Extensions development resources categorized by tags.
Developer Resources tags
RegExp,
XPI signing,
XUL,
XUL examples,
algorithms,
extensions for extensions developers,
filter matching,
form inputs,
forums,
installing,
localizations,
porting extensions,
scripts,
selection
Developer Resources
- BabelZilla - Community system to allow online translations.
- BabelZilla Glossary Extension - Suggests a translation of the selected text via BabelZilla Glossary.
- Chrome List - Browse all the chrome packages registered with Firefox in a convenient tree view.
- Console² - Replaces the JavaScript Console with what could be the next generation Error Console.
- Extension Developer's Extension - Meta-extension for developers, allow test JavaScript, prototyping XUL layouts, and building XPI packages.
- Extension List Dumper - List installed extensions and themes as plain text or as HTML.
- Extension Tracker - Tracks your extensions on addons.mozilla.org.
- Externalize Strings - Semi-automatically transforms strings from .xul/xml and .js files into entities for the locale dtd / properties files.
- Get field with the the last focus - A great way of get the text of the current focused textbox/input or textarea.
- How to hack extensions to make them compatible with SeaMonkey - Provides a template install script for SeaMonkey and describe possibles problems when porting extensions to SeaMonkey.
- Investigating filter matching algorithms - Improving the performance of Adblock’s filter matching.
- Leak Monitor - It detects when JavaScript objects in the chrome or Web page are still held by native code after the window is closed.
- MDC : Code_snippets:Signing_a_XPI -
- MozillaZine : Signing XPI files -
- MozillaZine Forums : Extensions and Themes - Discussion forum about releases and development of extensions and themes.
- MR Tech's Local Install - Power tool for management of extensions and themes, edit My config and other hacks.
- Nightly Tester Tools - Adds a few extras useful to those that regularly test nightly builds.
- o-regan.org - XPISigner - Code Signing -
- Packing add-ons with PHP 5 - PHP script to pack an addon using PHP 5.
- Quick Locale Switcher - Switch the general.user.agent.locale preference, useful for test/switch extensions localizations.
- Signing a Firefox extension with a Windows Authenticode SSL certificate / key -
- Simple Signed XPI Testcases -
- So you want to sign your XPI package? -
- SQLite Manager - Shows the database structure in an intuitive heirarchical tree. Browse and manage tables, indexes, views and triggers.
- Update Channel Selector - Allows you to change the update channel your application receives updates from.
- userChrome.js - Run Javascript like an extension without building a new extension.
- XPCOM Viewer - Source browsing, reports and bookmark of available XPCOM classes, interfaces and results.
- XPI Installation Return Codes - Error codes triggered by the installation process.
- XUL Periodic Table - Big list of XUL examples.
- XUL Planet - XUL reference, tutorials and examples.