Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

Browsers are normally banned from launching local progra...
circumvented in Firefox?

Code snippets:File I/O
From MDC
This article describes local file input/output in chrome ...
You access the file system using Mozilla XPCOM component ...

Code snippets:Running applications
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This page describes how to run other programs from your ...

Connect as a first class action in the browser
Today’s Web is highly personalized. If you take a look ...
The experience of signing up and connecting to sites, ho ...
Even new technologies such as OpenID still require a sim ...
... ead more about Mozill

Create extensions that go beyond the built-in capabiliti... The Mozilla project's XUL engine is a user-interface lan... use to extend Mozilla browsers, or to build stand-alone ... is a surprisingly easy way to build cross-platform brows... this pair o

Despite the tabbed browsing feature, Firefox otherwise i...
There is generally a tag for doing this: autocomplete = ...
Adding it to the input tag: Firefox still autofills!
Removing "address" in lang_main for related input fields ...
... pretty useless

Firefox 3.5 introduces support for DOM workers. These a... that can be easily created and can send messages back to... Creating a worker is as simple as calling the Worker() c... specifying a script to be run in the worker thread.

Microformats allow web sites to provide semantic data to... order to make it possible to present summaries of the in... page without having to know how to parse the document it... implements a global Microformats object that provides ac... microformat

Mozilla Firefox based Spiders
Author Bob Clary
Web Spider applications have a multitude of possible ...

Piggy Bank is a Firefox extension that turns your browse... platform, by allowing you to extract data from different... them together.
Piggy Bank also allows you to store this extracted infor ...

Rendering Web Page To Images
For a long time now, people have been asking for ways to ...

This firefox add-on lets you visualize all the RDFa data... page, shows a list with errors and warnings found while ... document, and allows to execute SPARQL queries on the RD...

What are Personas?
Personas are easy-to-install, easy-to-use themes that ch ...

XUL:browser
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A frame which is expected to contain a view of a Web doc ...