Posted in amo, general on July 26th, 2008 3 Comments »
We have created a new mailing list/newsgroup/Google group to be used for discussion of AMO software development, policies and processes. To clarify the role of this list relative to some of the others out there, it’s meant for AMO development discussion, enhancement requests, policies, and so on.
Add-on development questions should go to the extensions [...]
As we near the end the month of July, we have rotated the featured add-ons on the site. I’ve previously described the process we use on AMO for rotating the featured add-ons. Those add-ons with better overall performance stay on the list, the remaining slots are used to introduce some new add-ons and re-feature ones [...]
Posted in amo, releases on July 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
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 making them more [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo, firefox on July 17th, 2008 5 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in amo, general on July 12th, 2008 6 Comments »
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 pages [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo on July 1st, 2008 7 Comments »
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 [...]