{"id":3596,"date":"2011-11-05T01:15:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-05T08:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=3596"},"modified":"2011-11-05T01:15:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-05T08:15:40","slug":"firefox-8-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/11\/05\/firefox-8-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 8 is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 8 is scheduled to be released next <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/RapidRelease\/Calendar\" target=\"_blank\">Tuesday, November 8<\/a>, so we wanted to remind those of you who need to bump the <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/firefox\/compatibility\/8.0?type=all\" target=\"_blank\">compatibility<\/a> of your add-on to do so soon! If you fall into this group, please be sure to read our update on Firefox 8 compatibility <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/09\/01\/add-on-compatibility-for-firefox-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Also, this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/10\/26\/add-ons-update-5\/\" target=\"_blank\">blog post<\/a> has more information on the new features that will affect add-on developers.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know already, one of the things we&#8217;re doing to make rapid releases smoother is automatic compatibility bumps. We run these about a week after a new release, but you need to <strong>submit a version compatible with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/firefox\/channel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aurora channel<\/a> (Firefox 10), or upgrade your existing version on AMO in order to be eligible for an automatic bump.<\/strong> Your new version doesn\u2019t need to be approved by the editor team, but it does need to be on the site. We will run Firefox 10 compatibility tests in a couple of weeks, and email you with information on whether your add-on passed. If it passes you won\u2019t have anything more to do for another 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Please let us know if you have any questions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefox 8 is scheduled to be released next Tuesday, November 8, so we wanted to remind those of you who need to bump the compatibility of your add-on to do &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/11\/05\/firefox-8-is-coming\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[388,44,227],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Firefox 8 is Coming! - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/11\/05\/firefox-8-is-coming\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Amy Tsay\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/11\/05\/firefox-8-is-coming\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2011\/11\/05\/firefox-8-is-coming\/\",\"name\":\"Firefox 8 is Coming! 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