Firefox 8.0 is Released

Re:Firefox 8.0 is Released by latif on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @02:18AM (#3214640)

The Firefox teams seems to no longer care about add-ons and add-on users. I am an Add-on author. I submitted an updated version of my addon for Firefox 8 on October 27. Twelve days later the new version is still sitting in a sandbox waiting editorial review. With a new release happening every 6 weeks this kind of behavior is inexcusable and will likely drive people away from Add-ons.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/categorize/

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Re:Firefox 8.0 is Released by JoshTriplett on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @03:03AM (#3214734)

Known problem with the compatibility system, and Mozilla plans to address it in the near future by improving the notion of compatibility, as well as adding the ability to quickly mark an existing version of an addon as compatible when it doesn't need changes.

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Re:Firefox 8.0 is Released by Sanddancer on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @03:29AM (#3214784)

I disagree. The folks at Mozilla are not so quietly encouraging developers to get involved in the alpha and beta releases to ensure that things do work on day one of a release? How much work was done up to October 27 ensuring that your add-on was ready to go?

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Re:Firefox 8.0 is Released by wslh on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @06:48AM (#3215145)

Sorry Sanddancer but my experience as an add-on author is that writing free add-ons can quickly turn to a demanding job.

For example, if you look at the tab mix plus add-on source code you can find a very long list of workarounds to make it work in different contexts.

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Re:Firefox 8.0 is Released by patd on Wednesday November 09, 2011 @07:31AM (#3215234)

My last addon release was reviewed after a little over a month.

They do however do automatic check to ensure that your addon still works with newer releases and upgrade the compatibility automatically.

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