Comments on: Shortest Tutorial for Firefox Extension/Toolbar Development!

By: Dilshad

Dilshad — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:27:09 +0000

i’ve tried makin the extension
using the above code itself.
but its not workin.

please can u help me ……..

By: Shiva

Shiva — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:23:39 +0000

Hi, I followed all the steps you provided when installing the add on, i am getting below error message.

Firefox could not install the file at

file:///D:/tools/googbar.xpi

because: Install script not found
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By: wxianfeng

wxianfeng — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 03:02:17 +0000

source cant download….

By: Abhay

Abhay — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:30:58 +0000

Very nice and concise. It’s first step for naive like me.
Thanks a lot.

By: shashank

shashank — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:36:17 +0000

hii rahul
this is really very good and usefull tutorial
iam working on the same concept but a bit diffrent could u please help me out buddy
” i would like to have a bar in such a way that it should look like a form with username,passsword and a submit button if we enter a valid data in to that feilds and when we click on submit it has to navigate to a website
this can be possible?
if yes how?”
i would be very thankfull to u rahul if u help me out in finding the solution to this

By: shashan k

shashan k — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:29:29 +0000

hiii could u please help me out that i would like to have a bar in such a way that it should look like a form with usernsme,passsword and a submit button if we enter in to that feilds and click on that button if the data is valied then it has to open a website…..jus help me out mates

By: Sravan

Sravan — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:31:28 +0000

Hi Rahul,

Working for me. A great tutorial I can say, and thanks a lot for your efforts.

Sravan

By: Venugopal

Venugopal — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:28:32 +0000

@Rico and @Adi,
I had the same issue and problem we need replace “overlay.xul” with our XUL file name(googbar.xul), in the chrome.manifest file.

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By: Ish

Ish — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:36:13 +0000

I have a bat file which needs to be called from javascript in firefox extension ..

I have bat file present in content/chrome directory.. I tried to call bat file like this ..

var exe =

Components.classes['@mozilla.org/file/local;1']
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
exe.initWithPath(“chrome://sample/content/test.bat”);
exe.launch();

But it’s not working ..