Firefox add-ons have powerful capabilities, including the ability to read and write the user’s file system, access the network, and access stored passwords. At the same time they interact directly with untrusted web content (that is, arbitrary web pages, and the scripts they load). If add-ons aren’t carefully designed, malicious web sites can exploit their… Continue reading
Project News London Add-on Workshop SDK slides are posted. We’re running an end-of year add-on competition focusing on restartless addons. Meeting Brief Builder / re-pack scripts need more testing. SDK 1.2 RC1 to be released later today. L10n and Mobile support under active development, no hard time-lines for landing on trunk. Planning an all-day SDK… Continue reading
The Jetpack team invaded London last Thursday to host a series of workshops on using the SDK. I had a great time and would like to thank everyone who made it out on such an unseasonably warm autumn evening to learn more about developing add-ons with the SDK! We’ve posted the slides for each talk… Continue reading
Project News The SDK team invaded London for an evening of workshops. Look for a full report in the next few days. Add-on SDK version 1.2 beta 3 should be packaged later this evening, expect a notice from Myk on the Jetpack email list. Please help us test! Dave Mason’s proposed changes to our re-pack… Continue reading
Update (Sept. 29 3:45pm Pacific): A new update for Firefox that fixes this issue is now available, and all users are encouraged to update to the latest version from within the Firefox About window or by downloading from mozilla.org/firefox. Update (Sept. 30 2:30pm Pacific): A new update for Thunderbird is also now available that fixes… Continue reading
Project News We have created builds for Add-on SDK 1.2b2 as a tarball and a ZIP archive. For all the details, please see Myk’s post to the Jetpack Google Group. A number of members of the SDK team are travelling this week, converging on Jolly Old England to host a night of Add-on SDK workshops!… Continue reading
The Add-on SDK team is coming London City University this Thursday for a series of workshops that will get you started hacking your own Firefox add-ons. Registration is both free and limited so make sure you register today! Updates via
News: SDK 1.1 Released! The London SDK Workshop next week is filling up fast! If you’re in the London area and want to attend, sign up now! Announcing the Bay-area edition of the Add-on SDK Workshop coming this October 17th in Mountain View at the Computer History Museum! Project Meeting Brief SDK re-pack is blocked… Continue reading
Update: unfortunately this event has been postponed until further notice. Please keep an eye on the addons blog for an announcement of this event once we reschedule it.
The Jetpack team is pleased to announce the release of Add-on SDK 1.1. This version is the first update since the 1.0 release of Mozilla’s downloadable software development kit for easily building Firefox add-ons. This release mostly contains stability work and bug fixes. Beyond the stability work the 1.1 release also contains: Better transition/porting of… Continue reading
