Mozilla Add-ons

Evolution2011 in Review and Upcoming in

2012

Brian King Mozilla Croatia Community Meeting -

Zagreb7 January 2012

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Watch the Video!

about:addons -> Get Add-ons -> Learn More

Popcorn.js driven experience...WebDev gives the details

Why Add-ons?

● Core to the Mozilla mission of “choice & innovation”● Huge momentum versus other browsers.● Deep customization is one of the key differentiators for

Firefox and helps users feel like Firefox is “mine”● Innovation incubator● 1st class deployment infrastructure at Mozilla Add-ons

(AMO)

Add-ons in 2011

Recap

Developers and Reviews

● New Developer Tools● Editor Tools enhancements● Overhaul of review process (sandbox no more, and more)

Discoverability

Discovery pane (Get Add-ons) in Add-ons Manager (AOM)- driving 30,000 downloads a daySearch- AOM search driving 300,000 downloads a day- Site search overhauled (ajax, search suggestions dropdown, inline results in page)

And Much More

Read fligtar's post...

http://blog.fligtar.com/2012/01/02/add-ons-in-2011/

Jetpack Status

Add-ons SDK

Picture by jurvetson on Flickr

What is the Jetpack SDK?

● An extensible library of capabilities and APIs for writing Firefox add-ons, as well as stand-alone web-technology based applications.

● A set of command-line tools that package and security-harden your code into distributable packages.

● Goals:○ Web-Based : Attractive to Web Developers○ More secure○ Remixable○ Robust - Versioned API○ No restart / Silent updates

Core APIs

Integrated set of API modules for common use case in add-ons

● System (clipboard, notifications, file)● Browser (private browsing, tab-browser) ● UI (widget, context-menu, panel)● Requests (xhr) ● Web Content (pagemods) ● And more...

https://addons.mozilla.org/developers/docs/sdk/latest/

Add-ons Builder (Beta)

The Add-ons Builder will enable the community to rapidly, collaboratively develop extensions.

Status

● SDK officially launched in 2011● 1.4 Beta at time of writing● Add-ons Builder Beta● Fast-track queue on AMO for SDK based add-ons

New Roadmap coming soon... Expect deeper integration moving forward.

Uptake

27% of new add-ons submitted to AMO each month use the SDK.

Apps and Marketplace

... and other goodies for 2012

Apps

"bring HTML5 app experiences built using Web standards and open technologies to all your devices, wherever you are" Why?

● Discoverability● Monetisation

Do it better and more open than others https://apps-preview.mozilla.org

BrowserID is an easier way to sign in Coming toAMO in 2012

Performance

Performance testing of Add-ons

Significant progress in 2011, look for more in 2012.

Compatibility

Firefox 10 - Compatible by default

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