Add-on Collector: Is there a way to force an update of the collection?

I use the extension as a way to produce an online listing of my add- ons. What I am not seeing is a way to tell the extension to update collection associated with the browser/profile I am currently using if/ when I have uninstalled extensions that I no longer need/want and/or installed new ones that I intend to keep. I do not wish to look at the collection days later and find an add-on I uninstalled still showing up. I would prefer that, much like Weave, my online collection will accurately reflect what I have installed on my browser/profile within a matter of minutes. As I write th

Thoughts on Contribution pilot?

Directed mainly at AMO site admins: I'm involved in the Drupal project, and I posted a suggestion for implementing a concept on drupal.org that seems to have a similar rationale as that of AMO's Contribution pilot. While the communities might be somewhat different (Drupal is very much service-based), I think we could still learn from the experiences of the pilot. In our discussion, some have pointed out that on the raw financial end, it wouldn't appear to be worth it to implement an integrated donation feature. What I was wondering was whether anyone could suggest any more abstrac

Old Mozilla Suite Composer - current version that replaced this?

Hello, I am mostly a novice web developer - brought 3 - 4 up but no pro for sure. For years, I would use the "Composer" in the Mozilla Suite to WYSIWYG edits to a page. Simple I know...still use it but every time says please upgrade - no longer supported. Tried to find this version to download on another machine but can't find it - guessing will not be able to. They didn't take this editor away did they? With currrent versions of Mozilla - Firefox? how can I get this replaced? Thanks, Steve

AMO Nomination/review process needs to be more transparent

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435273 Please vote for this bug ( you will have to register at bugzilla.mozilla.org ) and comment if you have new ideas. (I am writing you because I am a user of your add-on for Firefox.)

reset current search engine to default

Hi, I'm trying to write an add-on that resets the current search engine to the default engine after a certain period of time. I've tried setting the preference values of browser.search.selectedEngine and browser.search.defaultEngineName, but the change is only visible after firefox is restarted. I had a look at nsIBrowseSearchService but couldn't find any function that allows search engine reset / setting current search engine. The last thing I tried was to have a look at the source search.xml of search component, and it seems like a notifyObservers call is made when there's

tracking external sources

On the Statistics Dashboard for our addon (gliider), I do not see any information about tracking external sources. We have our addon on our own server for download, as well as on AMO. We would like the downloads for our site to show up in the Statistics Dashboard. Can someone point me to documentation for this? Thanks. Susan

Extension Beta update channel

Summary at the end of post. Many extension developers are often lone individuals with limited resources to fully test their extension before a release (given the matrix of OSs, application versions, working with other themes and extensions, and new features to test). This leads to bugs that may not become apparent in the testing phase and may bypass the extension reviewer. Any fix that the developer makes needs to go back to the add- on reviewer, and the cycle repeats itself indefinite until all the bugs are fixed. Often, this is a slow and frustrating problem. However, if you pau

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Cannot Login with AOC 1.04 (and any previous)

Although it was said over and over again it still does not wok even with latest 1.04 and FF 3.5.6. I tried disabling most addons and still when clicking Login button in options nothing happens nothing shows up just as it would not work. It wasn't working with previous versions (only first one worked when was released). Any ideas? Any info needed?

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Cutting down the review queue - Mentoring System

Hello, newbie on this group here, I had just read the article "Burning down the Add-On review queues" on the mozilla blog at http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/11/13/burning-down-the-add-on-review-queues/ - and left a (rather verbose) comment on this, which I would like to share and put up for discussion. Please don't take offense if this happens to mirror some of the ideas that I am sure some of you guys already have come up with, this is just my independant approach which comes from my first year of fervent Extension Development for Thunderbird, and I am still a very strong

Who will update the awesome "Sage" feed reader?

