Archive for January, 2007

A new round of updates have been pushed to the preview site, including: Added a user’s information page Added breadcrumbs and a search box to every page Added the plugins page, linked to from the navigation menu Polished some rough edges, including: Using ngettext() for pluralization Added friendlier messages (eg. when a new user registers) Attempts to guess a users language... »

The international community is an essential part of Firefox. Whether it’s coming up with ideas, writing code, or just using the browser every day, Firefox is influenced by people around the globe. In an effort to embrace this relationship we decided that Remora, the next version of addons.mozilla.org, should be localizable. ... »

Airbag is an open-source multi-platform crash reporting system that will replace Talkback as Mozilla’s crash reporting tool in Firefox 3. Ben Smedberg has talked about why this is oh-so-cool, and a lot of people are excited about replacing Talkback. But setting up the client side of things is half the battle. Our next... »

Since we launched the AMO 3.0 preview last week, we’ve been busy reading feedback and implementing fixes. Here is a brief list of changes that have been merged into the alpha since last week: A reorganized front page New static content translations including French, Japanese, and Korean Added the “Search Engines” page, linked from the right-hand menu Fixed some... »

As morgamic mentioned, we’re very excited about finally being able to provide a great add-ons experience in more than just English. (Don’t get me wrong, I love English, but there are other great languages as well.) There are three major parts to localization in the “Remora” code base: Localization of static web content. These... »

We are excited to announce the release of a public preview of the next addons.mozilla.org. Our goal is to help Firefox improve the way people use the web. We recognize the important of add-ons and how they contribute to one of Firefox’s strong points — customizability. Why a Rewrite? This August we set out... »