Right now there is no support in the Firefox Extension Manager for running a script when the extension is uninstalled. Such script might be useful if your extension needs to perform some clean up, like removing some temporary files or registry entries. I’ve managed to find a work around for this: Install an unload event […]
Update: Bug 253742 is very close to being fixed, so the workarounds in this post will no longer be needed. Thanks to the Mozilla developers for making the platform even better. Every Firefox extension consists of several parts. It often has a UI part, typically written in XUL and some scripts typically written in Javascript. […]
Update: This issue (bug 252543) has been solved in Mozilla, so the workaround is no longer needed. I have written a Firefox extension which uses an XPCOM component. When the extension is installed and the user will try to install a newer version of the extension, the installation fails. The reason for the failure is […]
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