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Greg · 12-05-2006, 06:58 AM

Anyone know any good tutorials for creating my own addon extension for firefox 2.0?

Paul Mernon · 12-05-2006, 10:52 AM

Here is a couple of links:

Building an Extension - MDC
Extension development - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

I'm also recommend reading this tutorial, although it is about XUL, not about extensions, but it cover many thing you will need when making your own extension:

XUL Tutorial - MDC

The three sites which were most useful to me while building my own extension:

Main Page - MDC
XULPlanet.com
Knowledge Base - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

The problem with tutorials for building extensions for Firefox is that they show how to build a simple "Hello world" extension, but to make it do something meaningful you need to know many things - XUL, JavaScript, sometimes XPCOM, XML, DOM, HTML, etc. And information is scattered through many places, so I often had to keep several pages open for reference while writing code.

Another potential issue is that Firefox is constantly developed, and documentation don't keep up with it, so you can happen to use outdated reference, or miss some feature that was implemented but wasn't documented.

I'm on the finishing phase of building the first version of my own first Firefox extension, so feel free to ask.

Greg · 12-05-2006, 07:36 PM

Cool - thanks!

Dwane J. · 12-06-2006, 04:22 AM

Try this link

Tutorials - FireFox Hacker

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Paul Mernon Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Moscow, Russia Posts: 17	Here is a couple of links: Building an Extension - MDC Extension development - MozillaZine Knowledge Base I'm also recommend reading this tutorial, although it is about XUL, not about extensions, but it cover many thing you will need when making your own extension: XUL Tutorial - MDC The three sites which were most useful to me while building my own extension: Main Page - MDC XULPlanet.com Knowledge Base - MozillaZine Knowledge Base The problem with tutorials for building extensions for Firefox is that they show how to build a simple "Hello world" extension, but to make it do something meaningful you need to know many things - XUL, JavaScript, sometimes XPCOM, XML, DOM, HTML, etc. And information is scattered through many places, so I often had to keep several pages open for reference while writing code. Another potential issue is that Firefox is constantly developed, and documentation don't keep up with it, so you can happen to use outdated reference, or miss some feature that was implemented but wasn't documented. I'm on the finishing phase of building the first version of my own first Firefox extension, so feel free to ask.

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