Most browser extensions do a thing. And they do that thing in their isolated little world. Many of them do their thing pretty well. Many of them are built to do many things. Many of them are built to do just one little thing. But only few of them talk to other extensions to do …
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 …
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Erik Vold is a developer of the Add-on SDK and occasionally shares some tips for extension developers on his blog in his Jetpack Pro Tip series of articles.
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 …
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