{"id":6859,"date":"2013-12-18T09:11:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T17:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=6859"},"modified":"2013-12-18T11:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:36:44","slug":"add-on-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2013\/12\/18\/add-on-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"Add-on Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday January 7th we will be putting Add-on Builder into  read-only mode, meaning that it will no longer be possible to create new  add-ons or change existing projects on the site. Users will still be able to access  their projects until April 2014, when we will turn off the service  entirely. During this period we recommend developers download their  existing projects, and we will continue to communicate this change throughout this period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: to be clear, Builder will also not be updated to use SDK 1.15.<\/p>\n<h3>Why we&#8217;ve made this decision<\/h3>\n<p>Recently we took a look at how developers are using Builder. What we found  is that while many developers  have tried out Builder, very few ( less  than 1% ) ever actually publish their add-on to AMO. Additionally, the  most popular SDK-based add-ons on AMO are instead built by developers  using our command-line tools. As a result, we decided it makes most sense to focus our efforts and resources here.<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s next<\/h3>\n<p>The Firefox Developer Tools team has introduced the Browser Console  and Browser Debugger \/ Toolbox to improve the debugging experience for  both Firefox developers and Add-on developers. We will be continuing to  look for ways to leverage the work we\u2019ve done recently to help extension authors specifically. Watch this blog for more news over the next couple of months.<\/p>\n<h3>Handy links<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Builder: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/builder.addons.mozilla.org\/\">http:\/\/builder.addons.mozilla.org\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Builder&#8217;s source code on Github: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/FlightDeck\">https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/FlightDeck<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Add-on Debugger <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mozilla\/addon-sdk\/wiki\/JEP-Add-on-debugger\">proposal<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/air.mozilla.org\/intern-presentation-hordecki\/\">intern presentation<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=899054\">tracking bug<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss this blog post in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/mozilla-labs-jetpack\/YuVQKgLZ324\">Jetpack Google Group<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday January 7th we will be putting Add-on Builder into read-only mode, meaning that it will no longer be possible to create new add-ons or change existing projects on &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2013\/12\/18\/add-on-builder\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7117,44,588,742],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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