Sage is by far the best feed reader I have ever used (and I've tested several). Unfortunately, Sage is not compatible with Firefox 3.6 beta 1 (sub-folders can't be opened or closed). *Bug* Make Sage compatible with Firefox 3.6 (sidebar folders don't open & close) https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=22003 Is there some kind developer out there who could please update Sage? *Resources* Sage add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77 Sage homepage: http://www.petea.org/ Source code and nightly builds: http://www.petea.org/develop/ Any help would

no Subscriptions pane

When I install the Add-on collector, I still can not find the Subscriptions pane in the Tools - Add-ons. My firefox version is 3.5.5, also I have installed All-in-One Sidebar.

Getting "no install script." Is my RDF missing something?

I'm having a weird problem. When I use the Add-On Builder I get a perfectly functioning XPI if I rename the file from .zip to .xpi. It will install in Firefox without a problem. This is great, but of course it's just a blank Add-On. I want my code in there. To do that I have to unzip the thing, edit the files, and zip it back up again, right? [b]BUT[/b], If I extract the ZIP, and even without editing, zip it back up again, and rename it to an XPI, I get a "no install script" error when I attempt to use it. As far as I can tell, my [b]install.rdf [/b] file has everything it needs. Wh

[TB] customDBHeaders / Content-Type

Hi, I'm trying to read out the MIME content-type via getStringProperty() according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Thunderbird/Creating_a_Custom_Column, but it won't work (I've added "content-type" to the mailnews.customDBHeaders preference before and rebuilt the .msf's). After inspecting TB's sources, it seems to me TB already reads out content-type on its own anyway, even without an customDBHeaders entry, for some parsing purposes (e.g. whether an attachment or S/MIME stuff is included, by looking for a multipart entry in the content-type field). It ignor

Add-On Collector - No Way to Create Account????

Hi, I recently downloaded the 'Add-On Collector' and have the rediculis problem of not being able to sign up for an account. In the Add-On Collector---> Options, there is a button to log in but when I push that two frames briefly flash on my screen and disappear. When I go to the site where I downloaded the addon and pull up the detailed version of the addon's page... the link to 'addon collector homepage' just sends me to mozilla.org. When I search Mozilla.org for 'add-on collector account' I finally get to the page that I think is going to resolve this insane issue, so I click

Unable to use premade collection as auto-publisher

Im unable to use my collection i made before as an auto-publisher collection. Even though i used the same name, it created a new collection with _same_name_ .... Could this be changed so people can use their pre-made collections also as an auto-publisher collection?

Batching add-on updates...

[Followups to mozilla.dev.apps.firefox] One common complaint about Firefox is that it "updates too often". It has been suggested that users may actually be complaining about frequent *add-on* updates, and not Firefox security updates. The thought struck me that we could help mitigate this by batching add-on updates so they occur less frequently. As a simple example, have AMO defer advertising updates until the first Wednesday after the update is approved. Consider a user with lots of frequently-updated extensions installed -- instead of experiencing an update nearly daily, th

Someone please update the awesome SAGE feed reader to trunk

The Sage[1] add-on recently stopped working in the trunk nightlies[2]. The feeds are no longer bolded when there are new articles (which forces one to select and load each feed to see if there's a new article) and the folders look like bookmarks an cannot be opened/collapsed[3]. I consider Sage by far the best and most efficient feed reader! Could someone please tweak Sage to again work in the nightly builds? [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/77 (original) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7263 (discontinued) http://himag.blog26.fc2.com/

How to addons move from the REPO to the FILES_HOST?

We are running an installation of AMO at http://activities.sugarlabs.org . While not quite on the same scale as AMO, we are still shipping 100 to 150G per day and increasing at about 25% per month. As such I implemented mirrorbrain as a mirror management system. Everything is going smoothly. But one question I still have is how do you move content from the REPO to the FILES host? Currently we are just using a symlink between the two. But as we move the download server to a separate machine the symlink will no longer work. Reading the Remora documentation, I thought that addons

cache/bookmark HTTP POST request

One of the financial portal provides information about stocks I'm interested in. Accessing this information requires filling a complex form, that sends data using HTTP POST method. I'm interested in caching HTTP Request on the client-side (browser) and re-sending it every week. Caching HTTP Response doesn't make sense in this application context, because stock data changes quite often. I know it is not recommended to cache HTTP POST request, because by definition it not an idempotent operation (http://tinyurl.com/yj2mge6). However, in this case it behaves as idempotent HTTP G

Why is the post text truncated in the RSS Feed?

