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Today we reached a very significant milestone. This is a screenshot of the AMO Editors dashboard, which we use to track the status of the AMO review queues. For the first time since I can remember, we are all green! What does this mean? It means that all add-ons currently waiting in the queues have [...]

I’ve been meaning to experiment more with Mobile Firefox for a while, but I’ve had very little time to work on my own add-ons, which are the best source of real-world development experience for me. Since I had received a couple of requests to port Remote XUL Manager to mobile, and this is a fairly [...]

I began this discussion in the newsgroups today. Keeping add-ons compatible in the rapid release process. It is mostly aimed at Mozilla developers, but this should interest add-on developers just the same. We’re establishing a better system to communicate breaking changes, which should make it easier and quicker to identify what needs to be added [...]

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 [...]

Gerv started a fairly intense discussion about the new rapid release cycle, from the perspective of browser versions and their meaning. As expected, many have replied that the discussion is silly and version numbers are meaningless. This is true for most software developers, and it should be true for most web developers. In software, we [...]

I returned on Sunday from Beijing, where I presented at the Mozilla Developer Conference (warning: all-Mandarin page). Twice, in fact. I made a presentation about the Add-ons World (available here), and ended up stepping in for Paul Rouget, who couldn’t make it. His presentation on HTML 5 is really great and it didn’t take much [...]

Our add-on performance initiative is getting lots of attention for, lets say, various reasons. There have been objections about transparency and our testing methods, so I decided to add something valuable to the discussion and document my own testing process. I revisited my old add-on performance article and noticed that the contents of the Measuring [...]

Since I haven’t blogged here for quite a while, I thought it’d be good to do the mandatory WordPress version update and then post a little update on the side projects I’m currently working on: Remote XUL Manager has taken most of my spare time. It’s been exciting just because it’s a fairly new project [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about this for a while now, but I just haven’t had the time for it given all the work I’ve been doing surrounding the Firefox 4 release. The editor review queues are predictably getting much more submissions, and I’ve been trying to keep add-on developers up to date with Firefox [...]

I’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 [...]