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    Package Your Firefox Extension into an XPI

    Yesterday I detailed the file/folder structure of a Firefox extension. Once you have your extension ready for testing, you need to package everything together into an XPI file. Luckily there's a quick and easy way to do so. chrome.manifest Review Remember that the XPI build...

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    Firefox Extension Template

    Creating a Firefox extension can be difficult if you don't know the files involved and how to structure your extension folder. Fear not -- I have created a very basic Firefox extension template file/folder structure for you to get your first plugin going. File & Folder...

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    Adding the XPI MIME Type for Firefox Extension Installs

    Yesterday I posted version 0.1 of the David Walsh Blog Toolbar for Firefox. Unfortunately that led to an awkward conversation with my .htaccess file. .htaccess: I have no idea what to do with this. me: I want the toolbar to install when they request this file. .htaccess...

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    Making IE8 Emulate IE7

    As you probably know, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 was "officially" released yesterday. If you were caught off guard by this and haven't had time to test your sites in IE8, don't lose sleep; you can make IE8 render pages like IE7 using a simple...

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    Add Your Website to Firefox’s Search Bar Using OpenSearch XML

    The ability to search right from your browser's address toolbar is a Godsend. No more extra Google or Yahoo page loads -- simply open a new tab and roll off your search terms. Of course Firefox comes with Google, Yahoo, and other search engines...

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    First Impressions of Google Chrome

    Google Chrome was released last week and got as much attention as you would expect it would. A Google browser was inevitable. I'd like to share a few scattered thoughts on Google's browser effort and gain a little feedback from you. I'll let...

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    Detecting Google Chrome Using JavaScript

    As we all know, Google's Chrome browser hit the web yesterday. Whether you wanted to or not, you definitely downloaded Google's effort to see what ingenuity they put into their browser. It's clean, fast, and more stable than Firefox has been for me lately.

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    Logging Information to the Firebug JavaScript Console

    Firebug is the ultimate Web Developer debugging tool. Firebug gives you control over the page's XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX requests, and more. It's important not to simply take in what Firebug tells you though -- you can log information to your Firebug...

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    Firefox 3’s Internal Rendering CSS

    I was poking around Firefox's file and folder structure today. I've been doing research on how each browser vendor chooses to render CSS and, more specifically, what their default CSS stylesheet looks like. After a few minutes, I found a html.css file in the...

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    My Firefox Plugins

    I know that everyone and their brother creates this post but on the rare occasion that I do read a person's list, I see a good amount of the plugins that I rely on NOT in their list. Here are the plugins that I use...