Access Thunderbird Window Areas
to access particular parts of the thunderbird window you can use these helper methods.

Get Thunderbird version
on thunderbird version 3.0b3pre and later, you can use the following snippet to get the thunderbird version.

Using MAPI with Thunderbird's Windows 7 developer builds
the thunderbird installer sets the installed build as the default mapi/mail client.

Index
found 118 pages: # page tags and summary 1 thunderbird thunderbird thunderbird is a mail/messaging application managed and developed by the thunderbird community.
... these pages document thunderbird and the mailnews backend which is also used in other projects such as seamonkey and postbox.
... 2 account provisioner the account provisioner is the dialog that first comes up when starting thunderbird.
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MCD, Mission Control Desktop, AKA AutoConfig - Archive of obsolete content
abstract this document is a concrete example of a centralized auto-configuration of mozilla apps, that are; firefox, thunderbird, mozilla suite 1.x.x, seamonkey and for the record, old netscape 4.x.
... this mcd (aka autoconfig here), is not to be confused with https://wiki.mozilla.org/thunderbird...oconfiguration .
... file location (not tested since 2012 ...) in thunderbird , firefox, the javascript preference file that calls the centralized preference file is located in $install_dir_moz_app/defaults/pref, for example in thunderbird this would be repectively for windows/linux: c:\program files\mozilla thunderbird\defaults\pref /usr/lib/thunderbird/default/pref ( it used to be in /usr/lib/thunderbird-version#/default/pref as in /usr/lib/thunderbird-5/default/pref ...
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Index
86 using nsipasswordmanager guide, interfaces, login manager, security the code on this page will work with applications using toolkit 1.8 and below such as firefox 2.0.0.x and thunderbird 2.0.0.x.
... 140 folders thunderbird the folder classes all implement the nsimsgfolder interface.
... 228 nsiabcard interfaces, interfaces:scriptable, xpcom, xpcom api reference, thunderbird the nsiabcard interface is used to represent and manipulate cards in the addressbook.
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Textbox (XPFE autocomplete) - Archive of obsolete content
alwaysopenpopup obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif true, the autocomplete popup will be displayed even when there are no matches.
... autocompletesearch new in thunderbird 2requires seamonkey 1.1 type: space-separated list of values a space-separated list of search component names, each of which implements the nsiautocompletesearch interface.
... mydomain new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 2.0 the user's email domain is suggested.
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Index - Archive of obsolete content
we will show how to do each of these things using the built-in components object provided by xulrunner application such as firefox and thunderbird.
... 229 developing add-ons add-ons this page will help guide you to the information you need in order to create add-ons for firefox, thunderbird, or other software based on the mozilla platform, as well as how to distribute your add-ons.
...as a rough overview this is a version string split by periods, some examples: 240 extensions support in seamonkey 2 add-ons, codingscripting, extensions, javascript, seamonkey, url, thunderbird starting with seamonkey 2 alpha 1 seamonkey supports toolkit/-style extensions.
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textbox (Toolkit autocomplete) - Archive of obsolete content
autocompletesearch new in thunderbird 2requires seamonkey 1.1 type: space-separated list of values a space-separated list of search component names, each of which implements the nsiautocompletesearch interface.
... mydomain new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 2.0 the user's email domain is suggested.
... gloda new in thunderbird 3 addrbook new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 2.0 the user's address book is searched.
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imgIContainer
66 introduced gecko 1.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11) implemented by: ?????????????????????????????????????.
... obsolete since gecko 2.0 methods native code only!addrestoredata obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.
...void addrestoredata( [array, size_is(acount), const] in char data, in unsigned long acount ); parameters data missing description acount missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description native code only!appendframe obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.
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Command line options
each message option follows the syntax field=value, for example: to=foo@nowhere.net subject=cool page attachment=www.mozilla.org attachment='file:///c:/test.txt' body=check this page or also in thunderbird 52 and newer: body=c:\path\to\file.txt separate multiple message options by comma (,), for example: "to=foo@nowhere.net,subject=cool page" .
...in general, the syntax is as follows: application -option -option "argument" -option argument examples the following examples show the use of the "-profilemanager" command, which will open the profile manager prior to starting firefox or thunderbird: windows select run from windows start menu.
