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Comment on Experiences at MozCamp Latin America by Jusaí Prieto

Jusaí Prieto — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:35:34 +0000

Fue un gusto conocerte Jorge!

Comment on A couple of add-ons that could use forks / developers by Mardeg

Mardeg — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 03:43:54 +0000

I rewrote the extension from
http://cookietoggle.mozdev.org/ (which I don’t think ever made it onto amo)
into a restartless addon at
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-cookies/

Comment on All green! by ozten

ozten — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:26:05 +0000

Congratulations! This is huge and took a lot of work (I can only imagine… )

Comment on All green! by jorge

jorge — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:36:09 +0000

Yeah, I worked on an add-on like that, just to experiment with some APIs back in the day. It was just a way for me to practice, nothing concrete came out of it.

Comment on All green! by Ken Saunders

Ken Saunders — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:01:26 +0000

That is actually really cool. Congrats, and thanks.

I remember ( a long time ago) when they were in the hundreds if not more.

Hey I’m not sure why I thought of this, but didn’t you make a customizable homepage type add-on back around 2005 (or so)?
Perhaps it was something like what the new tab page is turning out to be.

Comment on My experience porting an add-on to Mobile Firefox by Robert Kaiser

Robert Kaiser — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:13:09 +0000

I’ve found out that XUL support in the content area via about: leaves a lot to wish for in Fennec, I hope it improves (or HTML is catching up to do reasonably good UI) as I think we’ll need that for many more add-ons.
My experience there stems from doing mobile support in my “KaiRo Mandelbrot” add-on, which creates an about:mandelbrot page on mobile.

Comment on My experience porting an add-on to Mobile Firefox by fabrice

fabrice — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:39:13 +0000

you can overlay browser.xul here:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/chrome/content/browser.xul#743

There’s no proper API otherwise to add buttons to it – except of course just use the DOM.

Comment on My experience porting an add-on to Mobile Firefox by jorge

jorge — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:51:37 +0000

Interesting. I guess I haven’t played around with Android enough. It’s good to know, although I don’t think I’ve seen any docs about it. Do you have a link on how to overlay it or add buttons to it otherwise?

Comment on My experience porting an add-on to Mobile Firefox by fabrice

fabrice — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:17:42 +0000

The app menu is the one that appears when you hit the “Menu” button on an android device, or Ctrl+M in a desktop build.

Comment on My experience porting an add-on to Mobile Firefox by Ken Saunders

Ken Saunders — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:07:08 +0000

“wrap the Mobile Firefox emulator as an extension you can install in desktop Firefox, so you get the benefits of all development tools”

That would rock.

Thanks for sharing your experience Jorge.