Safe than Sorry
Over on the Adblock Plus blog, Wladimir Palant has posted two great articles on how to avoid making some common mistakes in extension development that lead to security vulnerabilities. I … Read more
Add-on Statistics Status
An update on the ongoing stats issues from Wil Clouser: This is the second update about add-ons’ statistics. Read part one. Statistics for both update pings and download counts have … Read more
Making Extension Development Easier
As we mentioned in our brown bag last week, one of our goals is how we can make Firefox extension development a better experience. We’ve listened to the community, taken … Read more
Slides for today’s presentation
A friendly reminder- we’ll be talking today at 12:30 PM PST on air.mozilla.com (Firefox 3.1 required). For those of you who like to read ahead, here are the slides: AMO … Read more
How to develop a Firefox extension
Update: Firefox has used the WebExtensions API as its extension API since 2017. We encourage you to visit Extension Workshop to learn more about browser extensions and how you can … Read more
What’s going on in AMO for 2009?
Excellent question. Join us for an AMO brown bag session hosted on http://air.mozilla.com at 12:30PM PST on Thursday, January 29. Justin Scott and I will be covering the following: Vision … Read more
Statistics Update
Wil Clouser, our AMO Dev lead, has an update on our work with fixing our problems with statistics. [Reprinted from his blog] Add-on statistics have been intermittent for a couple … Read more
Know Thy Add-on User
Mark Cramer is a guest writer for the AMO blog. He is CEO of SurfCanyon, the creators of the SurfCanyon Firefox add-on. Creating software in a vacuum is incredibly difficult. … Read more
Firefox Extensions: Global Namespace Pollution
Reposted with permission from Jan Odvarko (AKA Honza): I have been recently asked by couple of developers how to properly design architecture of a Firefox extension. The first thing that … Read more