I want to write a Firefox extension that acts exactly like the built-in RSS feed scanner (as an exercise). It should do the following:
- On each new page / tab load, it should scan the content of the page for RSS feeds
- If there are RSS feeds in the page, it should put a button in the location bar that the user can click
- On clicking the button, a speech bubble should appear under the button (the way a speech bubble appears under the bookmarks star when you click on it), with information on the feeds and buttons to subscribe to them
So my main questions are:
- What is the process to run specific content scripts for specific pages?
- What is the process to use the results of those scripts to update the speech bubble for each location bar button for each tab?
Basically, I'm trying to figure out how to do in Firefox what Page Actions are in Google Chrome.
To clarify, I want to replicate this functionality in Firefox: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/pageAction.html
Please help! :)