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 [...]
Posted in amo on June 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Where have we been – where are we going?
We’ve seen some major changes to the AMO site over the last six months. We rolled out a major version which we probably should have called AMO 4.0 but didn’t. We then changed to a rapid iteration cycle and have released six minor revisions.
We’ve updated the latest [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo, metrics on June 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in amo, general on June 14th, 2008 9 Comments »
The AMO team has been cranking hard for the past several weeks to bring you the latest batch of goodness. This week’s release includes some very cool end user and developer features, just in time for Firefox 3.
Theme Browser
Ever find it hard to see a bunch of Firefox themes at a glance? We did too [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo, metrics on May 30th, 2008 4 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo on May 16th, 2008 3 Comments »
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.
Posted in amo, general on May 15th, 2008 14 Comments »
The webdev team has updated AMO with a set of key fixes in a new incremental release. This revision includes:
New list views for Newest & Recently Updated add-ons
Display of last modified date on add-on pages
A revised version history page
Ability for users to change their email address and many fixes related to the user signup process, [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo, firefox on May 12th, 2008 8 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in amo on May 1st, 2008 3 Comments »
As mentioned previously, the AMO development team has moved to a more iterative development model. This is our second iteration under the new regime. The changes we’ve rolled out to the site include:
Added back the application compatibility ranges on the add-on details pages
Due to popular demand, we’ve separated Themes from Appearance-related extensions and Dictionaries & [...]