Fwd: Action needed: Test your add-ons for Multi-process Firefox compatibility

[Martin Stubenschrott]

fyi, if somebody wants to work on Vimperator on Electrolysis.

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From: Mozilla Add-ons <nob...@mozilla.org>
Date: Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:15 AM
Subject: Action needed: Test your add-ons for Multi-process Firefox compatibility
To: stuben...@vimperator.org


Dear add-on developer,

You might have heard the news[1] that future versions of Firefox will run the browser UI separately from web content. This is called Multi-process Firefox (also "Electrolysis" or "e10s")[2], and it is scheduled for release in the first quarter of 2016[3].

If your add-on code accesses web content directly, using an overlay extension[4], a bootstrapped extension[5], or low-level SDK APIs[6] like window/utils or tabs/utils, then you will probably be affected.

To minimize the impact on users of your add-ons, we are urging you to test your add-ons[7] for compatibility. You can find documentation on how to make them compatible here[8].

Starting Nov. 24, 2015, we are available to assist you every Tuesday in the #addons channel on irc.mozilla.org[9]. Click here[10] to see the schedule. Whether you need help testing or making your add-ons compatible, we're here to help!

Sincerely,
The Add-ons Team

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/08/21/the-future-of-developing-firefox-add-ons/
[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox
[3] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis#Schedule
[4] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Overlay_Extensions
[5] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Bootstrapped_extensions
[6] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Low-Level_APIs
[7] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox#Testing
[8] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Working_with_multiprocess_Firefox#Updating_your_code
[9] irc://irc.mozilla.org/addons
[10] https://atsay.github.io/e10s_office_hours/

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[Gary Katsevman]

Ooh, office hours. Sounds useful.

Gary Katsevman
gkatsev.com

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