Some handy tools for Firefox developers
There are some really good resources floating around out there for aspiring Firefox developers. The difficult part is finding them all under one roof. Here are a couple of things that I’ve found or used over the past few days / months / years, so I thought I’d share a couple of them with you, and some of you out there could add to the list.
Ted Mielczarek has created a really handy-dandy extension wizard for either Firefox or Thunderbird authors. It creates a skeleton shell of an extension that lays out the code properly and has all the correct formats in place. It’s a really good start for someone who’s experimenting with extension creations.
He also has a plethora of extensions and other developer tools at his web site, so I suggest you check them out:
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/
Another useful tool (which might becoming obsolete soon, thanks to new, more friendlier ways of creating identifiers) is right here on this web site, although it doesn’t have a really clear link to it:
http://extensions.roachfiend.com/cgi-bin/guid.pl
It will generate valid GUIDs and you can also see how the script is set up.
Feel free to list some good resources you may have found around the net.
P.S. Buy my camera.
October 1st, 2006 at 7:27 pm
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Setting_up_extension_development_
environment#Install_development_extensions
Someone should migrate that to MDC and we can new things there.
The ‘one roof’ you’re looking for is at http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions
October 1st, 2006 at 7:30 pm
The URL got messed up, http://tinyurl.com/zu765
October 7th, 2006 at 7:48 am
Allow Right Click doesn’t work on firefox 1.5.0.7
October 16th, 2006 at 3:50 pm
We just rolled out a new tool on NowPublic called highlight and I wanted to see what you thought about it. I think you’ll find it interesting.
Check it out. Here is the link with the info:
http://www.nowpublic.com/highlight
Thanks,
V.
Here’s a bit more info about highlight:
Highlight is a way for regular people to link their world to ‘official’ news. It’s a firefox extension that helps anyone connect the official news world to user-generated content. Just like the highlighter you use to mark up things in the paper world, highlight grabs important (or infuriating!) quotes, news bites and kicks off a conversation on NowPublic.
But here’s where it gets interesting. When our members add photos or video to your story the published footage gets re-posted to the highlighter’s blog. We also link to the blog so the highlighter get traffic and props for starting the conversation. The tool also does some crazy auto-tagging too so anyone can post stuff almost totally effortlessly.