[Novalug] Links from the Firefox Extensions Talk

Igor Birman igor_birman at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 5 15:02:53 EDT 2008


Below are the links that I used to lean to create extensions and that I use to develop web sites.  Thanks everyone for coming to the talk and I hope some of this is useful! 

TUTORIALS

Building an extension, walks through the process of creating a "Hello World" extension and has lots of links: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Building_an_Extension

Getting started guide from mozilazine: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_extension_development

Extension tutorial: http://www.rietta.com/firefox/Tutorial/overview.html


DOCUMENTATION/REFERENCE:

Extension documentation: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions
CSS Reference: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_reference.asp
Link to browser XUL: chrome: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul


TOOLS:

Extension wizard - has a fill in form and creates a basic extension that you can download:
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensionwiz/

Extension Developer's Extension: http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/

DOM Inspector: http://kb.mozillazine.org/DOM_Inspector


USEFUL EXTENSIONS:

Web Developer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
Firebug: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843


OTHER:
Morse code interpreter: http://cyberigor.com/morse.html


IRC: The #extdev IRC channel on moznet has been very helpful.
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