In this issue…
- Add-on Developers: Tell us what you think
- AMO Roadmap & Direction
- Extend Firefox 3 winners announced!
- Extensions for Fennec (Mobile)
- Upcoming Toronto MozCamp/Developer Day
- Mozilla Labs announces Ubiquity
Add-on Developers: Tell us what you think
If you’re a Firefox add-on developer, please consider taking this brief survey to help us improve the experience of developing and hosting add-ons through documentation, tools, and features. All responses are anonymous and will be read. Take the survey.
AMO Roadmap & Direction
Basil Hashem, Mozilla’s Director of Add-ons, has published some slides on the addons.mozilla.org Roadmap and Editor Community. You can check them out at his blog.
Extend Firefox 3 winners announced!
The winners of the Extend Firefox extension competition for Firefox 3 have been announced. The grand prize winners of Best New Add-on were Pencil, Tagmarks, and HandyTag. The Best Updated Add-on grand prize winners were Read it Later, TagSifter, and Bookmark Previews. The Best
Music Add-on was Fire.fm. You can see a list of all winners and runners up at the announcement post.
Extensions for Fennec (Mobile)
The Add-ons Manager in Fennec is coming along, and Mark Finkle made a post explaining some important things add-on developers will need to know for developing Fennec extensions.
Upcoming Toronto MozCamp/Developer Day
Mozilla is hosting a Developer Day in Toronto on September 15 & 16. Check out Mark Finkle’s post for a description of the event, or take a look at the schedule and sign up if you’ll be able to attend.
Mozilla Labs announces Ubiquity
Ubiquity, “an experiment into connecting the Web with language”, was announced by Mozilla Labs and a prototype Firefox extension is now available. Read the announcement and try it out!
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