{"id":1342,"date":"2010-02-17T16:08:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2010-02-17T16:08:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T23:08:36","slug":"updating-to-seamonkey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2010\/02\/17\/updating-to-seamonkey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating and porting your add-ons to SeaMonkey 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seamonkey-project.org\/releases\/seamonkey2.0\/\">SeaMonkey 2.0 has been out for a while<\/a>, and it&#8217;s time for add-on developers to give it some love. If your add-on already works on earlier versions of SeaMonkey, you should update your add-on&#8217;s compatibility as soon as you can. If not, this is a good time to consider adding SeaMonkey compatibility and increasing your usage numbers :).<\/p>\n<p>SeaMonkey 2 is a big improvement from previous releases in terms of add-on support, and Firefox extension developers will find that it&#8217;s easy, sometimes trivial, to add support for SeaMonkey in their extensions. It only took me a couple of hours to add SeaMonkey support to <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/7684\">my own add-on<\/a> (a new version in development at the moment), and this is a fairly complex extension I&#8217;m referring to. Well, that plus a few hours making <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=411536\">an important contribution<\/a> to make it possible to port it ;).<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re curious about SeaMonkey extension support, this article at MDC is the place to go to: <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Extensions_support_in_SeaMonkey_2\">https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Extensions_support_in_SeaMonkey_2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Happy coding!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s easy! SeaMonkey 2.0 has been out for a while, and it&#8217;s time for add-on developers to give it some love. 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