How to create a Firefox add-on using Objective-C on Mac OS X?

More precisely my goal is to create an add-on (or plug-in?) which is able to communicate with my main Cocoa application using something like the NSDistributedNotificationCenter. I need to be able to inject JavaScript code into the current webpage and get return values from the JS calls wh开发者_开发技巧en my add-on receives the request to do so by my main application. Then I need to pass the return values back to my main application for processing.

Alternatively if there is a simple way to call JS in the active Firefox webpage and get return values that would also do the job.

If you want more info on why I want to do this, you can look at my other question: How to send JavaScript code to IE using C# (.Net 3.5), run it, then get a string return value from the JS code?

Note that I'm not only interested in knowing how to make a Firefox add-on but also in everything I talked about above. For example, how to inject JS into the active webpage, etc.

I'd like guidance on what technologies to use, tutorials and sample code if possible. The best would be a sample Xcode project but I'm not counting on this :P

Thanks in advance!

N.B: I'm working on 10.4.

You could try using C-Types with FF, which is a regular dll being called by Javascript in your addon, this is WAY better approach that using XPCOM, because if the Interfaces you use in there can change in each FF version, indeed you will have to do multiple dlls each for your addon supported FF versions

Go here my friend->

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/js-ctypes/Using_js-ctypes

First learn how to write add-ons for Firefox. Adding Objective-C code afterwards is the easy part.

I know there is source available to the OSX FF Plugins for displaying download progress over the Dock Icon (http://github.com/vasi/firefox-dock-progress) and the "pdf plugin" that allows FF to do in-line PDFs is on Google Code.