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
Successfully Getting your Addon Reviewed
Thanks to AMO Editor Cesar Oliveira for allowing us to repost this here: As the addon review queue grows beyond 600 nominated and updated addons, it is more important than … Read more
The Quick & Dirty Way to Test Your Add-ons in Fx 3.1b2
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, we’re pretty hot on getting as many add-ons as possible up to Firefox 3.1 beta 2 compliance. For users, it’s extremely important that the add-ons … Read more
Public Service Announcement: Update your add-ons to 3.1
3.1 is coming! We know that many add-on developers have held off on testing for 3.1 compatibility because they’re waiting for a near-final release to test against. I’m happy to … Read more
Introducing myself
Hi, I’m Nick Nguyen, and I’m the new Add-ons Lead here at Mozilla. Having previously worked on the Delicious Bookmarks extension at Yahoo!, I’ve learned firsthand how Add-ons can be … Read more
Add-On-Con: The Add-on Community Front & Center
Last week saw the culmination of many months of hard work by the add-ons community to put on an event that allowed them to express their opinions and share their … Read more
How to update your extension to Firefox 3.1beta2
Firefox 3.1 Beta2 is here ! As we said before, it’s time to update your add-ons. Many add-ons should work out of the box with beta2. Others might need a … Read more
Mozilla Open House for Add-on Developers
Last week, we announced that we are sponsoring the first ever Add-on-Con conference and we can’t say enough about how excited we are to see this conference happen. Mozilla has … Read more