Extension Updates
Obviously for those keeping up with this rather minimal blog I’m somewhat behind where I hoped to be since my last post. Still no new release of Nightly Tester Tools so I thought it worth giving a...
View ArticleThrowing in the Towel
I guess it isn’t going to come as much of a surprise to people when I say I’ve been having a hard time finding the time to maintain the extensions I develop. I’ll go over some of the reasons why...
View ArticleHow extensions can slow down Firefox (my dirty little secret)
Tab Sidebar is probably my favourite extension that I’ve created. It is certainly the most polished, thanks mostly to other people pushing me to make it so. For those that haven’t used it it creates a...
View ArticleWhere is the updated Nightly Tester Tools?
Many of you nightly testers may have noticed that Nightly Tester Tools’ compatibility override feature doesn’t work with the new add-ons manager and may be wondering when I’m planning to issue an...
View ArticleHow to extend the new Add-ons Manager (or how I built a simple greasemonkey...
One of the goals of the new add-ons manager API was to create something that was itself extensible. A couple of times in the past we’ve had to add new types of add-ons to the UI like Plugins and...
View ArticleNightly Tester Tools is being brought back to life
After my last post about how I no longer have the time to maintain Nightly Tester Tools I am happy to say that someone has stepped forward to take over development and maintenance. I’m even more happy...
View ArticleMaking communicating with chrome from in-content pages easy
As Firefox increasingly switches to support running in multiple processes we’ve been finding common problems. Where we can we are designing nice APIs to make solving them easy. One problem is that we...
View ArticleA new owner for the add-ons manager
I’ve been acting as the owner for the add-ons manager for the past little while and while I have always cared a lot about the add-ons space it is time to formerly pass over the torch. So I was pleased...
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