Developing Firefox Extensions with GNU/Linux

QT writes "Ars Technica has a lengthy but useful introduction to developing Firefox extensions with GNU/Linux. This guide comes hot on the heels of the RC for Beta 1 of Firefox. The article is a little more thorough than necessary, but I can't complain about anything that spurs Firefox development." From the article: "What can you do with a Firefox Extension? Firefox extensions can modify the Firefox user interface. This includes adding buttons to tool bars and menus; changing fonts, colors, and icons; capturing events in the client interface like page loads and clicks; and modifying web pages after the browser loads them and before the user sees them. All of this functionality comes with the aspect-oriented facility of overlays. Extensions also have as much access to the file system as the user running Firefox. Extensions can add protocol handlers, hooking actions to URLs like icq://, aim://, or stantz://. Extensions have UniversalXPConnect privileges, allowing them to harness any XPCOM component. Firefox comes with a rich library of XPCOM components that permit your extension to drive very low-level functionality like sockets from Javascript. You can also augment the XPCOM library with Firefox extensions by adding Javascript, linkable libraries, or XPIDL."

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Re:HORRIBLE idea..(and my inability to close tags)

[Noksagt]

Yeah--my overzealousness to point out how bad an idea this was made me miss a BLOCKQUOTE tag.

I would really like is the ability to click on one or a group of e-mail and send back to the sender (or whatever e-mail address the lying spammer has used for the reply address)

This is a bad idea because, as you noted, most spam spoofs FROM: and/or REPLY TO:

Instead of bouncing spam, you just harrass & send spam to some poor guy who had his email address borrowed by some spam bot. Congratulations! You just became as bad as the spammers.