New add-ons manager in Firefox 4
Add-on-Con 2010
Rewritten add-ons manager
- Easier to improve in the future
- Faster to start Firefox
- No more dependency support
New ways to develop
- Restartless extensions
- Add-ons SDK
Simpler component registration
- Less boilerplate
- Only execute JS when necessary
- Platform APIs work immediately
XPIs remain unextracted
- Smaller footprint
- Better performance
- Should be turned off in some cases:
- Binary components/libraries
- Install locations
- Search plugins
- Dictionaries
Remotely updating metadata
- Downloaded daily
- Includes descriptions, icons, contributors
- Contribution support baked into the browser
- Add-ons can opt-out
Remotely updating metadata
Better API for accessing add-ons
- Access any data that is visible in the UI
- Asynchronous access
Embedding your own items
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Other improvements
- Changing add-on ID
- Larger icons
- Automatic updates
More communication
New appearance UI
Embedded preferences
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