Hello, add-on developers!
In our recent developer survey, one of the largest pain points identified by respondents was a lack of documentation and resources for extension developers. A contributing factor to this problem … Read more
Articles tagged with “documentation”
Video Tutorial – Extensions Bootcamp: Zero to “Hello World” in 45 Minutes
Mozilla’s Myk Melez created a great video introduction to add-on development for Mozilla’s Design Challenge Spring 09. If you’ve be looking for a video walk-through, Myk just served it up … Read more
Firefox Add-ons Developer Guide (beta release) – Calling all Add-on Developers!
Summary: The Firefox Add-ons Developer Guide is now released in beta. We are now searching for contributors, if you want to help, please see instructions below. Firefox Add-ons Developer Guide … Read more
How to develop a Firefox extension
Update: Firefox has used the WebExtensions API as its extension API since 2017. We encourage you to visit Extension Workshop to learn more about browser extensions and how you can … Read more
Firefox Extensions: Global Namespace Pollution
Reposted with permission from Jan Odvarko (AKA Honza): I have been recently asked by couple of developers how to properly design architecture of a Firefox extension. The first thing that … Read more