building extensions for FF3

and I'm missing one of my favourite tools

[httpwebwitch]

It is a sad day. The add-on I built last year to support one of my web projects is not working in FF3.

For previous versions of FF, I had an extension called the "Extension Builder Extension", which reloads all the chrome including extensions in development. It was GREAT - I didn't have to close and reopen Firefox every time I made a change to the XUL.

Has Mozilla offered a replacement for FF3?

I will also need to figure out, once and for all, this whole "automatic update" thing. If anyone could explain it to me in non-Mozilla English, please do!

[poppyrich]

You're not the only one out of luck at the moment. My favorite tool is DOM Inspector - with FF2 it was built in, you just had to check off that you wanted it on install.

It's missing in action in FF3. What's going on? Am I missing something? Does anybody know?

Makes me less sheepish about starting the thread:
"Was Firefox 3 truly ready for release? "

Dom Inspector is really part of the product, not an add-on.

[encyclo]

DOM Inspector

The DOM Inspector is no longer included in the base/custom install, but it is available as an extension for Firefox 3:

[addons.mozilla.org...]

[Demaestro]

poppyrich...

Search add-ons for FireBug.. it has a way more comprehensive DOM the FF2 did, plus other "can't live without" debugging tools.

If you have any questions about using it let me know...

The best is being able to execute javascript from a command line in live webpages.

[poppyrich]

Will go, will look, will get.

thanks all.

[encyclo]

Going back to the original question, is "Extension Developer" what you're looking for?

[addons.mozilla.org...]

It's updated for Firefox 3.

[httpwebwitch]

re: adon #7434, It's not the one I'm used to, but I'll definitely try it out!