Directory of Add-on Development Resources

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This category contains sites with tools and information about the development of Add-ons for Gecko based applications, such as SeaMonkey, Flock, Sunbird, Thunderbird, Firefox and XULRunner Applications.

Subcategories

• Developers
• Extensions
• JavaScript
• OpenSearch
• XPCOM
• XUL

Resources in This Category

• All Interfaces

  http://www.oxymoronical.com/experiments/apidocs/
  List of interfaces with filtering tools, stripped code and highlighted comments.

• BabelZilla

  http://www.babelzilla.org/
  International community of translators for Mozilla applications. Includes a system to allow online translations, a list of common extensions terms and tutorials for extension localization in many languages.

• Extension Wizard

  http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensionwiz/
  Generates a zip file with an extension skeleton for Firefox and Thunderbird.

• Firefox Toolbar Tutorial

  http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/toolbar-tutorial/
  Overview about the tools required to create an extension and details on how toolbars are created.

• How to hack extensions to make them compatible with SeaMonkey

  http://users.skynet.be/fa258499/hackexttutorial.html
  Provides a template install script and describe possibles problems when porting extensions.

• Mozdev

  http://www.mozdev.org/
  Provides free project hosting and development tools for extensions. Includes bug tracking, CVS repositories, mailing lists, newsgroups and download mirrors.

• Mozilla Add-ons Blog

  https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/
  News and post for add-on developers.

• Mozilla Developer Center

  http://developer.mozilla.org/
  Organized by topics provides documentation about extensions, themes, applications, frameworks and technologies.

• Mozilla Extension Generator

  http://einaregilsson.com/mozilla-extension-generator/
  Python script to write extensions structures.

• MozillaZine Forums : Extensions and Themes

  http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=53
  Discussion board about releases and development of extensions and themes.

• Robert's talk - How to develop a Firefox extension

  http://robertnyman.com/2009/01/24/how-to-develop-a-firefox-extension/
  Covers some of the required steps to start a Mozilla extension.

• So You Want To Sign Your XPI Package?

  https://www.mozdevgroup.com/docs/pete/Signing-an-XPI.html
  Step by step explanation on how to sign an XPI package in Unix type systems.

• Software is Hard

  http://www.softwareishard.com/blog/
  Tutorials and comments about developing and extending Firebug.

• Spket IDE

  http://www.spket.com/
  IDE for JavaScript and XML development. Offers many features to increase the productivity for Mozilla Extensions developers.

• Think Global, Make Locales!

  http://blog.babelzilla.org/
  Babelzilla blog, with tutorials and news about the Mozilla community and localizations.

• XPISigner

  http://code.google.com/p/xpisigner/
  Command-line utility to simplify the process of signing extensions.

Related Categories

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