[Project_owners] Anecdotes about Extension Development

[Jesper Staun Hansen]

My first (and still only) addon was inspired by FoxGame :-)
Today, it looks no where near to be inspired by FoxGame (except from 
some url checks)

Thanks mate.

Ramiro Aparicio wrote:
> Well, that is not so strange all extensions are within the same scope 
> so everyone can hijack other functions (it depends on the loading 
> order, which depends on installation order) but I learned it by the 
> hard way I did not create a custom function with a stange name I 
> defined my own "eval" function, you can imagine how everything started 
> to crash when I added more extensions to my installation of Firefox.
> Kindly enough Mouse Gestures developers told me about that shared 
> scope problem when I opened a bug about our strange interactions :P
>
> Some other stories to tell:
>  + Initiallly my IDE was: Notepad + Winrar (yes I made the whole zip 
> and rename process every time) + TortoiseCVS, I then changed to 
> Notepad + 7zip + Bat + Tortoise, then Eclipse + 7zip to finally 
> Eclipse with Ant builder, originally I took me 5 minutes to make a xpi 
> while now its only 20-30 seconds.
>  + I will never forget the last second change about security 
> restrictions in RC3 a week before Firefox 3 release, everyone already 
> had their T-shirt at home for updating extensions to be compatible 
> with FF3 but a week before release hundreds of extensions developers 
> saw their extensions broken and with 6 days to rerelease and the 
> review list on AMO bigger than ever.
> I still love one of the comments on that bug:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=292789#c101
> + Until my last release a couple of months ago I still was testing my 
> extension in Seamonkey, I thought that if it worked there I would work 
> in every version of Firefox.
>
> My motivations to develop Foxgame: It was terribly boring to make a 
> lot of time calcs by hand and having to select an option everytime I 
> logged in Ogame, so I made a Greasemonkey script and some time later I 
> was making Foxgame as an extension.
>
> Ramiro Aparicio
>
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> Desarrollador de FoxGame http://foxgame.mozdev.org
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>
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman 
> <buanzo at buanzo.com.ar <mailto:buanzo at buanzo.com.ar>> wrote:
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>     Brian King wrote:
>     > Mozdev has been around since 2000 and this seems like the best
>     group of
>     > all to ask for contributions. So if you have any stories that
>     you think
>     > would fit, I'd love to hear them.
>
>     I have a strange thing.
>
>     In a quickie, I created a function outside of my singleton
>     component. This function was called
>     getCharPref(), and itwas defined like function
>     getCharPref(blah,blah) {blah blah}.
>
>     Problem: Some OTHER extension was calling it. Why? I guess it had
>     it's own getCharPref, but for some
>     reason MINE was being called. Was I overloading a global
>     getCharPref? Should that even be possible?
>     No idea. But it's definitely interesting. I could hijack other
>     extensions with a perfectly "safe"
>     extension. Gross. (re-tested with latest firefox).
>
>     - --
>     Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman
>     Independent Linux and Security Consultant - SANS - OISSG - OWASP
>     http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/eng.html
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