Fastest way to debug Firefox addons during development

Question

Debugging a Firefox addon is a slow process: (1) edit source code in a JS editor (2) package into XPI using a build script (3) drag into Firefox to install (4) restart Firef

Answer 1

To make development of the add-on faster, an important goal is to eliminate restart of FF to test every code change. Three options that I can think of:

• Use the FF nightly 31 build, based on the other answers in this post.

• Use the following add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autoinstaller/

• Build it in your code with a restartless add-on. Refer to the answer in this post firefox restartless bootstrap extension script not reloading

I have used the last two options and it works greatly for me.