Today’s post comes from Michel Gutierrez (mig), the developer of Video DownloadHelper, among other add-ons. He shares his story about the process of modernizing his XUL add-on to make it compatible with multiprocess Firefox (e10s). *** Video DownloadHelper (VDH) is … Continue reading
The Python based command line tool, CFX, was what we’ve used to build, run, and test add-ons which used the Add-on SDK in the past. Last August, we released CFX 1.17 and there are no plans to release a new … Continue reading
Update: Firefox has used the WebExtensions API as its extension API since 2017. We encourage you to visit Extension Workshop to learn more about browser extensions and how you can build an extension for Firefox. You can find reference documentation … Continue reading
Firefox 30 will be released on June 10th. Here’s the list of changes that went into this version that can affect add-on compatibility. There is more information available in Firefox 30 for Developers, so you should read that too. General … Continue reading
Since we overhauled our review process earlier this year, we have had three review queues: full review nominations, full review updates and preliminary reviews (nominations and updates in a single queue). With this we struck a difficult but important balance: … Continue reading
Project News SDK 1.2.1 released Wednesday Oct. 19 to address a critical issue. I’m giving an SDK talk this Saturday at Seneca College’s annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium in Toronto. Interesting comparison of browser extension tech from the … Continue reading
