Writing a Firefox extension

Links

• http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/
• http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_an_Extension
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Extension_development
• http://www.bolinfest.com/firefox/build.html (a page with links to other tutorials)
• http://www.rietta.com/firefox/Tutorial/overview.html
• http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/toc/ (if you want to use greasemonkey)

Meta (environment setup, profiles, debugging etc):

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Setting_up_extension_development_environment
• http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles
• http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments
• http://blogger.ziesemer.com/2007/10/javascript-debugging-in-firefox.html

Hints

• This is a shell script that can be used to automatically package the extension in one xpi file:

rm extension.xpi
mkdir -p build/chrome
cd chrome/extension
zip -r extension.jar .
mv extension.jar ../../build/chrome
cd ../..
cp install.* build
cd build
zip -r extension.xpi .
mv extension.xpi ..
cd ..
rm -rf build