Project News Firefox developer Tim Taubert blogged about an interesting technique for getting Firefox’s native websocket implementation working on IRC Cloud using an SDK-based add-on. Frustrated with debugging geolocation code? … Read more
addons.mozilla.org and several other Mozilla services, including the Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview, are currently experiencing performance and availability issues. Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you … Read more
Project News Louis Remi Babe wrote two excellent posts on working with content scripts in the SDK and using jQuery in content scripts. The simple-prefs API has landed on the … Read more
The latest phase of our add-on compatibility plan has arrived in Aurora, and we need your help to test it! Since Firefox 4, we have been automatically making add-ons hosted … Read more
Recently Jorge Villalobos ran some tests to measure the impact of using the SDK on Firefox start-up time. Jorge published his finding to the Jetpack google news group. His results … Read more
On November 28, Myk Melez closed pull request 270, which added the new ‘simple-prefs’ module to the Addon SDK. This addition to the SDK’s addon-kit apis is special for a … 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. AMO Outage We … Read more
Project News As Justin Scott noted here, addons.mozilla.org was down yesterday for some time or was responding very slowly. This seems to have been resolved but Mozilla IT is continuing … Read more
addons.mozilla.org and many other Mozilla services are currently experiencing a network outage. Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you can view the current status here. Thanks for … Read more