Mozilla Sponsors the First Annual Add-On-Con
Anyone that’s been doing add-on development for awhile is sure to relate when I say that the add-on arena is aggressively expanding in a very positive way. We’re starting to … Read more
1 Billion Add-on Downloads
This morning, addons.mozilla.org reached a huge milestone: we served our 1 billionth add-on download since we started keeping track of downloads in 2005. This number only includes downloads from addons.mozilla.org, … Read more
Fashion Your Firefox: A New Distribution Channel for Add-ons
While savvy Firefox users have reaped the benefits of add-ons for some time, reaching out to new users has been a bit of a challenge. We’ve been looking for ways … Read more
Identifying migration issues between Firefox 3.0 and 3.1
Hello, In order to help add-on authors migrate to Firefox 3.1, the Mozilla evangelism team is working on documenting changes between Firefox 3.0 and Firefox 3.1 which could affect extensions. … Read more
3.1 Compatibility Update
Justin Scott has worked hard on creating a compatibility dashboard to help us understand how the add-ons universe is preparing for new versions of Firefox. The live version is up … Read more
Lifehacker’s Favorite Experimental Add-ons
Lifehacker wrote an article on their favorite experimental Firefox extensions today. Great article, and worth a read. See also: See the newest experimental extensions on addons.mozilla.org Lifehacker: Experimental Extensions We’d … Read more
Firefox 3.1 Add-on Compatibility Tracking
Cross-posted from Justin Scott’s blog. I recently posted about the start of the campaign to get add-ons ready for the upcoming release of Firefox 3.1, and wanted to explain what … Read more
Add-on Developers Survey: Raw Results
We recently conducted a survey of the add-on developer community. This post summarizes the quantitative results and some key findings only. There were several open-ended questions included on the survey. … Read more
Add-on Developer Survey
The Mozilla add-ons team is always looks for insights in order to improve the development experience and toolset for add-ons authors. We have put together a Add-on Developer Survey that … Read more