Controlled Thinking Blog

So apparently the Add-On SDK for Firefox extension development is being put to rest.  WebExtensions are where it’s at.  This is probably old news to many, but I’ve not been paying close attention.  The new method is modeled after Chrome’s extension stuff and supposedly even Edge has a similar method.

Anyway, I spent Thursday and Friday of this week working on a little Firefox WebExtension.  I’ve added a toolbar button with a popup dialog and some code to communicate with a background script.  The next step is to use the “storage” part of the API.

I quit my job in June of this year to spend the summer with my kids.  I also wanted to spend some time messing around with some different software – tools, languages, etc.  I especially wanted to play around with some of the new Java 8 features.  As you can see, I’ve also taken the opportunity to install WordPress.  We’ll see how this goes!