A year ago, I got my hands on ‘Programming Firefox’ (O’Reilly by Feldt) and built the infrastructure for my add-on but I just didn’t have the time to puzzle out a) setting up a development environment and b) how to test an the app and the installation of the app safely. And the stuff at the developer web site (until this video) was too slow and not at all reassuring.

Your video is all that a web developer needs to get going and deliver the goods. XUL is simple (and annoying), CSS, Javascript (video tutorials by Crockford at YUI Theater are really good), DOM, XHTML – I know all of that stuff.

Now, I can finally get busy and deliver a cute little add-on.

I really hope that the Firefox team will develop lots of short videos (1 to 5 minutes each) both as a) a step-by-step tutorial and b) by feature. If you want to win the browser race – in my opinion – videos are the KO criteria over the next few years.

The average person doesn’t need more features. I would suggest that they need at lot more videos explaining all these hundreds of features!

Also : thanks for including the commands needed for Linux, Mac and Win. I use all three (ie Ubuntu=Linux)! Including the commands for all three was very reassuring.

Many, many thanks for this excellent overview!