Extend Firefox: Your Guide to Writing Firefox Extensions

Wednesday, November 09, 2005

After three weeks of work, the first draft of Extend Firefox is complete and available at http://www.rietta.com/~frank/firefox/.

This document explores the process for creating an extension for Firefox 1.5. The topics covered include adding a button to the status bar, adding a menu item, adding a preference pane. The tutorial goes in depth, with copious code samples, how to actually do something with the buttons once they are added. The sample code is all from program called Home Page Scheduler that was developed for this tutorial.

I was a member of the team of Georgia Tech students who developed this document as part of a technical communications class. Check it out and feel free to post any comments here.

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I am a software developer who has been marketing on the internet since 1999. I hold an MS in Information Security from the Georgia Institute of Technology, from where I previously earned a BS in Computer Science in 2005. I ran an Atlanta-based web hosting business from 1999 until I sold it in 2005.


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