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Articles in this category demonstrate the code to do certain things in Mozilla-based products (at this moment, mostly for use in extensions).

Development documentation is in process of being moved to Mozilla Development Center (MDC). You can find more documentation there.

XUL

• Creating toolbar buttons (moved to Devmo)
• Adding items to menus using overlays (talks about browser's context menu too)
• Creating a Firefox sidebar
• Creating dialog windows with XUL
• Dynamically modifying XUL-based user interface. Talks about using DOM API to add, move, and delete widgets from UI at runtime.

JavaScript

Commonly used techniques

• preferences. For the basics, see also the article on XulPlanet.
• How to log debug information to JavaScript Console.
• Calling Java from Javascript

XPCOM

• Performing file IO
• Using observers for cross-window notifications
• Running applications
• Using nsIFilePicker] (Open, Save, Select Directory dialogs)
• nsIWindowMediator - enumerating existing windows.
• nsIPromptService (privileged version of alert(), confirm(), prompt() plus their extended versions): some examples, forum thread.
• Working with protocols:
  • Dev : Extending the Chrome Protocol
  • Adding a New Protocol to Mozilla by Doron Rosenberg.
  • Using nsIURIContentListener to listen for specific MIME types, e.g., application/x-bittorrent
• Implementing XPCOM components in JavaScript

<tabbrowser> related

• Using progress listeners
• Executing your code each time a page loads
• Enumerating tabbrowser tabs
• Reusing tabs for the same URL
• detecting tab selection, addition, removal
• Open_page_using_tab_settings

XML Technologies in Mozilla

Moved here (MDC)

Other

• Working with windows in chrome code article on Devmo. Discusses various development tasks involving working with windows.
• Opening a new browser window
• Inserting text at cursor
• Creating a XUL mailto: link
• Automatically deleting files when the user uninstalls your extension
• Adding Drag and Drop to Statusbarpanel
• Creating sidebar extension
• Sorting Trees
• Encoding strings
• Getting Current URL
• Using events to pass messages from content to chrome
• Using the scrollwheel

Techniques

• Differential inheritance in JavaScript using __proto__
• Increasing security with XPCNativeWrapper

The alphabetical list of all articles and subcategories in this category follows.

Articles in category "Example code"