xul

I am working on a Firefox add-on that will allow users (all of whom are part of a specific group; this add-on is very limited in audience scope) to see the status of their authentication cookie from the status bar. We all have to authenticate to access work-related sites, but we get no warning when the cookie expires, so this causes annoying and sometimes drastic interrupts in work flow. Eventually, this add on will allow us to submit our credentials from the status bar without having to go to do any reloads or redirects, but for now, I just want to see it show the status. I have been looking

I have tried to mess with xulrunner before, and now I'm trying once again :) The "real" tutorial ( Getting started with XULRunner - MDN ) does, in fact, show that one is supposed to have application.ini and other files ( possibly zipped as .xpi, which then requires --install-app ... ), and then the call should be like: xulrunner `pwd`/application.ini ... however, I'd like an easier way to start up - and hence, my hope for single-file XUL application approach :) ( A good note here is that one also cannot use the zipped .xpi as an argument to xulrunner , see XULRunner question - DonationCoder

I am trying to develop a Firefox extension. The following code: var divList = document.getElementsByTagName("div") ; Components.utils.reportError("num of divs = " + divList.length) ; Always says:- num of divs = 0. I don't understand what is the mistake that I am making in this simple piece of code. When I replace "div" with "*" , I always get a value around 1100 on any webpage. icyrock.com Not sure what is the difference in the extension context, but it might have to do with namespaces - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Element/getElementsByTagName . What is the tag of the

I'm trying to use js-ctypes in Firefox to receive USB media/drive notifications, but I'm having a few issues and I can't tell if it's because I'm very inexperienced at Win32 API or awful at js-ctypes (or both!) I've started by adapting an example I found on Alexandre Poirot's blog: Blog Entry Full JS Source That example uses js-ctypes to create a "message-only" window, and then interacts with the shell service for the purpose of communicating with the Windows notification tray. It seems simple enough, so after some research on the merits of RegisterDeviceNotification vs SHChangeNotifyRegister

I've developed a firefox extension which contains a small dialog defined by this XUL script: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/" type="text/css"?> <prefwindow id="firenowPreferences" xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul" title="Fire.Now" ondialogaccept='onSave();' onload="checkFields();"> <script type="application/x-javascript">function onSave(){ alert('blablabla');}</script> <prefpane id="pane1"> <grid> <rows> <row align="center"><label control="username">Username</label><textbox id="username"/></row> <row align=

I am writing a Firefox addon for Firefox 4 which allows you to create bootstraped addons (addons that do not require a restart of the browser), however, they do not allow you to use XUL to create UI elements. What is an easy way to create UI elements in places like the tools menu (with JavaScript), and how do I make my addon open a new window to interface with the browser? It's not easy right now. You need to keep track of browser windows as they open and close and add your UI to each window manually via DOM APIs See how it's implemented in the Addon (formerly Jetpack) SDK: https://github.com

Is it possible to create Firewox extension that will not shown in Extensions List? And so cannot be deinstalled manually? See this mozillazine entry and this forum entry . These extensions are somehow installed via the registry and supposed to be malicious - so there's no use for this except if you want to be on some malware blacklist. For private use or administration use like MSalters suggested in his comment, "hidden" (for some users) extensions could be useful, but this should be implemented by Mozilla first. To Hide an extensions/addons in the list of extension about:addons simply follow

I am writing an addon which needs to do capture the no of times someone has highlighted any text on a webpage. Is there any way I can listen to this event? Thanks, Kapil There is not a particular event for this. But you can listen to the mouseup event and check whether the selection returned by window.getSelection() is not empty and/or whether it differs from the previous selection. You could add a selection listener. The Source window (viewSource.js) does this so that it can keep the row and column number up-to-date. 来源： https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4619298/firefox-addon-how-to-listen