It’s no secret that Firefox users love to install add-ons — more than 1.5 million are downloaded every day from our official gallery. But users aren’t the only ones who love adding on to Firefox: third-party applications frequently install bundled add-ons into Firefox as part of their own installation process. While some of these applications… Continue reading
We’re very excited to begin rolling out a new design for our homepage and add-on details page to a small number of visitors to addons.mozilla.org very soon. These new designs bring some of our most popular pages in line with the new Mozilla styling and provide a cleaner, simpler look for exploring the thousands of… Continue reading
The revamped Add-ons Manager in Firefox 4 provides a rich experience for add-on discovery and management, and to power that service Mozilla receives aggregate data on add-on usage. We previously estimated that at least a third of Firefox users had chosen to install an add-on, but knew the number was higher than that. We’re very… Continue reading
Earlier tonight we updated compatibility information for add-ons that work with Firefox 4 to also work with Firefox 5, except in certain cases where we think the add-on may be incompatible. This coincided with the beta release of Firefox 5, though normally it would occur when the Nightly channel is promoted to Aurora, as described… Continue reading
With Firefox releases happening more quickly, add-on developers will have less time to address compatibility issues that might surface. We’ve implemented a new compatibility process to ease that burden for the majority of add-ons. We’ve also created a new mailing list for add-on compatibility announcements that we encourage all add-on developers to subscribe to. This… Continue reading
Alice Nodelman has posted an update on our efforts to improve automated testing of add-on performance. We encourage add-on developers interested in our progress towards resolving these bugs and in our future plans to read the update and provide feedback.
Firefox development has recently moved to a rapid release cycle to bring new features and security, stability, and other bug fixes to hundreds of millions of users much faster than we have previously. In order to support this exciting new release schedule, a lot has to change, and one of the biggest areas impacted is… Continue reading
Just over a week ago we announced our add-on performance initiative and have received lots of feedback from add-on users and developers. Thanks to our awesome community, many developers have updated their add-ons to have faster start-up time, and others have dug into the results and filed bugs to help us improve our testing framework.… Continue reading
Firefox performance is extremely important to our users, especially how quickly it starts up and loads websites. Customization is also extremely important, and while most add-ons cause only a tiny performance impact, others can significantly slow down Firefox. Many users don’t realize add-ons can cause these delays, and that’s why we’re committed to improving performance… Continue reading
If you’re reading this blog, you probably already know that add-ons are kind of a big deal, with hundreds of thousands of add-ons and Personas submitted to us and downloaded billions of times by our community from all over the world. Whether it’s improving our add-ons gallery (which serves 20 billion requests a month), engaging… Continue reading
