New Mozilla Add-ons site unveiled
After many delays, a couple of false starts and much effort, the new Mozilla Add-ons site (code name Remora) has gone live and ready to serve Firefox, Thunderbird, Sunbird and SeaMonkey users.
While not many changes can be seen in the outside, important improvements have happened in the background including the creation of a sandbox, an area for extension developers to load their new or updated extensions and be held for review before making them available for user download. Another significant improvement is that it is localizable now and so, available in 10 languages currently. Localization covers menus,buttons and messages, as well as comments, but unfortunately not the add-ons descriptions which remain English only.
A few weeks ago, the previous Mozilla Add-ons was freezed so new and updated add-ons could make it to the sandbox only. As they become approved we can all expect a significant amount of releases aand updates in the coming days.
Check the new Mozilla Add-ons.
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Percy Cabello
Cameron, hopefully localizers will get to that extra mile soon. I’ll say it is the most important part of Mozilla Add-ons as screenshots are not always that helpful.
It went down, as did this post and now it’s back, as this post. Thanks.
jp
A pity that instead of making rating not suck, they abandoned it alltogether.
Otherwise this is a long-overdue improvement, though they could have learned a thing or two from other extension sites (e.g. erweiterungen.de in German) that still do many things better, more complete, and more user friendly.
morganusvitus
The site looks great ! Thanks for all your help ( past, present and future !)
Cameron
Add-on descriptions and metadata are able to be localised, just the add-on developer has to submit the data themselves and very few have yet chosen to do so. It’s unreasonable to expect localisers to translate metadata (description, changelogs, developer comments etc.) for 4500+ add-ons, so the add-on developer uploads the localised metadata themselves – it is expected that add-on developers will get this localised by the same people who localise their add-on.
Oh and the site has been backed out (again) due to performance issues :(
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