Ive subscribed to this group in Google Reader. Can we please include the full text of the post in the RSS instead of having it truncated to a certain character length? Thanks.

Review of my add-on

Hey guys, I submitted an update to my SpellBound add-on a while ago. The issue is that I had initially released an update (3.0.7) that had a small bug in it so I went back and released a new verison (3.0.8) and deleted 3.0.7. When I did this it seems that I lost a few reviews that were given to the add-on. Now, I am afraid that the update may fall through the cracks and never get approved!. So two questions: 1) Was there a better way to submit a fix to my update? 2) How long should I expect to wait until the update is approved? The update added language support to the spell-ch

Feedback on parts of new Add-on Developer Hub

Hi there, If you follow AMO news at all, you've probably heard about our upcoming developer site -- the one-stop shop for add-on developers to find out why they'd want to make an add-on, how to make an add-on, and manage their add-ons on AMO. We're getting close to release of this site at the end of the month, and we have a good bit of content ready, so I'd like to ask for any feedback you have, mainly on the specific sections mentioned below. * How-to Library This section has tutorials, videos, articles, and other resources of interest to add-on developers on various top

A few questions about Experimental state

Hi, I apologize in advance if this is not the right place for this question, but I've read all of the documentation, and searched in various places but could not find the answers I need. I understand that if I submit a new addon, it is in the sandbox, and is not available to the public. But every user who is registered to the AMO site can see my addon (marked as experimental) and install it if he approves the terms? All docs I found talk about enabling sandbox, but it is obsolete, right? I saw a lot of docs about what it needs in order to get the addon approved, but are there an

Request - Usenet cross post fix?

I'd really appreciate it if someone with dev skills could look into creating a fix for identifying and marking cross posted messages as read. This feature seems to have been ignored for several years and would be a very popular improvement for Tbird 2.x and the new soon-to-be-released Tbird 3.x, if it can be done. Thank you! :-)

A public mailing list for questions on add-on reviews and for contacting editors?

Hello, I sent three messages to the "amo-editors@mozilla.org" mailing list, at various moments during the last three weeks, but got no responses so far. I think one of the following may have happened: * My messages didn't arrive to the list. * The replies didn't reach me. * Nobody answered to the messages. I'm wondering if there's a specific reason why there is only a private mailing list (I mean without public archives) where editors can be contacted, or it is just how things were set up in the beginning and the situation is likely to change as new needs emerge. Of course,

Add-on Meetups in Miami & Chicago

Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know that Mozilla is hosting add-on meetups in Miami, FL & Chicago IL this month. If you've ever wondered what Mozilla add-ons are or wanted to explore building the next great web experience via add-ons, these meetups are for you. The dates are as follows: Miami, FL: Sept 15th Details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/AddonMeetups:2009:Miami Chicago, IL: Sept 29th Details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/AddonMeetups:2009:Chicago We'll discuss some of the newest initiatives going on in the Mozilla add-on ecosystem including Collections, Contributions &

Rants and suggestions about the addon site

Ladies and Gentlemen, I will try to keep this civil, but I'm really livid about this. I submitted an updated version of my addon, EditPrefs, on 27 Jul (it's not much of an addon I know, but that's neither here nor there). As the days passed by, I'd take a look at the status (through 'Manage Versions') and see it was 'In Sandbox, Pending Review' (or something to that effect) to see if it's been approved and made public. Days pass by, then weeks. Nothing. Finally, I start poking/playing around and make the discovery that changing my status 'back to Sandbox' would make the new ver

