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Category: Mozilla Add-ons

My Future of Developing Firefox Add-ons

Mozilla announced today that add-ons that depend on XUL, XPCOM, or XBL will be deprecated and subsequently incompatible with future versions of Firefox: Consequently, we have decided to deprecate add-ons that depend on XUL, XPCOM, and XBL. We don’t have a specific timeline for deprecation, but most likely it will take place within 12 to…

August 21, 2015
Firefox Add-ons for Sale

A++++ seller, would buy from again!!

June 11, 2012
URL Fixer Has Been Acquired

They made me an offer I didn’t refuse.

February 20, 2012
Discontinuing Slashdotter

In which I discontinue Slashdotter.

April 19, 2011
Tapsure: Better password input on mobile devices

In which I develop an alternative password input method for touchscreens.

December 17, 2010
Ambilight for Your Browser or: Monetizing an Add-on with Fat Plug

Or, “Monetizing” an Add-on with Fat Plug

March 26, 2010
Four More Fennec Add-ons

Update: TwitterBar was sold to HootSuite and renamed HootBar in March of 2011. TwitterBar for Chrome was discontinued in October of 2012. I got some great feedback after I updated URL Fixer to be compatible with Fennec, Mozilla’s mobile browser, and I’m happy to announce that I’ve been able to add Fennec compatibility to four…

November 6, 2008
Feed Sidebar updated for Firefox 3

Firefox 3 introduced many new features for extension developers, and I decided to take advantage of some of them in order to update my Feed Sidebar extension. Version 3.0 of Feed Sidebar is now out, and these are the main features and changes I added: Look and feel: I updated all of the icons for…

July 6, 2008
Recommended by 4 out of 5 Mozillas

Mozilla updated their recommended add-ons list today (see this blog post by Basil Hashem for the full story), but the main change I’d like to draw your attention to is that both Mahalo Share and Feed Sidebar were added to the list. Hurray!

April 25, 2008
Finding unused entities in your Firefox extensions

If you’ve maintained a Firefox extension for any amount of time, you know that you can accumulate unused entities as you change the UI or add/remove features. They just pile up in your .dtd and .properties files, taking up space. Here’s a bash script that will list out any entities or entries in .properties files…

April 22, 2008
TubeStop reviews requested

TubeStop was discontinued on December 25, 2012, and Firefox’s newly-introduced controls for managing auto-playing videos have since made it obsolete. I’ve finally uploaded TubeStop to Mozilla Add-ons, but it can’t be brought out of the sandbox (protected area for untrusted extensions) until it has some reviews and undergoes an editor approval process. If you use…

March 3, 2008

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