Blocklisting Older Versions of Java
The February 2012 update to the Java Development Kit (JDK) and Java Runtime Environment (JRE) included a patch to correct a critical vulnerability that can permit the loading of arbitrary … Read more
Add-ons Update – Week of 2012/03/22
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
Jetpack Project: weekly update for March 20, 2012
Project News Irakli blogged about the hows and whys of using the SDK’s namespace implementation. Alex updated the Jetpack Google Group with progress on localization features. Quick Stats Total open … Read more
Link: using the SDK’s namespaces implementation
SDK Tech Lead Irakli Gozalishvili blogged today about the intention behind the SDK’s namespace implementation: Sometimes program is written to work with third party, potentially malicious, code which may use … Read more
Add-on Compatibility for Firefox 12
Firefox 12 will be pushed to the beta channel this week, meaning I’m late with my add-on compatibility report :(. Sorry for that, but other things have been taking my … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for March 13th, 2012
Project News I blogged yesterday about SDK compatibility with the Firefox 10 ESR release. Firefox UI designer Stephen Horlander dropped by the weekly meeting this morning and showed us some … Read more
SDK Compatibility with Extended Support Releases
When Firefox 10 was released, this version was also released as an ‘ESR’ ( or Extended Support Release ) build. ESR releases of Firefox are intended for deployments of Firefox … Read more
Add-on Collector Retirement
We have a lot of exciting things in the works for add-ons and add-on collections. Unfortunately, this means we need to take a look at the different projects we support, … Read more
Jetpack Project: weekly update for March 6th, 2012
Project News We’re getting slightly more serious about shipping the SDK’s loader and core libraries in Firefox; see this feature page for some initial thoughts, and subscribe to the related … Read more