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I wrote my first Firefox extension today. Well, I say wrote. I more or less based it on another one but that’s often the best way to start learning. Basically I wanted a couple of buttons to do a couple of fairly simple things but I couldn’t get Customizable Toolbar Buttons to work (well, I could, but had issues with the buttons not actually wanting to consistently show). So working from Simple EMButtons (because it does something as simple as add a couple of buttons—see the connection) I grabbed a GUID and wrote my own. It wasn’t really that difficult (along with the how to do it docs, some help and some guidance).

There doesn’t really seem much point in releasing it properly though, as it’s a fairly specialised thing (oh, all right. If you have Firebug [and want a button to toggle disabled/enabled], Accessibility Extensions [and want a button to toggle the toolbar] and want a button to change the title of the current tab, then my extension is here [incidently the button icons are simply taken from the Durango Research set from IconBuffet])