Testing Add-on SDK Extensions on Travis CI

Recently Mozilla restricted access to ftp.mozilla.org, instead you can download nightlies from archive.mozilla.org. Sadly this broke existing methods to download Firefox nightly for automated unit tests on Travis CI. I've written a node module, that takes care of downloading nightly versions of Firefox desktop and Android. .travis.yml for Desktop Update: I changed the export commands …

Announcing the PanelView Add-on SDK Module

Yesterday Australis was released to the public with Firefox 29. Australis introduces panelview elements which are used for all the default buttons with panels. The difference between a panelview and a panel essentially are, that the panelview will open as a subview when its anchor (read: button) is in the menupanel. Mozilla's Add-on SDK doesn't …