Reviewers' Extensions is a tool aimed at assisting AMO Editors in decision making. It can be considered a live "verification suite". Right now the capabilities are limited as this extensions is still in early development.
Open the overview window from the Tools menu or the extension toolbar button. Alternatively about:reviewersext is available.
The Overview window provides various panes offering different information, that are described in the following sections.
The Globals pane shows what new global symbols where created in the global scope of browser.xul. Futhermore changes in common built-in prototypes will be detected
Before you first use this feature you need to take a base profile by using the Use as base button. You should have all extensions disabled that you'd like to later review, of course, or else they would be part of the base profile and hence not show up at all.
Right now only browser.xul will be inspected, support for other chrome windows is planned (similar to DOM Inspector.
The Requests pane displays all remote requests not coming from a webpage, i.e. coming from chrome or an about module or similar. The requests are rated by their severity.
The list is updated live.
Please note that there might be false positives when it comes to severity.
Right now the following issues are detected, rated and displayed:
Please note: There is no update mechanism enabled right now. So better check back later.
Right now there is a public read-only subversion repository:
If you'd like write access or submit patches then get in touch with me. See my About page for details.
The code is licensed under MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1.
Icons are taken from famfamfam silk and the Tango Project. See the specific licenses.
A lot :p, hence the following list is incomplete.
© 2009 by Nils Maier - some rights reserved.
