Since the dawn of Firefox debugging add-ons has been a task fraught with peril. The old JavaScript Debugger existed but hasn’t received the care and attention it needed. Most of us resorted to logging with dump statements to try to … Continue reading
The next beta of Firefox 4 will include a change to how Firefox installs and uses extensions. Previously the files from the extension’s XPI would be extracted into their own directory in the filesystem and read from there, now the … Continue reading
Are you an extension or application developer? Have you written any XPCOM components, JS, binary or otherwise? If not you can probably ignore the rest of this post, unless you are interested anyway. If you do then you might be … Continue reading
Reposted from my blog in order to spread the word: If you are an extension developer and include executable files in your XPI package (binary or shell scripts) then you may be seeing problems in Firefox 3.6. Back between Firefox … Continue reading
