Firefox

Hacks 84-90 This chapter describes how to create and deploy Firefox enhancements properly. Enhancements include skins, themes, extensions, and applications. This chapter covers the creation of JAR and XPI files, their contents, and the web site...

Chapter 7 introduced the key ideas of chrome, chrome: URLs, JAR files, and packages [Hack #75] . Those concepts also apply to more formal chrome enhancement projects. Such projects also require the concepts of extensions, themes, locales, XPIs, a...

The XML dialect called RDF is not exactly a simple system to use, and Firefox relies on RDF files a lot. This hack shows how to use the Chrome Manager tool, an extension that provides a simple breakdown of these complex structures. Together with ...

Here's how to make one. Pieces of software installed on top of Firefox are called extensions, themes, locales, or add-ons. The name extension and those other names are all product bundle names. Extension product bundles, for example, are hand...

In the context of Mozilla, an overlay is a hunk of user-interface (UI) data, most commonly XUL, that is extracted to separate files and pulled in at runtime to parts of the UI that include it. Think of it as a reusable widget or set of widgets....

If you've stepped through the hacks in this chapter in order, or done any serious XUL experimentation, then you're ready to consider releasing that XML as an extension. You have your content, locale, and skin files in place as a package, written ...

This hack describes how to make, bundle, and offer a new theme for installation. Firefox's theming system is not as comprehensive as some generic GUI skin engines. For example, it can't completely reorganize the Firefox user interface as flexibly...

The chrome files supplied with FirefoxXUL, CSS, JavaScript, and otherscan be reused by your extension or chrome application project. If you're familiar with these pieces, you can possibly save yourself a lot of time. At least you'll save yourself...