Firefox Extensions
One of the things I think I like most about the web browser Mozilla Firefox is the flexibility of using extensions to give you more features. Some of my current favorites are the Google Calendar extension that shows you’re calendar events in the status bar. The Gmail notifier is also a favorite of mine. It’s really the kind of thing that has saved me some time in my daily routine by putting information in plain view without having to open up a new web browsing tab and log in and then check. It helps me to use my time better.
I’ve toyed around with a few ideas for my own firefox extensions and who knows, this may be the page I post them in the future. For now though, I wanted to collect my references here for how to go about writing a firefox extension.
From lifehacker: how to write a firefox extension. Good general overview with links to a few other resources. Includes a great tip to manage separate profiles to do your extension developing so you don’t trash your default profile. (Plan for the worst, hope for the best…)
This how to is probably quite dated now that we’re up to firefox 3.0 but it was one of the first “how to create firefox extension guides out there and may still have some use.
Mozilla of course has a “building an extension” page. This really should be THE authoritative source…
There is a great extension wizard online that will help you construct a skeleton for a new extension which should make getting a new one started a bit quicker than a manual construction of the folder/file structure.
To make life easier there’s also an extension developers extension which packages some tools to make your life easier if you’re writing firefox extensions.
Here is a link to XUL Planet. XUL is the XML markup flavor that firefox uses to build the menu items and dialog boxes that you’ll see in the browser.
Mozillazine’s extension development tutorials.
Mozillazine also has a tutorial on getting started with extension development.
Some people have put together their lists of top firefox extensions.
“firefox extensions” – Google News
Add-on Collector Keeps Your Favorite Firefox Extensions Together to Save or Share – PC World
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Add-on Collector Keeps Your Favorite Firefox Extensions Together to Save or Share
PC World If you're a Firefox add-on aficionado, the free Add-On Collector is for you. Create an automatically maintained list of your current Firefox add-ons with … |
Make Firefox Extensions Compatible with a Simple Hack – Lifehacker
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Make Firefox Extensions Compatible with a Simple Hack
Lifehacker Every time a new version of Firefox arrives, there are always a few well-regarded extensions that stop working, and while there is a Firefox hack to force … |
Mozilla births first Thunderbird 3.1 beta – Register
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Mozilla births first Thunderbird 3.1 beta
Register Mozilla says that in the 50 days since its release, Firefox 3.6 has been downloaded 100000000 times and that 90 per cent of existing Firefox extensions are … |
Browser Saturday: Browser Security Woes, Firefox Account Manager, Opera Mini … – Techie Buzz
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Browser Saturday: Browser Security Woes, Firefox Account Manager, Opera Mini …
Techie Buzz RockYourFirefox would regularly feature some of the best Firefox extensions along with reviews, feedback and insights from Firefox users around the web. … |
Chrome Gets 3000 Extensions, Gaining On Firefox Indicating that its approach … – Softpedia
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Chrome Gets 3000 Extensions, Gaining On Firefox Indicating that its approach …
Softpedia By Lucian Parfeni, Web News Editor Tucked away in a Google Chrome status update post for developers on the official Chromium blog is one tidbit of … |
Mozilla Announces Jetpack for Learning Winners – OStatic (blog)
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Mozilla Announces Jetpack for Learning Winners
OStatic (blog) While Firefox has been successful as a developer platform, standard Firefox extensions require contributors to know XUL and more about the Firefox internals … |
Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked – Tom’s Hardware Guide
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Web Browser Grand Prix: The Top Five, Tested And Ranked
Tom’s Hardware Guide So, why do I remain in Firefox? Extensions first. I use a few, that don't all have equivalent tools in other browsers, but that's not exactly the reason. … How to make Firefox blazing fast in a jiffy: fasterfox add-on Opera Version 10.50 Is Released, Claimed To Be World's Fastest Browser |
Customize Chrome for Better Browsing – Linux Magazine (registration) (blog)
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Customize Chrome for Better Browsing
Linux Magazine (registration) (blog) Google Chrome has only had extensions available for a few months, but it already has a great collection of add-ons that will boost your browsing experience. … Google Chrome extends |
Top 6 Most Powerful Firefox Extension – Gaea Times (blog)
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Top 6 Most Powerful Firefox Extension
Gaea Times (blog) The following is the list for 6 powerful Firefox extensions that can be immense benefits to the end users. FireFTP: This is a free and cross platform client … |
5 Open Source Resources For Boosting Your Productivity – OStatic (blog)
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5 Open Source Resources For Boosting Your Productivity
OStatic (blog) They range from hugely useful Firefox extensions such as iMacros (which lets you record repetitive, multi-step tasks and then execute them with one click) … |
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