...open terminal and enter the following command: cd /applications/firefox.app/contents/macos ./firefox -profilemanager if you use firefox nightly, you can enter: cd /applications/firefoxnightly.app/contents/macos ./firefox -profilemanager linux open terminal and enter the following command: cd thunderbird installation directory ./thunderbird -profilemanager the example above invokes the "-profilemanager" command line option with mozilla's thunderbird mail client.
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nsIAppShellService
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) implemented by: @mozilla.org/appshell/appshellservice;1 as a service: var appshellservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/appshellservice;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiappshellservice); method overview void closetoplevelwindow(in nsixulwindow awindow); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void createhiddenwindow(in nsiappshell aappshell); native code only!
...obsolete since gecko 1.8 methods closetoplevelwindow() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) close a window.
... createstartupstate() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) creates the initial state of the application by launching tasks specfied by "general.startup.*" prefs.
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nsINavBookmarksService
1.0 67 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11) implemented by: @mozilla.org/browser/nav-bookmarks-service;1.
... obsolete since gecko 13.0 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10)this feature is obsolete.
... native code only!getbookmarkidsforuritarray obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.
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Mozilla Quirks Mode Behavior
obsolete since gecko 35 (firefox 35.0 / thunderbird 35.0 / seamonkey 2.32) (bug 95530) this quirk is now html5 conform and has been adopted in standards mode.
... prior to gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3), there was no class check, so the :hover pseudoclass was not applied to class selectors; for example, .someclass:hover did not work.
... obsolete since gecko 2.0 html colors were parsed differently up to gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) (bug 121738).
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Main Windows
warning: this content is for older versions of thunderbird.
...see developer.thunderbird.net for newer information.
... the base chrome directory of thunderbird can sometimes appear confusing when you're just beginning to look at it.
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Setting up an extension development environment - Archive of obsolete content
these details apply to firefox, thunderbird, and seamonkey (version 2.0 and above).
...v on other distributions of linux/unix: /usr/local/bin/firefox -no-remote -p dev on macos mavericks (10.9) and newer: /applications/firefox.app/contents/macos/firefox-bin -no-remote -p dev & on windows: start -> run "%programfiles%\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe" -no-remote -p dev on windows 64 bit: start -> run "%programfiles(x86)%\mozilla firefox\firefox.exe" -no-remote -p dev to start thunderbird or seamonkey instead of firefox, substitute thunderbird, or seamonkey for the firefox used in our examples.
... accessing thunderbird development preferences to change preference settings in thunderbird, open the "preferences" (unix) or "options" (windows) interface.
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Extentsions FAQ - Archive of obsolete content
these two links should give you a starting point: http://www..xulplanet.com/tutorials/...u/advmenu.html http://www.xulplanet.com/tutorials/x...dommodify.html request for a thunderbird extension that can automatically detect the default domain when composing e-mails via autodetect.
... <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312818> "thunderbird requires domain in addresses and doesn't always add default" there is an extension that allows what you want attached to one of the comments in this bug.
... why does his extension not able to read the contents of a folder and then produce a segmentation fault after his extension reads preferences in thunderbird?
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nsIEditorIMESupport
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void begincomposition(in nstexteventreplyptr areply); native code only!
... methods native code only!begincomposition obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.
...void begincomposition( in nstexteventreplyptr areply ); parameters areply endcomposition() obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) handles the end of inline input composition.
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nsIFaviconService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 22.0 (firefox 22.0 / thunderbird 22.0 / seamonkey 2.19) implemented by: @mozilla.org/browser/favicon-service;1.
... getfavicondata() obsolete since gecko 22.0 (firefox 22.0 / thunderbird 22.0 / seamonkey 2.19) note: this method was removed in gecko 22.0.
... getfavicondataasdataurl() obsolete since gecko 22.0 (firefox 22.0 / thunderbird 22.0 / seamonkey 2.19) note: this method was removed in gecko 22.0.
