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Firefox plugins and XUL

Writing XUL is a giant pain in the ass and the documentation is lacking any examples.
Here is a good resource

https://forums.mozilla.org/addons/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=384

Excerpt from that page

There is a list of some resources here
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/develo … ng-started

This tutorial is quite a helpful introduction
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefo … Extensions

I generally just use MDC (Mozilla Developer Center) for reference (just keep an eye on what version of Firefox/Gecko the documentation applies to)
https://developer.mozilla.org/En

The XUL periodic table is a helpful resource for basic XUL element layout
http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul

W3Schools is a useful basic reference for DOM and Javascript
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/default.asp

There is a list of the Mozilla interfaces here
http://www.oxymoronical.com/experiments/apidocs/

The DOM inspector is a “must have”
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6622

Anyway that’s just a few that you might find useful

HTH

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