Mozilla is committed to ensuring an excellent experience for both our users and developers of add-ons. Please review the policies below before submitting your add-on.

Support for extensions using XUL/XPCOM or the Add-on SDK was removed in Firefox 57, released November 2017. As there is no supported version of Firefox enabling these technologies, this page will be removed by December 2020.

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Add-ons using the techniques described in this document are considered a legacy technology in Firefox. Don't use these techniques to develop new add-ons. Use WebExtensions instead. If you maintain an add-on which uses the techniques described here, consider migrating it to use WebExtensions.

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Starting from Firefox 53, no new legacy add-ons will be accepted on addons.mozilla.org (AMO) for desktop Firefox and Firefox for Android.

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Starting from Firefox 57, only extensions developed using WebExtensions APIs will be supported on Desktop Firefox and Firefox for Android.

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Even before Firefox 57, changes coming up in the Firefox platform will break many legacy extensions. These changes include multiprocess Firefox (e10s), sandboxing, and multiple content processes. Legacy extensions that are affected by these changes should migrate to use WebExtensions APIs if they can. See the "Compatibility Milestones" document for more information.

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A wiki page containing resources, migration paths, office hours, and more, is available to help developers transition to the new technologies.

za pomocą dodatku sdk można tworzyć dodatki dla firefoksa. można użyć różnych standardowych technologii internetowych: javascript, html i css, aby utworzyć dodatki. sdk zawiera javascript apis, które można wykorzystać do tworzenia dodatków i narzędzi do tworzenia, uruchamiania, testowania i pakowania dodatków.

jak zainstalować sdk i używać narzędzia jpm do tworzenia, testowania i dodawania pakietów.

Przewodnik dla współtwórców
-     Dowiedz się, jak rozpocząć wkład do pakietu SDK oraz o najważniejsze idiom użyte w kodzie SDK, takie jak moduły, klasy i dziedziczenie, właściwości prywatne i procesy zawartości.
- Infrastruktura SDK
-     Aspekty technologii bazującej na technologii SDK: moduły, identyfikator programu i reguły określające zgodność z Firefoksem.
- Skrypty zawartości
-     Szczegółowy przewodnik po pracy z skryptami zawartości.

Idiomy SDK
-     Ramka zdarzeń SDK i rozróżnienie między dodatkowymi skryptami a skryptami zawartości.
- Migracja XUL
-     Przewodnik po przenoszeniu dodatków XUL do pakietu SDK. W tym przewodniku znajdziesz porównanie obu zestawów narzędzi i przykładowy przykład przenoszenia dodatku XUL.
- Multiprocess Firefox i SDK
-     Jak sprawdzić, czy dodatek jest zgodny z wieloma procesorami Firefox, czy nie, i odpowiednio go naprawić.

Dokumentacja referencyjna narzędzia jpm służącego do tworzenia, testowania i dodawania pakietów, konsoli globalnej używanej do logowania i pliku package.json.

Documentation

Getting started with Thunderbird

A brave, young developer wants to develop an add-on for Thunderbird. Here's a few links to help them through this journey.

Start by reading the tutorial and learn how to build a Thunderbird extension (Outdated, still talks about overlays and the add-on builder is no longer available but the tutorial has not been updated.)

Read about the main windows so that you know what one means when they say « thread pane », « preview pane », and « folder pane ».

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Want to do some real stuff? See how to inspect a message (demo add-on included!)

Play with our other demo add-on that exercises some more advanced Thunderbird-specific features

Want to do even more stuff? Don't reinvent the wheel: steal functions from the thunderbird-stdlib project (doc here). Functions for dealing with messages (delete them, archive them, change their tags, etc.) are included.

Haven't found what you're looking for? Read the Thunderbird how-tos; they contain a lot of recipes for things extensions want to do.

Still haven't managed to do what you wanted? See the list of all Thunderbird communication channels so that you know where to ask when you get stuck :-).

Feeling really brave? Read the source using a fancy interface; you can often find tests that demonstrate how to do what you're trying to achieve.

The Gloda database

Thunderbird has a subsystem called Gloda. Gloda stands for « Global Database », and creates Thunderbird-wide relations between objects. Gloda provides concepts such as Conversations, Messages, Identities, Contacts. All these concepts are related together: a Conversation contains Messages which are linked to Identities (from field, to field) which are themselves part of a Contact: indeed, a contact has multiple identities.

Typical use cases for Gloda: find all messages whose subject matches [search term], find all messages from [person], find all messages in the same thread as [a given message], find all messages involving [person], etc. etc.

Gloda is extremely powerful and is used heavily by add-ons such as Thunderbird Conversations. Learn more about Gloda:

Documentation

Getting started with Thunderbird

The Gloda database

More Thunderbird-specific links

General links

Community

Tools

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