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XPCOM reference
this macro is meant for critical errors; like assertions, ns_errors should not be reachable.ns_if_addrefmacrons_if_releasemacrons_releasemacrons_warningmacronsgetmoduleprocthis function prototype provides the xpcom entry-point into a module.nsiabcard/thunderbird3the nsiabcard interface is used to represent and manipulate cards in the address book.
... nsmsgnavigationtypethe nsmsgnavigationtype interface contains constants used for message navigation in thunderbird.
... for example to move forward a message, you would call:nsmsgsearchopvaluedefined in comm-central/ mailnews/ base/ search/ public/ nsmsgsearchcore.idl nsmsgviewcommandcheckstatethe nsmsgviewcommandcheckstate interface contains constants used for command status in thunderbird.
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Mozilla
bugzilla bugzilla.mozilla.org (often abbreviated b.m.o) is mozilla.org's bug-tracking system, a database for recording bugs and enhancement requests for firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, camino, and other mozilla.org projects.
...(to get a process dump for thunderbird or some other product, substitute the product name where ever you see firefox in these instructions.) how to get a stacktrace for a bug report if you file a bug report in bugzilla about a crash you should include a stacktrace (call stack) in your report.
...(to get a stacktrace for thunderbird or some other product, substitute the product name where ever you see firefox in this instructions.) how to implement a custom autocomplete search component the xul textbox element supports an autocomplete mechanism that is used to create a textbox with a popup containing a list of possible completions for what the user has started to typ...
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Install Manifests - Archive of obsolete content
firefox or thunderbird) uses to determine information about an add-on as it is being installed.
...extensions compatible only with firefox or thunderbird 2 should specify a maxversion of 2.0.0.*.
...firefox and thunderbird).
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nsIDownloadManager
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/download-manager;1.
... endbatchupdate() obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) indicate that a batch update is ending.
... flush() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) flush the download datasource to disk.
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Configuring Build Options
building with an objdir this means that the source code and object files are not intermingled in your directory system and you can build multiple applications (e.g., firefox and thunderbird) from the same source tree.
... choose one of the following options to add to your mozconfig file: browser (firefox) ac_add_options --enable-application=browser note: this is the default mail (thunderbird) ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/mail mozilla suite (seamonkey) ac_add_options --enable-application=suite calendar (lightning extension, uses thunderbird) ac_add_options --enable-application=comm/mail ac_add_options --enable-calendar selecting build options the build options you choose depends on what application you are building and what you will be using the buil...
...some extensions are not compatible with all apps, for example: cookie is not compatible with thunderbird typeaheadfind is not compatible with any toolkit app (firefox, thunderbird) unless you know which extensions are compatible with which apps, do not use the --enable-extensions option; the build system will automatically select the proper default set of extensions.
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nsIBrowserHistory
inherits from: nsiglobalhistory2 last changed in gecko 22.0 (firefox 22.0 / thunderbird 22.0 / seamonkey 2.19) implemented by: @mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1.
... methods addpagewithdetails() obsolete since gecko 15.0 (firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) note: this method was removed in gecko 15.0.
... markpageasfollowedlink() obsolete since gecko 22.0 (firefox 22.0 / thunderbird 22.0 / seamonkey 2.19) note: this method was moved to another interface in gecko 22.0.
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nsIDBFolderInfo
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) implemented by: ?????????????????????????????????????.
... missing exception missing description getcharacterset() void getcharacterset( out acstring charset, out boolean overriden ); parameters charset missing description overriden missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description getcharactersetoverride() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) void getcharactersetoverride( out boolean charactersetoverride ); parameters charactersetoverride missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description getcharptrcharacterset() string getcharptrcharacterset(); parameters none.
...sing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description getcharptrproperty() string getcharptrproperty( in string propertyname ); parameters propertyname missing description return value missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description native code only!getlocale obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0)this feature is obsolete.
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nsIScrollable
inherits from: nsiscrollable last changed in gecko 29.0 (firefox 29.0 / thunderbird 29.0 / seamonkey 2.26) method overview long getcurscrollpos(in long scrollorientation); obsolete since gecko 29.0 long getdefaultscrollbarpreferences(in long scrollorientation); void getscrollbarvisibility(out boolean verticalvisible, out boolean horizontalvisible); void getscrollrange(in long scrollorientation, out long minpos, out long maxpos); obsolete since gecko 29.0 void setcurscrollpos(in long scrollorientation, in long curpos); obsolete since gecko 29.
