Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 19
Firefox 19 will be released on February 19th. Here’s the list of changes that went into this version that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox … Read more
Help us select featured add-ons!
When add-ons are featured, they gain visibility and downloads; the developers are rewarded for their efforts, and users are assured the add-ons are vetted and useful. Starting this Spring, in … Read more
The Add-on SDK: coming soon to Firefox 21
I thought I’d shamelessly quote and link to an exciting post by Dave Townsend ( aka Mossop ) who is the engineering manager for the Jetpack team: We’re now a … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.13.1
The Jetpack team would like to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.13.1, which addresses several issues: Reverted context menu items in sub-menus to display by default as they did … Read more
Per-Window Private Browsing and the SDK
Erik Vold has been working hard to implement support for Per-Window Private Browsing in the SDK, and he posted a summary of the work and how it will impact add-on … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2013/01/30
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. In case you … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for January 29, 2013
Project News We released SDK 1.13 today! Irakli wrote an interesting post ‘Isolate.js via AST analysis‘ that discusses a novel solution to the problem of passing JS code across compartment … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.13
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.13 today! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. As well, Add-on SDK 1.13 is now … Read more
Adobe Flash 10.2.* and lower are now Click-to-Play
As part of a larger effort to put users in control of their plugins, we have enabled Click-to-Play on old versions of the Adobe Flash Player plugin. For versions 10.2.* … Read more