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
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
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
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
Project News Jetpack contributor Hernán Colmeiro gave not 1, not 2 but 3 talks in Buenos Aires and Santiago last week on the SDK: “Add-on SDK, what is it? How … Read more
Continuing with our effort to eradicate vulnerable versions of the Java plugin, we are now blocking it for all versions of Mac OS X. We had previously blocked it for … Read more
Update: The winners have been chosen! In 200 words or less, tell us how your favorite Firefox Add-on makes your day more productive, saves you money, or just makes you … Read more
There was a logging failure for the duration of 2012-04-20 19:00 Pacific through 2012-04-22 14:00 Pacific.
Add-on download metrics are unaffected, but the add-on usage metrics for those dates are not available and cannot be recovered. Read more
Project News Alex recently created the locale-updater extension to aid in localizing SDK-based add-ons, and longtime l10n contributor Jean-Bernard Marcon blogged about the workflow for localizing SDK-based add-ons using Alex’s … Read more