Add-on Metadata & Start-up Time
One of the best features of Firefox 4 is the entirely re-designed Add-ons Manager that displays more details than ever before about the add-ons you have installed. Screenshots, ratings, reviews, … Read more
An Overview of the AMO Review Process
Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote a long post detailing our add-on review process. It has been a few weeks since the launch of the new developer tools, and … Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2011/02/02
Summary These posts written every 2 weeks explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. A few weeks ago, a new version of the … Read more
Announcing Add-on SDK 1.0b2
The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.0b2. This version, the second in the series of beta releases of Mozilla’s downloadable software development kit for … Read more
Blocking the Skype Toolbar in Firefox
The Skype Toolbar for Firefox is an extension that detects phone numbers in web pages, and re-renders them as a clickable button that can be used to dial the number … Read more
The Jetpack 2011 Roadmap
“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good!” It’s been almost a year since Mozilla decided to build a team to productize the Jetpack project’s vision and technologies, … Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2011/01/18
Summary These posts written every 2 weeks explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. Last week a new version of the Developer Tools … Read more
Threads and Workers for Add-ons in Firefox 4
The upcoming Firefox 4 includes a ton of significant changes, many of which have a direct effect on add-ons. The majority of these changes are just new and different ways … Read more
New Contributions features
Riding along with AMO’s large Developer Tools update last Thursday were two new features to our Contributions program. It’s now possible for add-on developers to request that contributions be made … Read more