... methods getcurscrollpos() obsolete since gecko 29.0 (firefox 29.0 / thunderbird 29.0 / seamonkey 2.26) long getcurscrollpos( in long scrollorientation ); parameters scrollorientation an integer representing the orientation of the scrollbar.
... getscrollrange() obsolete since gecko 29.0 (firefox 29.0 / thunderbird 29.0 / seamonkey 2.26) void getscrollrange( in long scrollorientation, out long minpos, out long maxpos ); parameters scrollorientation an integer representing the orientation of the scrollbar.
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List of Mozilla-Based Applications - Archive of obsolete content
lla nss and npapi libraries emusic download manager music downloader for emusic emusic remote music manager enlis genome personal genome browser esxx javascript application server uses mozilla rhino etna xml wysiwyg editor eudora mail and news application the upcoming version 8 will be based on thunderbird evergreen library automation system evolution email client uses nss exe elearning xhtml editor seems to be using xul for some of their webui facebook open platform facebook open platform the fbml parser used in the platform is based on mozilla code fennec browser for mobiles as mark notes: fennec is not firefox, it’s a ...
... font management tool firecast digital signage and interactive kiosk tools also used in firecast easystart mozilla firefox web browser web browser usage stats from global stats fossamail email client for windows platform, based on mozilla thunderbird developed by moonchild productions, creator of the pale moon web browser flickr uploadr image upload tool see flickr uploadr: open source and powered by xulrunner foxkeh clock clock frizione javascript development, testing and deployment environment uses mozilla rhino geckofx embeddable gecko gjs javascript bindings for gnome globalmojo browser that raises mone...
...ino phloneme publishing tool for vocab collab phped php editor embedded mozilla browser in product pidgin im client uses nss plain old webserver extension and standalone webserver 5,000 users and 30,000 downloads poe::xul framework for remote xul application in poe postbox email client started as a fork of thunderbird printgroove jt suite print process software uses xulrunner and spidermonkey prism (was webrunner) single-site browser xulrunner application pro/engineer wildfire cadcam product psycrunner chat, messenger, multicast toolkit about 1,000 users – xulrunner version of psyczilla extension pyjamas-desktop a python web widget tool...
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Custom toolbar button - Archive of obsolete content
this page tells you step-by-step how to make a custom toolbar button in firefox, seamonkey 2.0, thunderbird or sunbird.
... supported applications you can use the steps on this page with any or all of these mozilla applications: firefox 1.5 or a later version seamonkey 2.0 or a later version thunderbird 1.5 or a later version sunbird 0.3 or a later version pre-release versions of these (alphas, betas and release candidates) are also ok.
...com" em:version="1.0" em:homepageurl="http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/custom_toolbar_button" em:iconurl="chrome://custombutton/content/icon.png" > <em:targetapplication><!-- firefox --> <description em:id="{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}" em:minversion="1.4" em:maxversion="*" /> </em:targetapplication> <em:targetapplication><!-- thunderbird --> <description em:id="{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}" em:minversion="1.5" em:maxversion="51.0" /> </em:targetapplication> <em:targetapplication><!-- sunbird --> <description em:id="{718e30fb-e89b-41dd-9da7-e25a45638b28}" em:minversion="0.2.9" em:maxversion="99" /> </em:targetapplication> <em:file> <descr...
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textbox - Archive of obsolete content
from gecko 1.9 to gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9), the script code would actually execute twice, once in the context of the anonymous html <input> element and once in the context of the <textbox> element itself.
... as of gecko 13.0 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10), the script code only runs in the context of the <textbox> element, matching the behavior of all other event handlers.
...from gecko 1.9 to gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9), the script code would actually execute twice, once in the context of the anonymous html <input> element and once in the context of the <textbox> element itself.
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Application Translation with Mercurial
thunderbird and tb-* denote branches of thunderbird, the mail client, newsgroup and feed reader and chat client.
... lightning and cal-* denote branches of lightning, the calendar add-on for thunderbird.
... the localization of lightning now happens on thunderbird's tb-* branches, the cal-* branches have been retired.
