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Renaming Personas

Firefox users love Personas. They’re a fun and easy way to customize Firefox and make it your own. But in talking with new users, we’ve learned that they are often confused by the name and don’t quite get that Personas are just another way to theme your browser. And more often than not, when a… Continue reading

Categories: end users, personas

Default Compatibility is Coming and Your Help is Needed!

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

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Categories: compatibility, developers, end users, releases

AMO Outage

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.

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Categories: developers, end users

AMO network issues

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.

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Help Test Default Compatibility for Add-ons on Aurora

The latest phase of our add-on compatibility plan has arrived in Aurora, and we need your help to test it! Since Firefox 4, we have been automatically making add-ons hosted on AMO compatible with new Firefox releases. Now, we have extended automatic compatibility to non-hosted add-ons, which account for 75% of all add-ons in use… Continue reading

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Categories: compatibility, developers, end users, releases

AMO Network Outage

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.

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Categories: developers, end users, general

New AMO Category Pages

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

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Categories: compatibility, end users, releases