Friday, May 29, 2015

How to develop a Firefox extension - Part One

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As with everything Mozilla, the first place you should look for developer documentation is the Mozilla Developer Network. There’s an add-ons sectionthere where you will find everything you need to know about how to develop Firefox extensions, as well as other add-on types.
There are a couple different ways to go about creating an extension for Firefox, so I covered each in the sections below.

Add-ons SDK extensions
The Add-ons SDK is a set of simple APIs you can use to quickly build good Firefox extensions. It’s what we recommend for new developers. It should be easy to work with, especially if you’re familiar with Google Chrome extensions or userscripts. It abstracts away most of the XUL / XPCOM infractrusture in Firefox, giving you a more familiar HTML and JS environment to work with.
The current approach to building an SDK extension is to download and set up the SDK, code locally,  then package your extension (an XPI file) using the cfx tool included with the SDK. The SDK team is working on making this process much easier by integrating it into Firefox developer tools. Soon you’ll be able to build your extensions very quickly, right from Firefox.

You can learn more about the SDK and get help here:



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Part One
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzGWcPjlfTIneE10LWNib3Z0UVk/view?usp=sharing

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