Posted in add-ons, amo, firefox on April 24th, 2008 6 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in amo, general on April 11th, 2008 11 Comments »
Since the release of AMO 3.2, the AMO Team has been actively reviewing the variety of feedback from my blog, the webdev blog, madhava’s blog, the effervescent MozillaZine Forums and most noteably the reports coming into the AMO component in Bugzilla. Thank you so much for all the input and feedback. It’s refreshing to see [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo, general on March 26th, 2008 68 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in add-ons, amo, firefox on March 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
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.
Posted in add-ons, amo on January 31st, 2008 2 Comments »
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.
Posted in amo on November 20th, 2007 12 Comments »
In my last post, I outlined some the design changes we’re planning for AMO. A number of commenters raised the issue that the design could lead to non-Firefox applications being under-represented on the site — definitely not something we want to do. So, we went back to the drawing board and came up with what [...]
Posted in amo on November 6th, 2007 27 Comments »
Earlier this year, the addons.mozilla.org (AMO) team launched a long-awaited, major rework of the AMO site, called Project Remora. With that behind us, we have been working diligently on AMO v3.2. The goal is to:
Simplify site interactions and provide a cleaner look
Based on traffic to the site, about 50% of site visits involve a search [...]