Posted in add-ons, amo, firefox on October 2nd, 2008 6 Comments »
We recently conducted a survey of the add-on developer community. This post summarizes the quantitative results and some key findings only. There were several open-ended questions included on the survey. A special thank you to all those respondents that provided us with extensive feedback and great ideas. A summary of developer comments and suggestions will [...]
Posted in add-ons on September 12th, 2008 No Comments »
The Mozilla add-ons team is always looks for insights in order to improve the development experience and toolset for add-ons authors. We have put together a Add-on Developer Survey that tries to capture some of that with a short series of questions. There is also ample room for free form comments and feedback which we [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo on August 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
As we near the end the month of August, we have rotated the featured add-ons on the AMO site. I’ve previously described the process we use on AMO for rotating the featured and recommended add-ons.
Some of the new entrants to the recommended list include a few of the Extend Firefox 3 contest winners such as: [...]
There were some fantastic entries this time around for the Extend Firefox 3 Contest and the winners have been announced. You’ll find most of the add-ons hosted on AMO. Make sure to checkout and congratulate these authors for a job well done. Lifehacker also has a roundup of the contest.
Posted in add-ons, amo, general, metrics on August 4th, 2008 5 Comments »
At the recent Firefox Plus Summit, I missed the opportunity to share my slides for the AMO session due to a power outage. Ended up using lots of hand gestures and flip charts. For those interested, I’ve uploaded them here and welcome any questions or comments.
(Also, uploaded the slides from the AMO Editor’s session).
Thanks.
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 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 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 [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo, firefox on June 29th, 2008 7 Comments »
This is a first in a series of blog posts that will try to articulate some background about add-ons in order to explore potential product directions for the Mozilla add-ons site (AMO).
First some facts and figures to help set the context and scale for Firefox add-ons.
There are more than 180 million active monthly Firefox users [...]
Just a quick reminder that the deadline for the Extend Firefox 3 Contest is coming up quickly on July 4th. This contest includes some great prizes up for grabs and has categories for new, updated and music-oriented add-ons. Read more about it.