The contributions feature was launched over 8 years ago to give developers an easy way to receive compensation for their add-ons on AMO (addons.mozilla.org). This system relied on an integration with the PayPal API, which often caused problems. It didn’t … Continue reading
Earlier this year, we shared with you our compatibility plan for Firefox. As anticipated, Firefox 57 will be released in late November, only allowing add-ons using the WebExtensions API. However, we have received some questions from developers on how this … Continue reading
Firefox 57 is now on the Nightly channel (along with a shiny new logo!). And while it isn’t disabling legacy add-ons just yet, it will soon. There should be no expectation of legacy add-on support on this or later versions. … Continue reading
Firefox add-on staff and contributors gathered at Mozilla’s recent All Hands meeting in San Francisco to spend time as a group focusing on our biggest priority this year: the Firefox 57 release in November. During the course of the week, … Continue reading
We’re changing the way we calculate add-on usage statistics on AMO so they better reflect their real-world usage. This change will go live on the site later this week. The user count is a very important part of AMO. We … Continue reading
Firefox add-on developers are free to distribute their add-ons as they see fit, as long as they aren’t forced on users. This comes down to two distribution methods: list it on addons.mozilla.org (AMO), or distribute it themselves via a Web … Continue reading
AMO is the central hub for developers to distribute their add-ons, and for users to discover them. It’s a workhorse of a site, serving as a publishing platform, online community, and marketplace where over 1 million add-ons are downloaded each … Continue reading
Update: as of now (1:10pm PT), it looks like all major features are back to normal. Due to a recent server migration, AMO has been experiencing some problems for the past few hours. While the site is up, installing and … Continue reading
*****June 15, 2015 Update: Design chosen!***** Mozillians love their t-shirts. And Firefox users love their add-ons. Add-ons let you completely customize your browser, from the way it looks to the way it behaves. To celebrate the community of add-on developers … Continue reading
Add-on developers might have noticed a recent reduction in their active daily users counts on AMO. This was due to large gaps in the daily stats where the daily user count for various days was 0. It’s a problem we … Continue reading
