Sunday, March 4, 2007

Market Research

After talking with Amit, we agreed on the first two things in priority need to be done soon.
1. to find out if this kind of firefox plug-in already exists.
2. to get a general idea of how difficult to actually build this.

Today, i did market research about firefox plug-ins(they call them extensions), the result is there is no such a plug-in the same as i want to build.

Surprisingly I found some helpful extensions for my project which will save a lot of my time I think, as well as some interesting ones.

Helpful for my projects:
Aardvark- https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4111/
Print It! - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/282/
Print Context Menu - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2594/

Interesting ones:
Internote - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2011/
Nuke Anything Enhanced - https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/951/

Also found some helpful firefox extension tutorials, really good to get started quickly:
http://roachfiend.com/archives/2004/12/08/how-to-create-firefox-extensions/
http://businesslogs.com/technology/firefox_extension_tutorial.php
http://www.rietta.com/firefox/Tutorial/overview.html

Tomorrow I'll go through these tutorials real quickly, to get a general idea of how to build a firefox extenstion and how hard it is!

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