The following is a guest post from Chelsea Novak, Marketing and Fundraising Manager at the Mozilla Foundation A few add-on authors have asked about directing contributions to the Mozilla Foundation. You definitely can- if you’re an add-on author and interested in directing your contributions to the Mozilla Foundation, it’s simple and easy to do. Just set the ...
Editor’s note: On Feb 5, Mozilla Labs released new Weave Sync APIs and resources for developers. For more details, check out Ragavan Srinivasan’s blog announcement, reposted below. Last week we announced that the Weave Sync add-on for Firefox is now generally available to seamlessly bridge your desktop and mobile Firefox experiences. Using ...
Developers got their first glimpse at detailed statistics for their add-ons in early 2008 when we launched the Developer Statistics Dashboard for every add-on hosted on AMO. Since then, we’ve made incremental improvements to this tool, such as adding grouping and comparison options, data tables, locale usage stats, contributions, and most recently download sources. In July, ...
Issue Two experimental add-ons, Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan code aimed at Windows users. Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader contained Win32.LdPinch.gen, and Master Filer contained Win32.Bifrose.32.Bifrose Trojan. Both add-ons have been disabled on AMO. ...
About.com has just released the list of finalists in the 2010 About.com Reader’s Choice Awards, and Camino is one of the five finalists in the “Best Independent Browser” category. We’re excited to be recognized, especially as the sole Mac-on... ...
Editor’s note: Today, the GNOME Foundation announced a $10,000 grant from Mozilla to advance accessibility. See the full press release for full details. Included below is an excerpt from the release: The GNOME Foundation and Mozilla are committed to open source, open standards, and open formats. Both organizations and their contributors contribute to ...
At the end of 2009, we traveled around the world — to the Czech Republic, Russia, and Argentina — meeting with developers and talking to them about Google Chrome Extensions and HTML5.In the first leg of our trip, we headed to Europe for Google Deve... ...
The nominations are in, and it’s time to vote for your favorite add-ons in the 2010 About.com Reader’s Choice Awards. Add-ons are now up for public voting in the following categories: Best Overall Add-on (non-security) Best Privacy/Security Add-on Best Browser Theme Best User Script While you’re there, be sure to vote for the Best Major Desktop Browser and Best ...
In this post, I want to share some examples of the progress going on in the SVG Working Group. Microsoft recently joined the SVG Working Group, and other members (Mozilla, Apple and Opera among others) welcomed us warmly. I'm hopeful about the ways that SVG (both its current direction and future potential) could ...
One thing that got lost in the commotion of the extensions launch is a feature that is near and dear to my heart: Google Chrome 4 now natively supports Greasemonkey user scripts. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension I wrote in 2004 that allows developer... ...