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on 2006-07-31 by ziller

This article describes steps needed to get started with extensions development.

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Two new major extension developers' features introduced in Firefox 1.5 are the greatly simplified chrome registration scheme and reworked Extension Manager. It is now even easier to start writing extensions than it was before.

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Getting started with extension development

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Setting up your environment

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In particular, you must set the javascript.options.showInConsole pref to true.

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What this Extension Does

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For further instructions, see Setting up extension development environment. Do read that page, it will save you many hours when developing and debugging your extension. In particular, you must set the javascript.options.showInConsole pref to true.

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Planning your extension

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Creating stub extension files

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UI ("chrome")

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behavior by providing overlays to already existent windows/documents.

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f you didn't know that, we advise you to read XUL Structure chapter from XULPlanet's XUL Tutorial and Configurable Chrome document).

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overlay.dtd

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DTD files used for localization purposes consist of entity declarations like the one below:

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Registering your extension in the Extension Manager

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