mozilla-plugin

Building and installing Mozilla signtool on Windows 7

Can anyone either point me to (or provide here) a clear, step-by-step approach that will get Mozilla's signtool (distinct from the Windows program of the same name) installed and working in a Windows environment (specifically, Windows 7)? It appears to be the best tool available to build a XPI file to package up a compiled Firefox exten...

What is a MIME type?

Hi Guys; I have been reading about how to build plug-ins and this "MIME type" keeps getting discussed in it, i have tried to look into and know that its Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) but no suitable explanation of how it relates to browser plug-ins as in what i need to know about it for building plug-ins is provided, plea...

Mozilla addon development - Tab focus granting event

Hi, I need to capture tab focus granting event in Mozilla Browser. is there any type of listener implement for this event? Thanks, Chandnaa ...

Calling a dll function from JS XPCOM

Hi every one. I wanted to know if the XPCOM JS can call an external dll function ? I have a dll that exposes certain functions. I want my XPCOM JS function to be able to call the dll function. Is it possible ? ...

how to uninstall mozilla extension from command line?

HI, i have installed mozilla extension by double clicking abc.xpi file. Now I want to know where those files are copied, so that i can delete them ? OR anyother way to unistall extension except by going to AddOn & then uninstalling it manually. I want to uninstall it programatically...Any pointers would be helpful. ...

How to convert an unicode JavaScript string into a byte array using Mozilla services?

I have a service writing remote files, but it requires a byte array as input. Rest of the interface provides only JavaScript unicode strings. No way to write them then. I found something like this in MDC: var converter = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/intl/scriptableunicodeconverter"] .createInstance(Components.interf...