Firefox Addons

Firefox is my favorite browser.
And the addons have a huge role to play in this :)

Vinod gave us a lesson in Firefox addons using the RSS Ticker as an example. He has been looking into it for a couple of weeks now. He says that it eats a lot of CPU cycles and this is what caused him to take the addon apart, rectify it and glue it together again!

When you install one of 'em addons, its a web based installation. But if instead you download it, you get a .xpi file which is a regular Zip.The internals of this, is what Vinod showed us.

Additionally, he told us of few other good addons, one being Firebug, something that even i can vouch for. Firebug is an addon that helps ypu debug your Javascript. It is set by default to show errors for the area that holds the page content and not the toolbars area, but this can be changed in the about:config.

So, head to https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ to get your set of addons for firefox!