just sharing dude. Firefox plugins aren't hard when you know what you're doing or when you use a higher level API like Jetpack and/or Greasemonkey and get your

just sharing dude. Firefox plugins aren't hard when you know what you're doing or when you use a higher level API like Jetpack and/or Greasemonkey and get your users to install them. But they are still a pain to setup when you have to get so many different files structured perfectly (or the plugin will silently fail). And sometimes you can't ask users to install third party software and higher-level APIs suffer from limitations like an inability to handle file encodings properly. This is intended for people who would otherwise be dealing with this: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_extension_development http://kb.mozillazine.org/Getting_started_with_extension_dev... It's a package that compiles with a big start here arrow and intelligent defaults for toggle-on behavior and cross-tabbed browsing. As for the time savings? It reduced my own development time for a recent plugin to something on the order of 20 minutes. I'm sharing because it might be useful to someone else, not because I'm building a higher level API for Firefox. I don't have the time or inclination for that. :)