Jetpack Project: weekly update for October 23, 2012
Project News If you’re excited about that hot new ‘gcli’ toolbar in the Firefox developer tools and want to get started creating your own gcli commands and distributing them via extensions, look no...
View ArticleAnnouncing Add-on SDK 1.11!
The Jetpack team is terribly pleased to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.11. You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. What’s new? SDK 1.11 is the most significant...
View ArticleJetpack Project: weekly update for October 30, 2012
Project News SDK 1.11 was released today – go get it! Ever wonder what the most popular SDK-based add-on is? By a large margin, the number one spot is ‘Easy Youtube Video Downloader‘ with over 2...
View ArticleCall for testers! SDK 1.12 Beta 1 now available.
As Wes mentioned in his post to the Jetpack Google Group, we have spun some test builds of SDK 1.12 Beta 1 ( available as a zip archive or a tarball ) and hope that people will take the time to test...
View ArticleSDK private-browsing API deprecation
If you’ve looked through the documentation for Add-on SDK 1.11, you may have noticed that the page documenting the private-browsing module contains the following message: The activate and deactivate...
View ArticleJetpack Project: weekly update for November 06, 2012
Project News Jetpack engineer Eddy Bruel gave a talk recently at Amsterdam JS on his work on Spidermonkey and how the guts of the JS engine work. Eddy also recently blogged about his experiences as a...
View ArticleJetpack Project: weekly update for November 13, 2012
Project News Half the team are in Singapore for Mozcamp Asia, where they’ll be talking about mobile development and adding Firefox features using the SDK. SDK 1.12b2 shipped today. This release...
View ArticleJetpack Project: weekly update for November 20, 2012
Project News SDK 1.12RC1 ships today, there are just some documentation updates for it The Jetpack team’s joining the Developer Tools group: this is in line with our desire to use the SDK APIs to...
View ArticleJetpack Project: weekly update for December 04, 2012
Project News We released SDK 1.12 RC3, available in zip or tarball format. As we have mentioned before, the SDK file layout has significantly changed between 1.11 and 1.12, so please take the time to...
View ArticleAnnouncing Add-on SDK 1.12!
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.12 today; you can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. Update: The Add-on Builder has now been updated to support SDK 1.12....
View ArticleJetpack Project: weekly update for December 18, 2012
Project News We released 1.12 last Tuesday, but there was no weekly update here due to a particularly busy week at an Add-ons Work Week last week. Even better, despite some major differences introduced...
View ArticleAdd-on SDK 2013 Roadmap
During December I worked with the rest of the SDK team as well as other stakeholders to develop a product road-map for the SDK for the next year. This road-map planning is critical as 2013 promises to...
View ArticleJetpack Project: weekly update for January 08, 2013
Project News It’s a new year! And with that comes a new SDK product road-map for 2013! The blog post is here, and if you have any feedback we’d love to hear about it on this Google groups thread. Quick...
View ArticleJetpack Project: weekly update for January 15, 2013
Project News I blogged last week about the 2013 Jetpack Roadmap; for this first quarter the Jetpack team is hard at work on a set of goals that will result in shipping the core apis in Firefox, quite...
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Jetpack Project: weekly update for January 22, 2013
Project News Much thanks to Mozillian Marc Chevrier for not only reporting but providing a patch for bug 829651. I love it when developers report into bugs with patches! Quick Stats Total open bugs:...
View ArticleChanges to “require()” syntax
In version 1.12 we changed the structure of the SDK, removing the idea of “packages” and relocating all the SDK’s modules under the “lib” directory. This changed, and greatly simplified, the require()...
View ArticleAnnouncing Add-on SDK 1.13
I’m pleased to announce that we have released SDK 1.13 today! You can download the SDK directly in either zip or tarball format. As well, Add-on SDK 1.13 is now live and available for Add-on Builder...
View ArticleJetpack Project: weekly update for January 29, 2013
Project News We released SDK 1.13 today! Irakli wrote an interesting post ‘Isolate.js via AST analysis‘ that discusses a novel solution to the problem of passing JS code across compartment and even...
View ArticlePer-Window Private Browsing and the SDK
Erik Vold has been working hard to implement support for Per-Window Private Browsing in the SDK, and he posted a summary of the work and how it will impact add-on authors yesterday: To put the change...
View ArticleAnnouncing Add-on SDK 1.13.1
The Jetpack team would like to announce the immediate availability of SDK 1.13.1, which addresses several issues: Reverted context menu items in sub-menus to display by default as they did in 1.12 (...
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