Users Unaware of Add-on Vulnerabilities

I'm concerned about users who may not be aware of recently discovered vulnerabilities in several add-ons. I probably wouldn't have been aware of this myself had it not been for a Google email alert with the title "Three Firefox Add-Ons are Faulty!". When there are issues with Firefox, news and media outlets all post about them but how do/will add-on users find out about critical security issues? Should Mozilla provide warnings/notices through Firefox about add-on vulnerabilities that could allow access and destruction to a persons computer data independent of Firefox? I think that

Fennec support for existing add-ons on AMO

A quick note on multiple release channels mentioned on http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2009/08/24/new-york-city-add-ons-meetup-wrap-up/ -- I'm developing a version of Shareaholic for Fennec -- and since mobile is such a different user experience, it makes sense making it a separate add-on with its own user exp, vs. trying to cram it into one. Instead of creating a totally separate listing on AMO for "Shareaholic for Fennec", it would be great if one could add an alternative download link for a Fennec specific version within the same listing. Is there another alternative? Thinking

problem adding external resources (css, js) to a page

I've tried many ways to add external resources to a page with no avail. for example: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ var headID = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0]; var newScript = document.createElement('script'); newScript.type = 'text/javascript'; newScript.src = 'chrome://myext/content/somescript.js'; headID.appendChild(newScript); ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ and then i would try to access a function in 'somescript'. i can't get it to work. DOM explorer shows the script as part of the page (in the header), but even an alert at global level in "somescript" won't pop up. i have

Ordered display of preview screenshots

Hi, I have noticed that the add-on page does not display the preview screenshots in the same order as they are on the "Preview Manager" page for the add-on. Is it possible to maintain the order of the preview screenshots in the add-on page? Also, a set of buttons on the "Preview Manager" page for re-ordering the preview screenshots would be great help. Thanks. -- Subrata

Add-on Compatibility Helper

Hi dev.amo friends, Below is a spec for an extension that would possibly be bundled with alpha and beta builds of Firefox to help identify compatibility issues and non-issues early on. Please take a look if you're interested in this topic and reply with any feedback. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Acwo2Bn17-PrZGZudHRobnJfMTFnbTRqcDlkcg&hl=en Thanks Justin

Disclosure of Add-on Practices

Hi dev.amo friends, Below is a proposal/spec for something new that I'm calling Disclosure of Add-on Practices. We're seeing more and more add-ons doing things that users may not be okay with, and we want to make sure these are accurately and uniformly disclosed so that the user can make an educated decision before installing the add-on. Spec: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Acwo2Bn17-PrZGZudHRobnJfOGhka2RocGdk&hl=en Design bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511706 A note on "first run experience" - this does not include basic first-run pages, but does

Collections Phase II

Hi dev.amo friends, A while back I posted some potential features for the second phase of collections to this newsgroup and asked for feedback. We took that feedback into account when writing up the spec for the next phase, but I recently realized I never actually posted that spec here. This is our plan for the next phase of collections, which is already mostly implemented (code freeze is today) and should be pushed live later next week. http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Acwo2Bn17-PrZGZudHRobnJfMGdrMmM5cmdx&hl=en Justin

Printing

Hi, I'm looking for a plugin or a way for me to print a list of email headers in a folder. Justin

Addons pages hardly render with JavaScript off

Please add some text onto addons pages if JavaScript is turned off it is rather weird to see the surrounding stuff present and a a big hole in the center entirely void of content. But I doubt that massive missing content is sufficient for users to know that JavaScript is turned off. -- HTH, David McRitchie, extensions I use are briefly documented on my site Firefox Custom: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm

Please show updated "place in queue" for review

Hello, I'm a firefox extension developer. When I initially submit a new version of my extension, it tells me my extension's place in the queue for review. As far as I can tell, there's no way to check back later as to the current place in the review queue. Would you please add this feature? If it's already there, how do I get to this information? Thanks for considering, Jason

please restore 'date added ' in the 'Add Ons' listings for Firefox and Thunderbird

I found it very useful in the past to note the date on which an extension was added or updated in the Add Ons listings. Please restore this information to this useful part of the Mozilla user experience.. Maintaining the lists in order of date added seems critically important to me.

