Be part of the next Featured Add-ons board!
When an add-on receives featured status, it assures downloads, notoriety, and a provides a healthy dose of congratulations to the developer for their hard work and good idea. Many add-on … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for May 15, 2012
Project News We released Add-on SDK 1.7 today. Please see the blog post and release notes for more info. Nicholas Nethercote’s latest blog post mentions some progress on Nightly that … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.7!
The Jetpack team is happy to announce the release of Add-on SDK version 1.7! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. This version of the … Read more
Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 13
Firefox 13 has been in beta for a while now, so this blog post is a bit overdue. Here’s an almost comprehensive list of the changes that went into Firefox … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for May 08, 2012
Project News Mozillian Jono Xia gave a quick talk at the Monday project meeting to show off his new ‘Tab Reaper‘ extension which employs some clever tricks to bookmark and … Read more
Memshrink progress, leaky add-ons and older SDK versions.
TL;DR: PLEASE Re-pack your add-ons with the latest SDK! The SDK team has been collaborating with the Memshrink team to identify and fix various ‘zombie’ compartment leaks and similar issues. … Read more
Spring cleaning: changes to require and self in the SDK
Irakli recently posted a ‘Spring Cleaning’ todo list ( https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/wiki/Spring-cleaning-2012 ) of changes we are proposing to make to the SDK in the next few months. While most of these … Read more
Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin blocked on Mac OS X
The Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin is currently causing problems for most Mac OS X users who have it installed. In the majority of cases, the plugin shows a blank page … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/05/03
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