I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 5 days to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 3 days. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
Project News We released a hotfix release, 1.4.3. It fixes an important regression in 1.4, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 and should be taken by anybody currently using one of those releases. More details here. FOSDEM happened, there were Jetpack presentations and discussions. Henrik Skupin blogged about it, and contributed a patch. Andrew Sutherland has written an… Continue reading
If you’re in the Bay Area, we invite you to join us at our San Francisco office on Tuesday, February 21, for an evening of food, drinks and good company! Come and see how easy it is to create add-ons for Firefox with Add-on Builder and the Add-on SDK. If you’re a Web developer and… Continue reading
Project News We released two point releases, 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 to address issues related to deploying SDk 1.4 on the Add-on Builder site. Jorge pointed out an important compatibility issue with SDK 1.3 and the upcoming Firefox 11 release in his compatibility post. We will be re-packing add-ons built with 1.3 and lower prior to… Continue reading
Following hot on the heels of yesterday’s release of 1.4.1, we identified an issue in the SDK where console logging was not happening correctly. Through discussions with the Add-on Builder team, this issue was identified as a Priority 1 blocker for the Builder team given the recent addition of 1.4 support earlier this week. If… Continue reading
Firefox 11 was pushed to the Aurora channel weeks ago, and Firefox 12 will follow suit very soon. So, it’s time for the long overdue overview of bugs that can affect add-on compatibility in Firefox 11. I’m sorry this update is being posted so late, but things have been pretty crazy lately. More on that… Continue reading
Project News We’re releasing SDK 1.5b2 this afternoon, including updated localization documentation. If you’re interested in addon localization progress, you should read over Zbigniew Braniecki’s insightful feedback post on our html localization proposal. Yesterday I posted a note about SDK 1.4 and the Addon Builder Quick Stats Total open bugs: 240 Bugs created last week:… Continue reading
I post these updates every 3 weeks to inform add-on developers about the status of the review queues, add-on compatibility, and other happenings in the add-ons world. The Review Queues Most nominations for full review are taking less than 10 days to review. Most updates are being reviewed within 5 days. Most preliminary reviews are… Continue reading
All add-ons will be made compatible by default in the upcoming Firefox 10 release, so it’s crunch time for testing them in Beta, Aurora, and Nightly. With default compatibility, you can expect to see less of the incompatible add-ons dialog, and more of your add-ons should just work. If you are a Firefox developer, support… Continue reading
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