Just a thought about the "Find"

I use FF exclusively now as it is the best browser out there but for all the functionality it offers there is one thing in my job that I could use integrated in it. I don't know much about it but it seems there should be a way to keep the "find" in the status bar at all times without having to click on it each time a session is opened. It is a function I use an awful lot as do the other 240 employees in our office. I don't know how many other people would use such a feature but I know we would. Thanks for reading and as always good job with FF I don't know how we managed so l

Add-on Collector - weaknesses, problems, remedies and suggestions

Thanks for the great Add-on Collector. I would like to point out some problems of this addon and suggest ways of improvement. Thank you for your attention. :-) General: 1. Privacy: Add-on Collector is not truly private even if you checked "Only people I invite can view my collection" 1. The supposedly private collection will be showed in "Related Collections" 2. The supposedly private collection will show in the search if it matches 3. The supposedly private collection is indexed and cached in Google and other web search engines 2. Add a asteris

Removing the Sandbox

I think code review by editors is indispensable as most other 'trusted score' methods are easily to fake. Suggestions 1. Limit the regular update interval of addons: There are addons that release updates every 2 weeks but still get reviewed. This binds enormous editor capacities and prevents other addons from being reviewed. Thus I propse to limit the update interval of addons to e.g. every 6 months as minimum. Allow necessary extra updates, but only if the author can assure that it is e.g. an essential security update. If the author repeately abuses extra updates ignore them for

AMO Contributions - issue

Hello, First of all thanks for starting this pilot, I think it was something that a lot of developers wanted (including me) and it could have a positive impact to the community. It seems slightly buggy for now though: I've enabled the "Only ask on this add-on's page and developer profile" option for zoomFox ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1067 ) but the contribution button does not appear on the main page of the extension. It does appear on the meet the developer page. The only way to make it appear on the main page is to log in into the website. Is that intentio

Add-on Collector - Can no longer see my new collections as subscriptions.

Its convenient to subscribe to my own collections to see how others will see them... This no longer seems to be working? e.g. I have created the collection below and added it to my favourites but it is not showing in my subscriptions. "Workswonders - Speedups - Better Faster Stronger" https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/workswonders-faster I unsubscribed to "Workswonders - Privacy Pack" and then re added to my favourites as a test... Now it is not showing in my subscriptions :( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collection/workswonders-privacypack Ca

Would LOVE to see some Furry add-ons!

Would LOVE to see some Furry add-ons!

[Idea] integrate a tool that makes it 'far' easier to compare the same or similar types of add-ons

This is something that could be invaluable as time goes on! Something that highlights all the main '&' minor points of difference so people can more easily make informed decisions. Perhaps even a tool that goes further & makes suggestions (if wanted) based on some pre-defined needs/parameters. But also based on a add- ons compatibility and the performance/stability impact it may have on the build in question... Just a concept, could be very cool & help keep you guys slightly abreast of the Big G! -jed.

amo website

I don't know if this is the right place to complain, but when I visit: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843 and make the page narrow, the screenshot overlaps the text. jjb

How to add newlines on Developer Profile infos?

Every newline added on "Why I Made this Add-on" and "What's Next for this Add-on" is removed. Should be possible to maintain newlines?

Current process for sandbox etiquette?

Hi all, I've searched this group and read the directions as AMO, but I'm still not entirely clear about the sandbox process. I just recently made an extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12854 and it is in the sandbox currently. On the developer tools site, it says I need to nominate it in order for it to see the light of the day in public status. It also says that it needs to first be reviewed in order to do that. So, do I reach out to developers to test / review it? Does it go into a queue of sorts where it will be looked at in time, or to only people who