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nsIAppStartup
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) implemented by: @mozilla.org/toolkit/app-startup;1.
... createstartupstate() obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) creates the initial state of the application by launching tasks specfied by "general.startup.*" prefs.
... doprofilestartup() obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) starts up the profile manager with the given arguments.
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nsIContentViewer
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7) implemented by: ?????????????????????????????????????.
... note: prior to gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7), this attribute was part of nsidocumentviewer.
... note: prior to gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7), this attribute was part of nsidocumentviewer.
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nsIDocumentLoader
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/docloaderservice;1.
... methods clearparentdocloader() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) void clearparentdocloader(); parameters none.
... createdocumentloader() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) void createdocumentloader( out nsidocumentloader aninstance ); parameters aninstance destroy() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) void destroy(); parameters none.
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nsIXPConnect
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) to access the xpconnect service, use code like this: nsresult rv; nscomptr<nsixpconnect> xpconnect = do_getservice(nsixpconnect::getcid(), &rv); if (ns_succeeded(rv)) { /* use the object */ } method overview void addjsholder(in voidptr aholder, in nsscriptobjecttracerptr atracer); native code only!
... [noscript,notxpcom] void getcaller( out jscontextptr ajscontext, out jsobjectptr aobject ); parameters ajscontext missing description aobject missing description return value missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description native code only!getcowforobject obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.
...wrappednativeprototype( in jscontextptr ajscontext, in jsobjectptr ascope, in nsiclassinfo aclassinfo ); parameters ajscontext missing description ascope missing description aclassinfo missing description return value missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description native code only!getwrapperforobject obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.
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LDAP Support
this document is intended to "fill in the gaps" about how enterprise customers can leverage and customize ldap support in mozilla thunderbird.
...it assumes you are already familiar with configuring preferences for deployed builds in addition to setting up thunderbird to use an ldap directory.
... it should be noted that all of this information applies to both thunderbird and the seamonkey application suite.
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Mailnews and Mail code review requirements
thunderbird and seamonkey are the primary users of the code in mozilla/mailnews.
... thunderbird's front-end code is stored in mozilla/mail.
... mailnews and mail review rules patches affecting thunderbird user experience or interfaces note: it is recommended that when working on bugs that affect user experience or interfaces, that ui-review is obtained at an early stage in the patch development process.
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Authoring MathML - MathML
prior to gecko 31.0 (firefox 31.0 / thunderbird 31.0 / seamonkey 2.28), it was a bit tedious to setup math fonts, see the font instructions for mozilla 2.0.
... for gecko 31.0 (firefox 31.0 / thunderbird 31.0 / seamonkey 2.28), this is much simpler and is compatible with any web rendering engine with mathml support.
...in thunderbird, you can use the "insert html" command to paste your html+mathml code.
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Preferences - Archive of obsolete content
information here applies to the mozilla suite, firefox, thunderbird, and possibly other mozilla-based applications.
... (this is not exactly how it's coded in libpref, but it's equivalent) where the default values are read from all mozilla-based applications read (application directory)/defaults/preferences/*.js in addition to that, recent versions of toolkit applications (firefox 1.0, thunderbird 1.0, and the like but not the mozilla suite) read extension defaults -- usually located in (profile folder)/extensions/(id)/defaults/preferences/ these files use simple javascript-like syntax.
... to add a default value for a preference, you should add a line like this to your default preferences file: pref("extensions.extensionname.preferencename", false); how to install an extension's defaults files for mozilla suite (not firefox and thunderbird), copy them to (appdir)/defaults/pref in your install script.
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Download Manager preferences - Archive of obsolete content
in thunderbird the default value is true.
... in firefox,thunderbird and seamonkey the default value is false.
... in thunderbird the default value is 1; if the preference is missing, the value 0 is used.
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Index - Archive of obsolete content
956 creating toolbar buttons (customize toolbar window) add-ons, extensions, firefox 3, toolbars, xul this article explains how to add a toolbar button to a toolkit application (such as firefox, thunderbird, or kompozer) using overlays.
