{"id":4423,"date":"2012-02-29T16:01:03","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T00:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=4423"},"modified":"2012-02-29T16:01:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T00:01:03","slug":"add-ons-update-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/02\/29\/add-ons-update-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Add-ons Update \u2013 Week of 2012\/02\/29"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world.<\/p>\n<h3>The Review Queues<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/02\/16\/the-review-queues-are-empty\/\">We managed to empty the queues<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most<strong> nominations<\/strong> for full review are taking less than <strong>3 days<\/strong> to review.<\/li>\n<li>Most <strong>updates<\/strong> are being reviewed within <strong>3 days<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Most <strong>preliminary reviews<\/strong> are being reviewed within <strong>3 days<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These stats are taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.mozilla.org\/addons\/viewtopic.php?f=21&amp;t=4811\">last week&#8217;s queue report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>19 nominations<\/strong> in the queue awaiting review.<\/li>\n<li><strong>15<\/strong><strong> updates<\/strong> in the queue awaiting review.<\/li>\n<li><strong>10 <\/strong><strong>preliminary<\/strong> review submissions in the queue awaiting review.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in joining the AMO Editors team and help us review add-ons, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/AMO:Editors\">our wiki page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Test Your Add-ons for Memory Leaks!<\/h3>\n<p>The MemShrink team was assembled some time ago to work on reducing Firefox&#8217;s memory footprint. Many memory bugs have been filed and fixed for Firefox, but add-ons are also a significant factor in how much memory is being used.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is an ongoing effort to track and stomp <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=700547\">memory leaks in add-ons<\/a>.<\/strong> Here&#8217;s where you can help, either by testing the add-ons you created, or testing the add-ons you use. Please read the article on <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Zombie_Compartments\">Zombie Compartments<\/a>, particularly the add-ons section. It should give you some pointers on how to find leaks and how to avoid them. The short version is <strong>don&#8217;t hold any references to DOM objects after the document is closed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The AMO review team is already aware of this, and we have added memory leaks to our testing policies. Add-on versions that leaks may not get full review.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about this, post them in the comments.<\/p>\n<h3>Firefox 11<\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2012\/01\/27\/compatibility-for-firefox-11\/\">Firefox 11 compatibility blog post<\/a> has been up for a while.<\/p>\n<p>The compatibility bump will be run very soon, but it will be run differently than last time. It has been greatly delayed due to some bugs on our side, but we&#8217;re working on resolving them ASAP.<\/p>\n<p>Since Firefox 10 and above have add-on compatibility turned on by default, there&#8217;s no longer a need to do maxVersion bumping. So, we&#8217;re going to do run the usual compatibility checks, but only email developers if their add-ons <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> pass some of the checks. These add-ons that don&#8217;t will also be added to the compatibility override list so users know they are incompatible, provided that the compatibility bug really causes problems in the way the add-on works.<\/p>\n<h3>Firefox 12<\/h3>\n<p>The Firefox 12 compatibility updates are coming very soon. I&#8217;m already working on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. 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