Mozilla Firefox component registration

Hi all,

I have created a XPCOM component for Mozilla browsers.

And i extend the functionality to Firefox also. Here i need to register the XPCOM component with the Mozilla Firefox.

I did the following steps to register the XPCOM component.

1) Copied the .dll and .xpt files to Firefox/components folder.

2) Removed the existing compreg.dat & xpti.dat file from the components folder.

3) Then invoked firefox.exe to regiter all the components in the components folder.

I see my component got registered in the compreg.dat file in the firefox/components directory and also in profiles directory.

But my component doesn't get xpcom-startup notifications rather.

Whether i am doing anything wrong ?

Please let me know the way to register a XPCOM component with Firefox.

Thanks & Regards
Raghavan

 

Welcome to the Forum, svraghavan_s!

svraghavan_s,

I certainly don't have the kind of programming experience to help you personally. However, I did a Google search for: Create Mozilla XPCOM component

The Search came back with some sites that I believe will be helpful, and hopefully answer some of your questions:

Creating XPCOM Components

mozIRegistry

Creating XPCOM Components

Creatiing XPCOM Components

There were many more similar subjects, on both creating, and registering the components. Also a FORUM for consulting with other XUL programmers.

Ramona