Tag Archives: addons
Wordpress Browser Update

WordPress Surprise

on 4-Jan-2012 in Blogging, Lizard

Today I opened Firefox 3.6 to test an add-on I am working on (yes, many still support it) and saw this notice in the WordPress Dashboard. Well, it is not a surprise really, as WordPress has been doing great things for the Web to move it forward since it’s inception. They are Open Source. The [...]

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Pretty Install

Pretty Install

on 10-May-2011 in Briks, Lizard

There was a plan to turn the Firefox add-on install dialog into a doorhanger dialog (bug 588266). This has been abandoned in favour of an approach using tabs (bug 643020). Rather than let the work for the former approach go to waste, we are releasing it as an add-on. USAGE: It only works for remote [...]

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Collections

Something Else Is Coming to Firefox 4

on 21-Mar-2011 in Lizard

A sneak peek… coming very soon. Can’t see the image? Click here.

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The Add-ons Wall

Add-ons: To SDK Or Not To SDK

on 17-Jan-2011 in Lizard

Myk Melez’s recent post on the Jetpack project 2011 roadmap is timely. Firefox 4 final is approaching fast. Quite a decent percentage of add-on authors have updated their add-on already. For those who have not, I imagine some are wondering whether they should migrate from the traditional XUL add-on approach to using the SDK. It’s [...]

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Happenings in Extension Land

on 15-Sep-2010 in Lizard

There has been a lot happening around Mozilla Extensions with implications for developers and users. And much has come to a head in the last few days. For my own benefit but also for everyone in case you missed something, here’s an aggregation of what I found. If there is anything else, let me know. [...]

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Xultris

Xultris : Mobile Add-on Game Goodness

on 16-Jul-2010 in Briks, Lizard

While I’m not a gamer in general, I do love retro-games. I’ve been thinking that on Mobile, games provide great opportunities for Firefox add-on developers. They are a great way to spend that short bus ride, for example. I think there should be a Games category on Mozilla Add-ons. At Briks we wanted to showcase [...]

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Love Your Add-ons

MAOW London Rundown

on 2-Jul-2010 in Events, Lizard

On Wednesday, a very hot day in London Town, the last day in June, we had a Mozilla Add-ons Workshop. It was a day without football, and while England may have been knocked out, everyone seemed in fine spirits. A fitting day, as Mozilla Add-ons was fast approaching the 2 billion download mark. A fine [...]

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Big Ben

Hack the Browser, London Style

on 31-May-2010 in Events, Lizard

Calling all software developers in the UK and Ireland. If you are interested in the Web, an event not to miss is the upcoming Mozilla Add-ons Workshop in London. It is an evening event scheduled for 6:30pm -10:30pm on 30 June. We’ll be talking about extending Firefox, the latest and upcoming happenings on the Mozilla [...]

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Collecting Add-ons In More Applications

on 11-Mar-2010 in Briks, Lizard

If you are an add-on fan and missed the Mozilla Add-ons blog post about the new Add-on Collector release (1.1), be sure and go and read it: Add-on Collector now supports Thunderbird, Seamonkey, and Mobile This is a project that Dave and I at Briks really enjoy working on. The challenge for this release was [...]

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Zemanta Compose

Jazz-up your Thunderbird Mail with Zemanta

on 25-Feb-2010 in Briks, Lizard

Zemanta‘s semantic technology has been around in Firefox for a while now via their add-on, which is just one of the tools in their set. Amongst other things it provides you with image, link, and article suggestions based on your content as you write blog posts or compose (Web)emails. This weeks sees releases that support [...]

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