... 957 custom toolbar button add-ons, extensions, seamonkey, toolbars, xul, thunderbird this page tells you step-by-step how to make a custom toolbar button in firefox, seamonkey 2.0, thunderbird or sunbird.
... 959 complete this page is for readers who have followed the custom toolbar button tutorial for firefox, thunderbird and sunbird, or the custom toolbar button:seamonkey tutorial for seamonkey, and who want to learn more about developing extensions.
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Updating an extension to support multiple Mozilla applications - Archive of obsolete content
we'll build upon the stock watcher extension created in earlier articles in this series, updating it so it can also be used in thunderbird and sunbird (previous versions worked only in firefox).
... download the sample updating the install manifest the first step is to revise the extension's install manifest to indicate that it can be installed in thunderbird and sunbird.
... this is done by adding new <targetapplication> tags to the install.rdf file, like this: <!-- describe the thunderbird versions we support --> <em:targetapplication> <description> <em:id>{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}</em:id> <em:minversion>1.5</em:minversion> <em:maxversion>2.0.0.*</em:maxversion> </description> </em:targetapplication> <!-- describe the sunbird versions we support --> <em:targetapplication> <description> <em:id> {718e30fb-e89b-41dd-9da7-e25a45638b28}</em:id> <em:minversion>0.2</em:minversion> <em:maxversion>0.4.*</em:maxversion> </description> </em:targetapplication> these two blocks indicate that the extension supports thunderbird versions 1.5 through 2.0.0.x, sunbird version...
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How to implement a custom autocomplete search component
there are actually two autocomplete mechanisms: an older mechanism that is part of the "xpfe" codebase and is used in older applications such as thunderbird and seamonkey.
... thunderbird 2.x and seamonkey 1.1.x support the toolkit interfaces, although they do not use the same autocomplete widget.
...(firefox: 1.0+; seamonkey: 2.0+) file: search file names (firefox: 2.0+; thunderbird: 2.0+; seamonkey: 1.1+; gtk builds only).
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Localizing with Mercurial
localizing current versions of firefox, thunderbird and seamonkey includes working with mercurial.
... comm-central contains the files for seamonkey and thunderbird which are not already part of firefox.
...you can therefore use the one set up for developing firefox, seamonkey and thunderbird without having to pull mozilla-central a second time.
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Fonts for Mozilla 2.0's MathML engine
note: these instructions are for gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) until gecko 30.0 (firefox 30.0 / thunderbird 30.0 / seamonkey 2.27).
...this requires gecko 15.0 (firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) or higher.
...in that case, you will see the correct rendering on these pages if you use gecko 15.0 (firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) or greater.
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Index
you might have been motivated to work with nss because it is used by the mozilla applications such as firefox, thunderbird, etc.
...for example, this how-to article covers how to configure firefox and thunderbird to use the new shared nss databases: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db_howto for an engineering draft on the changes in the shared nss databases, see the nss project wiki: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db see also certutil (1) pk12util (1) signtool (1) the nss wiki has information on the new database design and how to configure applications to...
...for example, this how-to article covers how to configure firefox and thunderbird to use the new shared nss databases: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db_howto for an engineering draft on the changes in the shared nss databases, see the nss project wiki: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db see also certutil (1) modutil (1) the nss wiki has information on the new database design and how to configure applications to use it.
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nsIAccessibleRetrieval
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview nsiaccessible getaccessiblefor(in nsidomnode anode); nsiaccessible getaccessibleinshell(in nsidomnode anode, in nsipresshell apresshell); nsiaccessible getaccessibleinweakshell(in nsidomnode anode, in nsiweakreference apresshell); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsiaccessible getaccessibleinwindow(in nsidomnode anode, in nsidomwindow adomwin); obsolete since gecko 2.0 nsiaccessible getapplicationaccessible(); nsiaccessible getattachedaccessiblefor(in ns...
... getaccessibleinweakshell() obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) return an nsiaccessible for a dom node in the given weak shell.
... getaccessibleinwindow() obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) return an nsiaccessible for a dom node in present shell for this dom window.
