Replicating Google Chrome Browser Actions popup Effect in a Firefox Extension

Question

Hi,

Chrome Browser Actions provide a really nice popup effect by default.

• Hovering over the toolbar icon provides a neat hover effect.

• Clicking the toolbar icon shows a nice animation that opens the popup html file.

• The popup is aligned with the button that is pressed.

• Clicking the toolbar icon again fades out the popup.

Any thoughts on how to approximate this effect with Firefox extensions? Has anybody successfully achieved something similar to this effect?

Thanks.

Answer 1

In case anybody is researching this and trying to find out the answer, ultimately using a panel within the toolbarpalette in the browser.xul file worked well for me.