Add-on compatibility for Firefox 4 – time to get started
As most of you are already well aware of, Firefox 4 Beta 1 was released a few weeks ago. Beta 2 will follow very soon, and the final version is … Read more
Articles tagged with “developers”
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/07/20
Summary These bi-weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this … Read more
Add-on Icon Makeover Contest
Add-on Developers: Nominate your add-on for a custom icon makeover from our graphic designer! The icon is an important part of any add-on, as it appears everywhere the add-on does … Read more
Add-on security vulnerability announcement
One malicious add-on and another add-on with a serious security vulnerability were discovered recently on the Mozilla Add-ons site. Both issues have been dealt with, and the details are described … Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/06/22
Summary These bi-weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this … Read more
How to Improve Extension Startup Performance
Mozilla is fighting poor performance in Firefox on many fronts. Firefox 3.6 was already a significant improvement over 3.5, and Firefox 4 promises to be lightning fast. However, Firefox is … Read more
Multiple breaking changes are coming for components in extensions
Are you an extension or application developer? Have you written any XPCOM components, JS, binary or otherwise? If not you can probably ignore the rest of this post, unless you … Read more
Introducing the AMO Editor Guide
Reviewing add-ons is a complicated task, and we haven’t been very good at documenting the whole process. New editors were trained live through IRC, and the training session usually took … Read more
Add-ons Review Update – Week of 2010/06/08
Summary These bi-weekly posts explain the current state of add-on reviews and other information relevant to add-on developers. There’s a lengthy overview of the Add-on Review Process posted in this … Read more