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Firefox is an awesome web browser, and there are a ton of great extensions for it out there as well. I'm really interested in creating my own extensions, and it doesn't sound too hard (if you have even a little bit of programming experience), but there is hardly any documentation out there on creating firefox extensions.

Here is a link to a site that has a tutorial on creating your own extension:

http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/

I've searched a lot for a better site, but can't find one, unfortunately.

I just don't think the site is the best resource for creating extensions, but I'm not finding anything better. In addition, I use firefox version 1.5.0.1, and the example he gives on that site isn't compatible with this version of firefox! *sigh*

I've tried creating my own extensions, but all the rdf and xul files are very tricky, and I have to believe there is better documentation out there.

With that, does anyone have good tutorials on Firefox extensions, or know where I can find them?

Any help would be appreciated!

http://www.bengoodger.com/software/mb/e ... howto.html
http://www.rietta.com/~frank/firefox/ (made for 1.5 specifically)

~c

Good links - thanks so much. The "bengoodger" link helps out a lot on the rdf files.

One of your links brought me to this extension:
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/extensiondev.xpi
It's an extension that creates a GUI for creating your own extensions! I haven't tried it out, but it may be promising.

I also found this site:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions
I always wondered why firefox didn't have this type of page, but I guess since it is mozilla, that explains things - I hadn't thought to look in the mozilla site.

Thanks again - hope this helps people too!