Mozilla Toolbar Development

Here at UKVoIPNet™ we have been trying out some Mozilla Firefox development. There's a great number of articles available free on the Internet to do with this kind of work.

The task was to build a toolbar, which would send the URL of the current pages back to a webservice written in Java. The Javascript behind the toolbar was powerful and concise thanks to the XPCOM functionality.

The toolbar uses AJAX to talk to the web service and to parse an XML response, which it then stores in the registry.

There are lots of possibilities for development for Mozilla products and we look forward to starting our next project.

Packaging the Toolbar into an XPI file (pronounced Zippy) was simple and allows for distribution via a website or the official Mozilla Firefox addon pages.