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shadyabhi
shadyabhi

Reputation: 17234

How to start developing Mozilla Firefox addons?

Guide me on the appropriate technologies to learn to start developing Mozilla firefox addons & later addons for Songbird & Thunderbird.

What all technologies and softwares are needed. I use ubuntu 9.10 64 bit.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3624

Answers (4)

Yuval Adam
Yuval Adam

Reputation: 165192

JetPack might be of interest if you want to get some quick and dirty implementations using nothing but JavaScript and some CSS rules.

Upvotes: 0

Pascal MARTIN
Pascal MARTIN

Reputation: 400922

If you're trying to write a Firefox extension, here's a post on mozilla's blog about that : How to develop a Firefox extension

Maybe this tutorial can help, too : How to create Firefox extensions (It's a bit old, though...)

Upvotes: 0

Buhake Sindi
Buhake Sindi

Reputation: 89169

The best way to start is to go the Mozilla Extensions (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions) page and see what interests you.

For building addons (called Extensions on Mozilla) you can see the page here (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Building_an_Extension) where it shows you in details how to create a Hello World extension.

There's an extensive tutorial here: http://www.rietta.com/firefox/index.html

For more, visit Mozilla Extension page.

Upvotes: 0

Sagi
Sagi

Reputation: 8011

Which type of addons?

  1. Extensions: JavaScript and XUL. You can get started here.
  2. Plugins: NPAPI, the Gecko Plugin API. You can read the complete guide here.

There is a nice wizard for generating extension skeletons.

Basiclly, if you are using this wizard, you will need to know primarly JavaScript.

Upvotes: 5

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