FUEL (Firefox User Extension Library) is a JavaScript Library designed to help developers build extensions using terminology and interfaces that are familiar to them.
Application) to reduce need for <script>getService)nsIObserverService) are somewhat orthognal to DOM events (addEventListener)
// global prefs
Application.prefs.get("my.pref", default);
Application.prefs.set("my.pref","foo");
// extension-level prefs uses the extension id as a branch
extension.prefs.set("autosave", true);
// global prefs
Application.storage.get("name", default);
Application.storage.set("name","foo");
// extension-level prefs uses the extension id as a branch
extension.storage.set("autosave", true);
Application.events.addListener("ready", function() { /* display message */ } );
Application.events.addListener("quit", function() { /* save data */ } );
Application.storage.events.addListener("change", function() { } );
Application.prefs.events.addListener("change", function() { } );
extension.events.addListener("uninstall", function() { /* cleanup prefs */ } );
Application.bookmarks.all.forEach( function(b) {
// look at each bookmark
});
Application.bookmarks.events("add", function() { /* new bookmark added */ } );
Application.bookmarks.events("remove", function() { /* bookmark removed */ } );
Application.bookmarks.events("change", function() { /* bookmark changed */ } );
Application.browsers.forEach( fucntion(b) {
// look at each open browser window (not tab)
});
Application.activeBrowser.tabs.forEach( function(t) {
// look at each open tab in the active browser window
});
// opens a new tab in the browser window
var tab = browser.open("http://mozilla.org");
// make sure the new tab is visible in the browser window
tab.focus();
Modern UI designs utilize animations and visual ques