Build Your Own Firefox Extension - Free PDF eBook (normally worth $9.95) - Update from Franck
Update: We have added to our article Franck’s interesting feedback about Codeburner. Thank you Franck !
.
Hi friends!
The news about this eBook was quite popular a few month ago. We have seen it on different sites and there were at least six 4Free’ers telling us about it … Gwen, Maria, Zen, Paps, BrianB and Murphy. Thank you Ladies and Gents !
So after a few others free eBooks presented on 4Free, all very interesting and treating so different topics … Here’s another one!
If we remember well the initial announcement was said something like ” For a limited time, we’ll include a BONUS ebook …”.
Well … “the limited time” seems to be more like “permanently” but we can only be happy for that, because this is a very comprehensive book (46 pages ), with detailed and well-explained instructions.
Of course there are the Mozilla tutorials about building extensions for Firefox HERE ( or on building an extension for Thunderbird HERE ) … But the promoted eBook seems to be more structured, detailed and accessible for less-advanced coders.
One of the main reasons for the explosive and continued popularity of Firefox is its framework for custom extensions. What many web developers don’t realise is that they’re so easy to create and implement — anyone with a minimal understanding of JavaScript and XML can build a Firefox extension. After reading Build Your Own Firefox Extension, you’ll be able create simple Firefox extensions with extremely powerful functionality.
With James’s sleek new ebook, you’ll:
* learn about the folder structure and file types that comprise an extension
* develop your user interface using XUL, and style it with CSS
* build functionality and advanced features with JavaScript
* add keyboard shortcuts and internationalization features
* learn how to publish the finished product
* receive a bonus intro to Jetpack
And much, much more!
.
How To Grab This Free eBook 4 Free ?
To celebrate the release of our new FREE extension CodeBurner for Firefox, we’re giving everyone who downloads this tool a FREE copy of Build Your Own Firefox Extension (normally worth $9.95).
Go HERE and click on “Grab Codeburner, And This Book, For Free” ( at the bootom - “How to order this book” )
You’ll download a zipped bundle ( 4,03 Mo ) containing the ebook and the installer for the interesting Codeburner .
CodeBurner is a suite of tools for web developers, that provides reference material for HTML and CSS, integrated with a range of popular development environments. If yo don’t need it … You simply unzipp the file and “extract” the needed PDF file.
That’s it !
Enjoy everyone !
.
Franck’s feedback
Very interesting find if you ask me…
I didn’t take time to read the book yet, but I’m sure it will be a very informative reading as Sitepoint is a worthy editor (although I find their pricing policy to be a curve to buying: it’s 30$ a book - just imagine, 20$ the pdf version… and 40$ the bundle… hum: 20$ for a pdf I’ll surely need to print in order to do the exercises without filling my screen with the pdf reading is quite a price… and the idea of 10 extra bucks to grab the pdf when I already paid for the book… I thought a pricing policy and bundle offers were made to be incentive… but maybe that’s just me… back to the subject !)When I saw this article I thought of speaking about reference.sitepoint.com
This is a very valuable documentation upon htlm, css and javascript : accurate, straightforward and intelligibly written.That brings me to the point. If you’re somehow interested in webdev, the codeburner extension is incredibly interesting. To me, that’s THE find of this article. I’m amazed I never heard about it before!!!
In a nutshell, codeburner allows you to have quick (offline) information about html tags and attributes, css selectors and pseudo-classes…
For each element, you have web browser support and a short example of use.
For more details you have a link with direct access to the proper page on reference.sitepoint.comIt is still interesting to bookmark reference.sitepoint.com as it also offers a javascript guide, which sadly isn’t included in codeburner. But maybe that’s because this javascript section is still incomplete.
I saw they’re currently developing a codeburner dreamweaver extension.
I hope they’ll release one day a codeburner extension for MS Expression web.
.
Related posts:
- Microsoft Office 2010 First Look - Free eBook … Plus Free Office 2010, Visio 2010 AND Microsoft Project 2010 (Beta Versions)
- The Principles Of Successful Freelancing - Another Important Free eBook ( Outdated )
- Backup4all Professional - 200 Free Licenses 4Free Special Promotion. THREE DAYS EXTENSION
- eMailTrackerPro 2008 ( V8 ) - 4 Free ( Update from Franck )
- Firefox - Why do we stick with it ?
- 4Free Easter Special - Coming At Any Moment! 200 Free License Keys For A Known Backup Software. The Pro Version - Latest Build, Of Course !
- KickYouTube Or 3outube - Direct Download And Convert YouTube Files (Update From Franck And Bob)
- Lazarus - A Useful Form Recovery Add-On For Firefox
- Backup4all Professional - 200 Free Licenses For The 4Free Easter 2010 Special Giveaway (UPDATE - 3 Days EXTENSION!) PROMOTION ENDED April 11, 2019.
