After receiving numerous reports from add-on developers about slight dips in their usage statistics, we discovered an issue yesterday with the log configuration of several servers. This issue has been corrected and statistics should return to normal beginning with today’s report. Unfortunately, active daily user statistics since December 16, 2011 are approximately 33% lower than… Continue reading
addons.mozilla.org is currently experiencing a network outage (starting around 10am Pacific). Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you can view the current status here. Thanks for your patience.
addons.mozilla.org and several other Mozilla services, including the Mozilla Labs Apps Developer Preview, are currently experiencing performance and availability issues. Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you can view the current status here. Thanks for your patience.
addons.mozilla.org and many other Mozilla services are currently experiencing a network outage. Mozilla IT is actively working to restore service, and you can view the current status here. Thanks for your patience.
Update (Sept. 29 3:45pm Pacific): A new update for Firefox that fixes this issue is now available, and all users are encouraged to update to the latest version from within the Firefox About window or by downloading from mozilla.org/firefox. Update (Sept. 30 2:30pm Pacific): A new update for Thunderbird is also now available that fixes… Continue reading
Earlier today, AMO’s new extension category landing and browse pages were pushed live, bringing more of the site into our new style. As with our other new pages, we aimed for a clean, simple design without extra clutter. One area we focused on improving with these pages is add-on compatibility with your browser: making it… Continue reading
Earlier today we launched the first part of a revamp of our email notifications system that offers more fine-grained control over the notifications you receive, as well as one-click unsubscribe. You can read more about this revamp on the WebDev Blog. Add-on developers will likely notice this new system very soon, as they’ll begin receiving… Continue reading
Beginning at 2PM Pacific tomorrow, addons.mozilla.org and all of its services will be read-only for approximately 3 hours as we relocate it to our Phoenix datacenter. Browsing and downloading add-ons should be unaffected. AMO’s new home will provide it ample room to scale and allows us to use new services unavailable in San Jose, where… Continue reading
If you’ve ever developed an add-on for Firefox, we’d really appreciate 5 – 10 minutes of your time filling out our 2011 Firefox Add-on Developer Survey. This survey will be a great help to us in understanding how add-on developers feel, what we’ve done well, and what we can improve on in our initiatives across… Continue reading
Sinchan Banerjee is an intern from Mozilla’s User Experience team and one of his projects involves ensuring add-ons get the user experience they deserve. The following is a guest post by Sinchan. Firefox can complete a lot of tasks. It comes with the functionality to accomplish the tasks we believe most people want to finish,… Continue reading
