Review add-ons and get gear!
Our volunteer reviewers make amazing contributions—with more than 3 billion downloads of add-ons on AMO, they are at the front lines ensuring add-ons are safe to use. To recognize their … Read more
Click-to-play plugin blocks coming in Firefox 17
Firefox 17, coming out today on Beta, introduces a new solution for dealing with vulnerable or outdated plugins. Plugins that are blocked with the click-to-play flag will not load by … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for October 09, 2012
Project News Mozilla Labs just pushed out this awesome ‘about:profile‘ add-on that shows an interesting break-down of your web rowsing history – made with the SDK of course! SDK developer … Read more
Possible window load handler failures in Firefox 16
An add-on compatibility problem was recently discovered in Firefox 16. It is present in Firefox 16 and above, and we’re currently investigating it. The problem is that the window load … Read more
Prompting our users to update their plugins
Firefox users who have outdated versions of the most popular plugins will soon see a notification urging them to update when they visit a web page that uses them. Old … Read more
Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 16
Firefox 16 will be released next week. Here’s the list of changes that went into Firefox 16 that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox 16 … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for October 02, 2012
Project News Erik blogged about his excellent work on porting the SDK’s windows and tabs modules to Mobile Firefox! Not to be outdone, Will also blogged about our recently retro-fitted … Read more
A lifecycle for the Add-on SDK’s APIs
Until now we’ve not had a very well-defined lifecycle for APIs in the Add-on SDK. We’ve said, broadly, that APIs in the addon-kit package are “supported”, meaning we won’t change … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/09/26
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. The Review Queues … Read more