Creating Firefox extensions
Everyone has a good idea at one time or another to implement a new feature in a web browser. Well, with the goodness that is Mozilla Firefox, now you can do just that. You need to have a vague understanding of XUL and Javascript, but you certainly don’t need to be a master of either. When I started, I knew nothing about either one, really. I had seen some bookmarklets here and there, and tried to figure out just how they worked. Well, that’s how I made my first extension, BugMeNot.
I found bugmenot.com by chance one day, and it certainly made browsing web sites that required registration much easier. They even had a bookmarklet that would work “on the fly”, more or less. I liked using it, but I’d prefer to have it within easier reach, say, a right click menu that I could tap at any time. Unfortunately, I had no idea how to do this, so I scoured ways of adding items to a right-click menu.
