rietta.com — A nice tutorial teaching how Firefox's Extensions work and how to create them. Feb 19, 2006 View in Crawl 4
obsessiveatbestFeb 20, 2006
The actual location of the starting of the tutorail is:<a class="user" href="http://www.rietta.com/~frank/firefox/Tutorial/overview.html">http://www.rietta.com/~frank/firefox/Tutorial/overview.html</a>
comrade693Feb 20, 2006
@listrophyNot sure if you'll read this, but someone has created something that creates all the stub files here:<a class="user" href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=381720">http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=381720</a>
just2diggFeb 21, 2006
Useful site but not enough I think.. Mozilla should have a more in depth tutorial on its own dev site.
mincusFeb 21, 2006
Just glancing over the linked tutorial, I see he suggests using Winzip to zip and package the XPI. This gets really old by the second time you need to repackage your extension. Something like 7-zip and a batch file (if you are on Windows) makes repackaging everything in your extension a one click process.When I started off creating Adsense Notifier, the tutorial that was the most helpful to me was from roachfiend - <a class="user" href="http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/">http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/</a> (same guy who made the BugMeNot extension)
pickupjojoFeb 21, 2006
Wow, very nice :<a class="user" href="http://www.ctrlaltsuppr.com/message34467.html#p34467">http://www.ctrlaltsuppr.com/message34467.html#p34467</a>^^
mincusJun 5, 2006
He's using bugmenot as an example to show how to make an extension - may as well go to the tutorial from the developer who created that extension - <a class="user" href="http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/">http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/</a>That's the tutorial that got me started when I created Adsense Notifier - <a class="user" href="http://code.mincus.com/3/adsense-notifier/">http://code.mincus.com/3/adsense-notifier/</a>
washoetechSep 24, 2006
Hey tom petty,Your a f**king idiot.
peter0081Jun 13, 2008
I tried this tutorial with firefox 2.0.14 and it sucks. The example file s and such are all incomplete.Don't lose your time.<a class="user" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions">http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions</a><a class="user" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Setting_up_extension_development_environment">http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Setting_up_ex ...</a><a class="user" href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_extension_development">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_ext ...</a>You're in
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obsessiveatbestFeb 20, 2006
The actual location of the starting of the tutorail is:<a class="user" href="http://www.rietta.com/~frank/firefox/Tutorial/overview.html">http://www.rietta.com/~frank/firefox/Tutorial/overview.html</a>
comrade693Feb 20, 2006
@listrophyNot sure if you'll read this, but someone has created something that creates all the stub files here:<a class="user" href="http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=381720">http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=381720</a>
just2diggFeb 21, 2006
Useful site but not enough I think.. Mozilla should have a more in depth tutorial on its own dev site.
mincusFeb 21, 2006
Just glancing over the linked tutorial, I see he suggests using Winzip to zip and package the XPI. This gets really old by the second time you need to repackage your extension. Something like 7-zip and a batch file (if you are on Windows) makes repackaging everything in your extension a one click process.When I started off creating Adsense Notifier, the tutorial that was the most helpful to me was from roachfiend - <a class="user" href="http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/">http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/</a> (same guy who made the BugMeNot extension)
pickupjojoFeb 21, 2006
Wow, very nice :<a class="user" href="http://www.ctrlaltsuppr.com/message34467.html#p34467">http://www.ctrlaltsuppr.com/message34467.html#p34467</a>^^
mincusJun 5, 2006
He's using bugmenot as an example to show how to make an extension - may as well go to the tutorial from the developer who created that extension - <a class="user" href="http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/">http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/</a>That's the tutorial that got me started when I created Adsense Notifier - <a class="user" href="http://code.mincus.com/3/adsense-notifier/">http://code.mincus.com/3/adsense-notifier/</a>
washoetechSep 24, 2006
Hey tom petty,Your a f**king idiot.
peter0081Jun 13, 2008
I tried this tutorial with firefox 2.0.14 and it sucks. The example file s and such are all incomplete.Don't lose your time.<a class="user" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions">http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions</a><a class="user" href="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Setting_up_extension_development_environment">http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Setting_up_ex ...</a><a class="user" href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_extension_development">http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_ext ...</a>You're in