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In my journey to write a firefox extension for bugile i found a nice simple howto to write a ‘hello world’ extension in a simple few steps xml code.

One of the best things about Firefox and Thunderbird is that they have a well defined extension mechanism. If there’s some feature you feel is completely missing, you can go ahead and add it. It’s relatively easy to do â€” you don’t have to fiddle about with a C compiler because extensions are mostly written in a combination of XML and ECMAScript.

I’ve recently been getting up to speed with the mechanics of writing an extension for Firefox and Thunderbird. I thought it might be a good idea to share what I’m learning in my blog. Hopefully the information might be useful to others trying to learn how to write Mozilla extensions. In this blog, I’ll take a look at installing a really simple extension into Firefox that adds a “Hello World” menu item to the Tools menu.

Here is a simple code:





urn:mozilla:package:helloworld”
chrome:displayName=”Hello World”
chrome:author=”Brian Duff”
chrome:authorURL=”http://modev.dubh.org/helloworld”
chrome:name=”helloworld”
chrome:extension=”true”
chrome:description=”A simple demonstration firefox extension.“>







chrome://helloworld/content/helloworld-Overlay.xul