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Status update: Extension Manager UI, Tab matches in Awesomebar
Extension Manager UI Redesign Status Plenty of discussion at the recent Firefox team work week (which was awesome and I blogged about here) The project branch is setup Mossop is landing the new API...
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Status update: Firefox team work week
Tonight, on a very special status update, I'll recount the recent Firefox team work week. The Firefox team work weeks are pretty special. For one week, every 4-6 months, the whole team gets together at...
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Status update: Extension Manager UI Redesign
Extension Manager UI Redesign Status Install/uninstall/update working really nicely. This took longer than expected, due to: Some issues with the new API - Mossop has added various new functions,...
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Status update: Extension Manager UI, Tab matches
This is a "I'm still alive" type of update. It's been a couple of weeks since I last posted a status update. In that time, I've had a week off thanks to a 5-day weekend of public holidays (yay!), then...
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Status update: Extension Manager UI
Extension Manager UI Redesign Status Fixed a bunch of bugs QA found, and the important remaining P1 bugs blocking landing - including: Supporting external/instant installs (ie, those without an...
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Status update: Extension Manager UI, App Tabs
Extension Manager UI Redesign Status Landed! Woo! Backed out! Boo! Thanks to a Ts regression on OS X 10.5.8, which turned out to be bug 519893 again. A little background: A specific OS function in OS X...
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Status Update: AppTabs, Extension Manager UI
App Tabs and Home Tab Status Met with Limi to discuss design details, including: BarTab-like functionality Single-instance vs traditional tab-like behavior (preferring this) Adding/removing AppTabs -...
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Solving Firefox’s add-on compatibility problem
"I want to upgrade Firefox, but my add-ons won't be compatible." This makes me sad. And it's a problem that's been magnified by the switch to rapid release. One of the strengths of Firefox is it's rich...
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The Add-ons Manager and I are rather good chums
Back in... er... a long time ago, I wrote an add-on called Filter Extensions. I was just scratching an itch - I had more add-ons than the Add-ons Manager was designed to cope with. Turns out people...
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Add-ons Manager API: Change in event order when restartless extensions are...
Over in bug 727398 I'm planning on making a change to restartless extensions that could potentially affect addon authors who use the Add-ons Manager API. This only affects code that registers a...
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I Ain’t Dead
You may have noticed that lately I've been somewhat absent from, uh, everything. Dead to the world for most of December, and just brief ghostly appearances so far in 2013. I've posted a couple of times...
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