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
We’ve seen reports from the field and blogosphere that Firefox 3.0.1 has somehow broken compatibility for many add-ons. This is indeed not the case. When add-on authors publish their add-on they declare the compatibility range for an add-on. It typically looks like “2.0 to 3.0.*” – meaning that at minimum, this add-on requires Firefox 2.0… Continue reading
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
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
This is a first in a series of blog posts that will try to articulate some background about add-ons in order to explore potential product directions for the Mozilla add-ons site (AMO). First some facts and figures to help set the context and scale for Firefox add-ons. There are more than 180 million active monthly… Continue reading
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
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for the Extend Firefox 3 Contest is coming up quickly on July 4th. This contest includes some great prizes up for grabs and has categories for new, updated and music-oriented add-ons. Read more about it.
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
The AMO team has been cranking hard for the past several weeks to bring you the latest batch of goodness. This week’s release includes some very cool end user and developer features, just in time for Firefox 3. Theme Browser Ever find it hard to see a bunch of Firefox themes at a glance? We… Continue reading
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
Mike Morgan is the Director of Web Development for the Mozilla Corporation. Mike joined the Mozilla community as a volunteer in 2003 and has worked on Mozilla's mirror management software, update system and addons.mozilla.org. These days he spends most of his time on strategy, recruiting and helping his team embrace their inner nerd.
