I visit my Google Plus Stream every now and then to see if there’s anything useful in it. Unsurprisingly, most of the time there isn’t anything. I blame primitive filtering and lack of users. But one thing that caught my eye was a post by sheppy, asking about running multiple versions of Firefox easily. While [...]
Also tagged add-on, documentation, mac os, mozillaI’m presenting about Firefox 4 Add-on Compatibility at the Mozilla Summit a little later today. Here are the slides in PDF version for all of those interested. Firefox 4 for Add-on Developers For now, this is a pretty good reference if you want to start supporting the Firefox 4 betas in your add-ons. I’ll be [...]
Also tagged amo, mozilla, presentationNote: this is just me throwing some ideas around. It is not an official proposal or spec. Having said that, I would like everyone that has interest in extension development to read this post and tell me what they think. I’ve been an extension developer for a long time, and I like to think that [...]
Also tagged add-on, amo, idea, jetpack, mozilla, xulschoolI guess giving 3 month’s advanced notice wasn’t enough for most add-on authors. I guess this is partly our fault, and we should stress enough how important it is for them to stay up to date with Firefox new, or at least the Add-ons Blog. On Thursday, the update queue had about 80 add-on updates [...]
Also tagged amo, editors, mozillaFor my first “official” Xulforge project, I decided to take on a relatively simple task, so that I could get the site and blog started quickly. This way at least I have some content to show for while I work on larger projects . This first project is My Personas. This project is a set [...]
Also tagged add-on, mozilla, personas, projects, xulforgeFire.fm is a project that a friend and I began in order to compete in the Extend Firefox 3 competition, particularly to participate in the Best Music Add-on, which was being sponsored by Last.fm. I was a big fan of Last.fm at the time, given that it offered free online radio all around the world. [...]
Also tagged add-on, fire.fm, last.fm, mozilla, projects