Dev : Extensions : Example Code
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Contents
XUL
- Adding items to menus with overlays (talks about browser's context menu too)
- Dialogs in Mozilla
Javascript
Commonly used techniques
- XulPlanet has an article on preferences
- Printing debug information to JavaScript Console
XPCOM
- File IO
- Using observers for cross-window notifications
- Run other applications
- displaying a file picker (Open, Save, Select Directory dialogs)
- Using progress listeners
- Executing your code each time a page loads
- Enumerating tabbrowser tabs
- Opening a new browser window
Other
Techniques
- Differential Inheritance in JavaScript using __proto__