It is a euphemism for the graphical framework and elements surrounding the content, and thus means different things depending on the context. In the context of a web browser it is the navigation, toolbar etc. In the context of a website it is navigation, ad-space and other fixed aspects of the design. The term “user … Read more
If you are on windows (to install cygwin it looks like you do), you can use the windows built in tool: Select the contents of the extension (remember, don’t select the outside folder). Right Click Send to Compressed (zipped) folder Then just replace the .zip for .xpi in the filename Looks like your problem is … Read more
EDIT: This post was created prior to the implementation of the @run-at key in Greasemonkey – as noted by Blaise, from Greasemonkey 0.9.8 you may now have the script executed as soon as the page begins to load. @run-at document-start is described in the wiki as follows: Start is new as of version 0.9.8. The … Read more
General rule of thumb: Plugins When you’re talking about a web browser, a plugin talks about a NPAPI or similar plugin, which is specific to the page. IE doesn’t support “plugins” per se, but they have activex controls which can fill a similar function, though there are also BHO (Browser Helper Object) ActiveX controls which … Read more
Preferences → Privacy → remove individual cookies They are grouped by domain, and you can eliminate all cookies from selected domain with one click. Update: Option → Privacy → remove individual cookies
The .xpi file must use only “deflate” compression or uncompressed The zip implementation within Firefox only supports uncompressed files or files compressed with the “Deflate” algorithm. You will need to create the .zip archive using the compression method “Deflate” instead of the “LZMA” which you are currently using. How to do so will depend on … Read more
Since Chrome introduced externally_connectable, this is quite easy to do in Chrome. First, specify the allowed domain in your manifest.json file: “externally_connectable”: { “matches”: [“*://*.example.com/*”] } Use chrome.runtime.sendMessage to send a message from the page: chrome.runtime.sendMessage(editorExtensionId, {openUrlInEditor: url}, function(response) { // … }); Finally, listen in your background page with chrome.runtime.onMessageExternal: chrome.runtime.onMessageExternal.addListener( function(request, sender, sendResponse) … Read more
This is called destructuring assignment. It is a feature of JavaScript 1.7, where in this context “JavaScript” refers to Mozilla’s specific extensions to the ECMAScript standard. It is slated for inclusion in the next version of JavaScript. The equivalent ECMAScript 5 code would be var __temp = require(‘chrome’); var Cc = __temp.Cc; var Ci = … Read more
In Firebug’s HTML tab, right-click the root node and select “copy HTML”. Then paste to a text editor. Without Firefox Add-Ons, you could use a bookmarklet like this: javascript: var win = window.open(); win.document.write(‘<html><head><title>Generated HTML of ‘ + location.href + ‘</title></head><pre>’ + document.documentElement.innerHTML.replace(/&/g, ‘&’).replace(/</g, ‘<’) + ‘</pre></html>’); win.document.close(); void 0;
It is possible though, depending on the use case, it might also of limited interest. Firefox ships with a tiny http server, just the bare bones. It is included for test purposes but this is not a reason to overlook it. Lets follow the quickstart guide for running a Drive app in Javascript The tricky … Read more