OT: FireFox extensions

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Re: OT: FireFox extensions by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 30, 2007 at 17:24 UTC
Firefox is extended with Javascript and XUL (an XML widget declaration language). If you'd STFW you can very easily find things such as this tutorial at developer.mozilla.org. As for using Perl, I'm pretty sure you can't directly; I'm also marginally sure that you can't directly call out to an external binary (analogous to opening a pipe or calling system) even from Javascript in an extension. You could however probably interact with Perl running on a remote webserver, but I don't think that's what you're asking for.	[reply]
Re: OT: FireFox extensions by gloryhack (Deacon) on Mar 30, 2007 at 17:22 UTC
See http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Extensions.	[reply]
Re: OT: FireFox extensions by valdez (Monsignor) on Mar 30, 2007 at 21:10 UTC
I think XUL::Node has an interesting approach: XUL-Node is a rich user interface framework for server-based Perl applications. It includes a server, a UI framework, and a Javascript XUL client for the Firefox web browser. Perl applications run inside a POE server, and are displayed in a remote web browser. HTH, Valerio	[reply]
Re: OT: FireFox extensions by bsdz (Friar) on Apr 02, 2007 at 07:23 UTC
I have mused on this several times in the past and finally concluded it is not that easy at all. My best idea was to use PyXPCOM in conjunction with pyperl. A project called PlXPCOM used to provide a Perl/XPCOM bridge but this does not appear to be under development.	[reply]