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Mozilla aspires to be as public as possible with its data and stats. (See Blog of Metrics) We are trying to do our part with AMO and share information about activity we are seeing on the site. Fligtar has two great posts about site metrics during last week’s Firefox 3 launch and the great work [...]

As I’ve previously described, we’ll be rotating the featured add-ons on a periodic basis. This evening we rotated out some category-recommended add-ons from the featured list and replaced them with others from the category-recommended list that haven’t appeared on the front page of AMO yet. Take a look at the latest batch. (You’ll be pleased [...]

Mark Finkle & Dave Townsend wrote in their blogs (& here too) about the new add-ons newsletter. Receive timely news about changes to the AMO site as well as add-ons related news. You can subscribe here.

Now that Firefox 3.0 Release Candidates are starting to become available, we have made modifications to AMO to accept the production version numbers for Firefox 3. In particular, we have added “3.0″ and “3.0.*” as valid Firefox compatible versions. The full application compatibility list is available here.
What this means for you as an add-on author [...]

One of the main goals for AMO is to help introduce add-ons to the user base of Firefox (and other other apps supported on AMO). The recommended list has been one of the ways to do that.
Prior to AMO v3.2, a single list of add-ons was maintained that showcased a sample of what can be [...]

The AMO team has been hard at work for the last many months on a major site redesign and is pleased to announce the availability of the new AMO site. This is a significant release and chock-full of goodies for end users and add-on authors alike. The focus has been predominantly to provide a visual [...]

As an added encouragement to getting Firefox 3 compatibility for add-ons, Mozilla is giving away limited edition T-Shirts. Details about how to apply appear on Alex Polvi’s blog.

This week AMO reached a pretty significant milestone – 600 Million add-ons delivered. Wow! There’s a great post on the Mozilla blog of metrics summarizing the results. That’s fresh downloads and doesn’t even include updates to add-ons being delivered on a regular basis.