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Articles in this category demonstrate the code to do certain things in Mozilla-based products (at this moment, mostly for use in [[Extension development|extensions]]).

Development documentation is in process of being moved to [http://developer.mozilla.org/ Mozilla Development Center] (MDC). You can find more documentation there.

==XUL==
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_toolbar_buttons Creating toolbar buttons] (moved to Devmo)
* [[Adding items to menus]] using overlays (talks about browser's context menu too)
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Creating_a_Firefox_sidebar Creating a Firefox sidebar]
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Code_snippets:Dialogs_and_Prompts#Describing_dialog_windows Creating dialog windows with XUL]
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Dynamically_modifying_XUL-based_user_interface Dynamically modifying XUL-based user interface]. Talks about using DOM API to add, move, and delete widgets from UI at runtime.

==JavaScript==
===Commonly used techniques===
* [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/JavaScript_Console How to log debug information to JavaScript Console].
* [[Dev : Extensions : Example Code : Calling Java from Javascript | Calling Java from Javascript]]

===XPCOM===
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Code_snippets:File_I/O Performing file IO]
*[[Using observers]] for cross-window notifications
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Code_snippets:Running_applications Running applications]
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/nsIFilePicker Using nsIFilePicker]] (Open, Save, Select Directory dialogs)
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/nsIWindowMediator nsIWindowMediator] - enumerating existing windows.
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/nsIPromptService nsIPromptService] (privileged version of alert(), confirm(), prompt() plus their extended versions): [http://ihoss.not-a-blog.com/prompt.php some examples], [http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=236678 forum thread].
*Working with protocols:
**[[Dev : Extending the Chrome Protocol]]
**[http://www.nexgenmedia.net/docs/protocol/ Adding a New Protocol to Mozilla] by Doron Rosenberg.
**[http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=2090958 Using nsIURIContentListener to listen for specific MIME types], e.g., application/x-bittorrent
*[[Implementing XPCOM components in JavaScript]]

===<tabbrowser> related===
*[[Progress listeners|Using progress listeners]]
*[[On Page Load| Executing your code each time a page loads]]
*[[Enumerating tabbrowser tabs|Enumerating tabbrowser tabs]]
*[[Reusing tabs for the same URL|Reusing tabs for the same URL]]
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extension_Code_Snippets:Tabbed_Browser detecting tab selection, addition, removal]
*[[Open page using tab settings|Open_page_using_tab_settings]]

===XML Technologies in Mozilla===
Moved [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Code_snippets:XML here] (MDC)

===Other===
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Working_with_windows_in_chrome_code Working with windows in chrome code] article on Devmo. Discusses various development tasks involving working with windows.
*[[Opening a new browser window (development)|Opening a new browser window]]
*[[Inserting text at cursor]]
*[[Dev : Extensions : Example Code : Creating a XUL mailto: link | Creating a XUL mailto: link]]
*[[Adding files to an extension's uninstallation | Automatically deleting files when the user uninstalls your extension]]
*[[Dev : Extensions : Example Code : Adding Drag and Drop to Statusbarpanel | Adding Drag and Drop to Statusbarpanel]]
*[[Creating sidebar|Creating sidebar extension]]
*[[Sorting Trees]]
*[[Dev : Extensions : Example Code : Encoding| Encoding strings]]
*[[Getting Current URL]]
*[http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Code_snippets:Interaction_between_privileged_and_non-privileged_pages Using events to pass messages from content to chrome]
*[[Dev : Extensions : Example Code : Using the scrollwheel | Using the scrollwheel]]

===Techniques===
* [[Differential inheritance]] in JavaScript using <code>__proto__</code>
*Increasing security with [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XPCNativeWrapper XPCNativeWrapper]


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