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November 14, 2005

Extension Development for 1.5

A couple of months back I wrote an article at the Mozilla Developer Center about building extensions for Firefox and Thunderbird 1.5. I realized I hadn't linked to it from here.

A while ago I posted about the changes that had been made to Firefox in the upcoming release to make extension development easier. This tutorial shows how to get a boilerplate extension up and running, usually in less than 5 minutes on most systems.

Posted by ben at November 14, 2005 4:13 PM

Comments

Thank You! This post couldn't have come at a better time. I'm preparing to write my first Firefox extension, and this answers pretty much all my questions about setting up a development environment.

Posted by: Cassidy Napoli at November 14, 2005 6:10 PM

Great! This is very useful, seems like I missed the original post.

Posted by: amorson at November 15, 2005 12:32 AM

What's the purpose of the chromeFiles directory in that extension tutorial, isn't it unnecesssary? Couldn't you just have:

extension.xpi:
/chrome/
/chrome/content/

etc.

Posted by: FP at November 15, 2005 1:15 AM

Its about time!! lol thanks for posting the link Ben.Took me 7 minutes but I am still learning:)

Posted by: Jessica at November 15, 2005 11:59 AM

What's happened to <updateLink/> support, for those of us who can't (or don't want to) put our extensions on addons.mozilla.org? Is there any documentation that's not either out of date or "preliminary"?

Posted by: Peter J. at November 16, 2005 10:35 PM

Hi,

I'm running FF1.5 on OSX 10.3.7. Since the upgrade, I can't seem to get the drag-to-tab extension working anymore.
I really miss and need the drag-to-tab -- any ideas how to get it back?

Thanks,

Wayne
wgkopp at hotmail dot com

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