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May 31, 2004

Firefox 0.9 Shaping Up

I haven't posted for a while because I've been very busy with the 1.0 Branch, the 0.9 bug list, and other things. Here are some updates:

  • The new Extension Manager is working quite well. I've fixed a few bugs but it seems there's nothing showstopping so far. Please continue to test this feature on the branch, and file bugs and nominate for .9 if you run into any problems.
  • I've been charging through the 0.9 bug list and now it's down to 8 blocking0.9+ bugs. If you know of any serious bugs that you think should block this release, please nominate them!
  • The updated products site and release notes are pretty much ready.

A request - please focus extension testing efforts on the branch builds, none of this is enabled on the trunk yet due to code review delays so by using the trunk you're wasting your time since that's not the code we're going to be shipping with 0.9 or 1.0.

Posted by ben at 2:57 AM | Comments (9)

May 19, 2004

Profile Components

Very very close to having profile extension components work in Firefox, as soon as I fix a nasty js crash on shutdown I'm going to check this in and people can start migrating their extensions over to the new 1.0 format.

Posted by ben at 12:18 AM | Comments (9)

May 17, 2004

Updated Extension/Theme Packaging

Updated documentation for packaging Extensions and Themes.

Posted by ben at 1:53 AM | Comments (10)

May 11, 2004

Theme Manager

I'm almost done...

Posted by ben at 12:01 AM | Comments (25)

May 2, 2004

Writing Firefox Extensions

Writing Firefox/Thunderbird Extensions

A preliminary introduction to the new Extension API. It's important that you read this document if you develop extensions for Firefox or Thunderbird.

Posted by ben at 1:08 AM | Comments (23)

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