Creating Panels on the Homescreen of Firefox for Android with the Add-on SDK

Firefox for Android has an interesting homescreen: it's divided in multiple panels (or tabs), which by default contain your history, bookmarks, recently closed tabs, reading list, synced tabs and the new-tab tiles. Since a while extensions can add their own panels. Even though the API is pretty simple it's not as comfortable asĀ  Add-on SDK …

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 …