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AMO Maintenance Release – v3.4.6

We pushed out a minor revision to AMO last night. This includes: A “Remember me on this computer” option when logging in so that you are not constantly being asked for your password. The login credential expires every 2 weeks. A reCAPTCHA process for new registrations. Changes to the default sort order for search results… Continue reading

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AMO maintenance release – v3.4.5

This minor revision to AMO includes some fixes to some vexing problems as well as a few ease-of-use features. We’ve added a “slider mechanism” to the front page so that you users iterate through five of the featured add-ons. Some of the bugs resolved include the dreaded “version bumped add-on will not install”, empty review… Continue reading

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Featured Add-ons Rotation for July 2008

I’ve previously described the process we use on AMO for rotating the featured add-ons. As we start a new month, we’ve rotated many of the add-on based on their performance. We examine how many additional active add-on users have been added to the Firefox add-ons user base (in absolute numbers) and the relative user retention… Continue reading

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AMO Roadmap (as of Q2 2008)

Where have we been – where are we going? We’ve seen some major changes to the AMO site over the last six months. We rolled out a major version which we probably should have called AMO 4.0 but didn’t. We then changed to a rapid iteration cycle and have released six minor revisions. We’ve updated… Continue reading

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Add-on Stats-a-holic

Mozilla aspires to be as public as possible with its data and stats. (See Blog of Metrics) We are trying to do our part with AMO and share information about activity we are seeing on the site. Fligtar has two great posts about site metrics during last week’s Firefox 3 launch and the great work… Continue reading

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Rotation of Featured Add-Ons on AMO

As I’ve previously described, we’ll be rotating the featured add-ons on a periodic basis. This evening we rotated out some category-recommended add-ons from the featured list and replaced them with others from the category-recommended list that haven’t appeared on the front page of AMO yet. Take a look at the latest batch. (You’ll be pleased… Continue reading

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