Developing Firefox Extensions/Add-Ons for Web Sites

More and more companies and individuals are harnessing the popularity and power of Firefox’s extendability. As Mozilla/Firefox matures and grows so goes the extendability. Some, such as eBay, are extending their web presences into Firefox (Firefox Companion for eBay) to constantly capture your attention while others, namely BlueOrganizer and StumbleUpon, are building businesses from within the browser.

Once set up, and with fairly basic HTML and JavaScript skills, one can extend Firefox into their product’s vehicle. This session will walk you through the steps of setting up a development environment, developing a simple “Hello World” add-on, and how to deploy it to the Firefox world at large. It will touch on best practices, invaluable tools, and some of the pitfalls associated with developing within Firefox/Mozilla’s new and ever-changing framework.