- Threatsaurus - Free guide to computer and data security threats from Sophos
19 Responses to “Build Your Own Firefox Extension - Free PDF eBook (normally worth $9.95) - Update from Franck”
Leave a Reply
Search the News
-
4Free Projects
-
Ad
-
Ads
Thank you team. This look interesting.
Great find, thanks.
This might come in handy. Thanks guys.
1 point
Thank YOU!
Very interesting like always.
Well done guys!
Great onE!!!
Very Cool. Thanks
1 point
Thank YOU!
hi, firefox’s greatest power is it’s extensions, now after downloading and studying this book I will try to creat some useful extensions. thanks 4free team for this very useful book.
1 point
Hi !
Nice resources. Thanks everyone for the tip !
I have downloaded and started reading it. Like you say the book seems to be more ‘accessible’ and complete than other tutorials .
Thanks guys !
Interesting find. Thanks
1 point
Hi !
Hi there,
Being a die hard fan of Firefox, I downloaded this out of curiosity; now I need to find the time to read through it and see if I could ever manage to produce sth (I’m sooo not good in coding!! & always found the usual manuals to be … disheartening for beginners).
Never the less, it’s sth new to learn about.
Cheers.
1 point
Thank you!
Saw this on the download page for this Ebook.
Did you know some SitePoint books offer a free downloadable code archive?
In order to download the code archive you must own a copy of the book.
So as far as I know (after checking the definition of own), we now own a copy of this Ebook so we are probably entitled to this free archive (just erase my post if I am wrong).
At the same link, you can also get the archive for a previous offer “The Principles Of Successful Freelancing” if you had the chance to download a copy.
The link is http://www.sitepoint.com/books/codearchive.php?SID=9ba1375a8bf9ae73eff77e318a4abb91
Excellent book by the way, helpful as were the others
4 points
Hi Paul!
I’m sure you know we have covered “The Principles Of Successful Freelancing” on September 10, 2009.
http://for-free-on-internet.com/2009/09/the-principles-of-successful-freelancing-another-important-free-ebook/
Very interesting your tip about grabing the free downloadable code archive.
Thank you!
Addendum to my previous post, in this particular case, the code is already included in the download.
But the link is still good if you have the other Ebook!
Let me also expand on the notion of owning, you must “legally” own (either by purchase or bonus offer) these Ebooks.
So as the offer (for both Ebooks) was legal (at the time of the offer) , you could get the code library!
Sorry for being so verbose but you can understand the importance of being responsible.
3 points
Thank you for taking the time to make it very clear for all of us.
Regards !
Thank you - the book looks very interesting, looking forward to reading through it.
1 point
Thank YOU !
Not really of use to me, because I’m using opera as my default browser. I think It’s much better, then firefox, since everything I need is built in into the browser, including (but not limited to): speed dial, feed manager, opera link (to synchronize my bookmarks, etc…), opera unite (allowing you to share content directly with friends without having to upload anything to a Web site), opera turbo (speeds up data transfer and reduces the amount of data that needs to be downloaded in order to view a page), mouse gestures, etc… and all of that without slowing the browser itself down
Very interesting find if you ask me…
I didn’t take time to read the book yet, but I’m sure it will be a very informative reading as Sitepoint is a worthy editor (although I find their pricing policy to be a curve to buying: it’s 30$ a book - just imagine, 20$ the pdf version… and 40$ the bundle… hum: 20$ for a pdf I’ll surely need to print in order to do the exercises without filling my screen with the pdf reading is quite a price… and the idea of 10 extra bucks to grab the pdf when I already paid for the book… I thought a pricing policy and bundle offers were made to be incentive… but maybe that’s just me… back to the subject !)
When I saw this article I thought of speaking about http://reference.sitepoint.com/
This is a very valuable documentation upon htlm, css and javascript : accurate, straightforward and intelligibly written.
That brings me to the point. If you’re somehow interested in …
Please read the rest in the update to the main article. Thank you Franck!
Awesome! This has always been something I wanted to fool around with! I am a diehard FF user, so this could be a super great find for me!! Thankies!!
I was thinking of making a firefox extension recently as a class project. This is going to be really helpful.
Thanks
1 point
Hi !
I had looked for info on building FF extensions over a year ago. The Mozilla Developer Center site had some stuff, but I don’t remember it as being as detailed and straightforward as what the contents of this eBook indicates. So I know this is a valuable find for anyone interested in trying this.
The Codeburner extension also sounds interesting, especially if it will automatically update to new versions of html/css. I had another FF extension (DevBoi) giving me this offline info in a nice sidebar, but it appears to be individually maintained and not very active.
By the way, if you have a bit of programming knowledge but still think you can’t write an extension, think again. addons.mozilla.org is currently showing 5000 available.
Thanks Franck and 4Free! (link still works as Dec 24)