You can also find this website through Firefox by clicking Tools, then Extensions, and then clicking the “Get More Extensions” link. Once accepted your new Firefox extension will be available along with other developers’ extensions at. Please note that it will take several days for your extension to be approved by Mozilla, this limits how much ‘junk’ can be posted to the website.

Once you are logged in you will have the opportunity to upload your new extension. You will need to check your email to complete the registration process (the email was sent immediately for us). Click “Join Mozilla Update!” in the bottom right hand corner to register. You will need to register with Mozilla to be able to use this service. Most importantly, users will be able to download and install your extension through the built-in extension retrieval system. The “Developer Control Panel” allows you to add/remove new versions of your extension, add/remove screenshots, update the compatibility information, and more. The best way to distribute your new Firefox extension is through Mozilla’s developer website. Verifying your extension requires a lot of work that is beyond this tutorial (it is quite expensive, too). This is to ensure you understand there could be bad code within the file. Your Firefox extension will be unverified and thus will make you wait a few seconds before you can install it. Once you let go of the file, Firefox should recognize it as an extension and ask you if you would like to install it. To test your package you can simply drag the. xpi file does not matter just pick something that makes sense to you. Note that you should not zip up the MyExt folder itself, instead zip of the files and folders that are inside it.

Open up your MyExt folder and create a zip file containing all of the files and folders.Simply follow these two steps to package your extension: After all you have gone through, this will be quite easy! This page is preserved for historical purposes.Ĭongratulations! If you are to this step you must have something working! In order for you to share your extensions with others you will first need to package the extension. It was written by nine students at Georgia Tech in 2005, for Firefox 1.5, which is highly out of date.

This tutorial is a legacy tutorial that is no longer maintained, nor supportedīy Rietta Inc.

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