We have identified a serious bug in the 1.4.* releases, and have made a hotfix release of the Add-on SDK. The hotfix release is version 1.4.3. If you are potentially affected by the bug, then you will need to take action to recover from it. This note explains: how to work out whether you are… Continue reading
In the 1.4 release we tweaked the manner in which the SDK determines its own version (it now uses git-describe when possible). Yesterday, we discovered that this new versioning process conflicted with the way the Add-on Builder deploys the SDK in their application. Today we released the hotfix version 1.4.1 to address this issue so… Continue reading
Project News Addon SDK 1.4 shipped last week; if your SDK-based addon makes use of resource urls to access web content located in the data directory, please check out my blog post detailing the dangers of hard-coding these urls, and how you can fix them. Cheevos is an SDK-based addon written by Firefox developer Jared… Continue reading
Project News We released SDK 1.4 today which includes important new features including a new module loader implementation, as well as the simple-prefs module. Wladimir Palant blogged about measuring memory usage of SDK-based addons using some of the new memory reporter features. Quick Stats Total open bugs: 235 Bugs created last week: 17 Bugs fixed… Continue reading
The Jetpack team is proud to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.4! This version of the SDK has the most new features of all the releases we have made since the 1.0 release. Some of the new features include: – Thanks to community members Hernan Colmeiro and Erik Vold, we have a new Simple… 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
Project News Happy New Year! Matteo Ferretti recently landed initial mobile support for the page-mod module in pull request 301 Watch this space for additional posts on creating mobile addons with the SDK! Dietrich Ayala blogged about the Firefox Features effort, and the current plans for pushing this SDK-related project forward in 2012. We’re working… Continue reading
Project News Louis Remi Babe wrote two excellent posts on working with content scripts in the SDK and using jQuery in content scripts. The simple-prefs API has landed on the SDK’s master branch and we need your feedback! Here’s how to get started. Jorge Villalobos recently ran some tests measuring the impact of the SDK… Continue reading
Recently Jorge Villalobos ran some tests to measure the impact of using the SDK on Firefox start-up time. Jorge published his finding to the Jetpack google news group. His results were encouraging: The results were very favorable this time, with the empty add-on adding only 1.8% (11ms) to startup, and Infocon adding only 3.6% (22ms),… Continue reading
Project News As Justin Scott noted here, addons.mozilla.org was down yesterday for some time or was responding very slowly. This seems to have been resolved but Mozilla IT is continuing to monitor the situation. We will be releasing the first beta build of Addon SDK 1.4 some time today. Watch for announcements on the google… Continue reading
