plugin

A wild idea: using Firefox plugins

• 6 November 2007
• Robb Shecter

Something to think about:  Possibly doing some development as a Firefox plugin.
Over the weekend, I started a personal project writing a Firefox plugin.  It’s not very hard to write these, especially something that basically does:

• Check if the currently loaded page matches some keyword,
• Walk the HTML DOM, and make changes or insert CSS.

I think this has a lot of potential for cases where (1) there’s legacy code that’s notoriously hard to manage, and (2) internal users who can be advised to use the plugin for more functionality.

So for example, imagine that there are some things we’d want to fix with Trillium or the Stationery System, but are too hard or risky to do because of the source code.  The functionality could be done in a plugin.

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• Trillium

• firefox, legacy code, plugin

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