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nsIDOMNSHTMLDocument
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) method overview void captureevents(in long eventflags); void clear(); boolean execcommand(in domstring commandid, in boolean doshowui, in domstring value); boolean execcommandshowhelp(in domstring commandid); obsolete since gecko 14.0 domstring getselection(); nsidomdocument open(in acstring acontenttype, in boolean areplace); boolean querycommandenabled(in domstring commandid); boolean querycommandindeterm(in domstring commandid); b...
... execcommandshowhelp() obsolete since gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11) this method never did anything but throw an exception, and was removed entirely in gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11).
... querycommandtext() obsolete since gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11) this method never did anything but throw an exception, and was removed entirely in gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11).
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nsILocalFileMac
inherits from: nsilocalfile last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview cfurlref getcfurl(); native code only!
...native code only!inittoappwithcreatorcode obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.
... native code only!initwithfsspec obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0)this feature is obsolete.
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nsINavHistoryResultObserver
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 11.0 (firefox 11.0 / thunderbird 11.0 / seamonkey 2.8) note: in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1), this interface replaced the older nsinavhistoryresultviewer interface, which only allowed one client at a time.
... containerclosed() obsolete since gecko 11.0 (firefox 11.0 / thunderbird 11.0 / seamonkey 2.8) called when a container node's state changes from opened to closed.
... note: this method was deprecated in gecko 2.0 and removed in gecko 11.0 (firefox 11.0 / thunderbird 11.0 / seamonkey 2.8).
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nsIPluginHost
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview nsifile createtempfiletopost(in string apostdataurl); native code only!
... nsifile createtempfiletopost( in string apostdataurl ); parameters apostdataurl return value native code only!createtmpfiletopost obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.
... void findproxyforurl( in string aurl, out string aresult ); parameters aurl aresult native code only!getplugin nsiplugin getplugin( in string amimetype ); parameters amimetype return value getplugincount() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) void getplugincount( out unsigned long aplugincount ); parameters aplugincount native code only!getpluginfactory obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0)this feature is obsolete.
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Address Book examples
note: thunderbird and seamonkey user interfaces now reference 'contacts' not 'cards' however, as the backend still uses the 'cards' terminology, that is what is used here this article provides examples on accessing and manipulating thunderbird address books.
...see an overview of thunderbird components for a general description of the thunderbird user interface and related programmatic interfaces.
...in thunderbird a menu option is provided instead.
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Theme Packaging
this document describes how to package themes for thunderbird.
... pre-requisites making a theme for thunderbird requires knowledge of cascading stylesheets (css), probably xbl, and some graphic design and aesthetic skill (...or maybe not).
... theme file layout thunderbird themes are packaged in an xpi file with the following structure: theme.xpi: install.rdf preview.png icon.png chrome/ browser/files communicator/files global/files mozapps/files ...
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Extensions support in SeaMonkey 2 - Archive of obsolete content
...onsmanager.xul permissions manager dialog urls added in 2.1 url in firefox url in seamonkey chrome://browser/content/bookmarks/bookmarkspanel.xul chrome://communicator/content/bookmarks/bm-panel.xul chrome://browser/content/places/places.xul chrome://communicator/content/bookma...rksmanager.xul thunderbird uses mostly the same chrome urls for overlaying as seamonkey.
... for example, if you overlay some chrome before the status bar, like this: <vbox id="browser-bottombox"> <something insertbefore="status-bar" /> </vbox> use the following technique to make your overlay work on both seamonkey 2 and firefox 3: <window id="main-window"> <vbox id="browser-bottombox" insertbefore="status-bar"> <something insertbefore="status-bar" /> </vbox> </window> thunderbird 3 gfolderdisplay api seamonkey 2.0 only supports a reduced set of methods: selectedcount selectedmessage selectedmessageisfeed selectedmessageisimap selectedmessageisnews selectedmessageisexternal selectedindices selectedmessages selectedmessageuris messagedisplay gmessagedisplay api seamonkey 2.0 only supports a reduced set of methods: displayedmessage visible javascript t...
... shorthand expansion cc components.classes ci components.interfaces cr components.results cu components.utils multi-browser compatibility to make an extension compatible with seamonkey as well as firefox/thunderbird, you may need to do different things depending on which application is running the extension.
... in javascript code you can use the following technique to detect the application: const firefox_id = "{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}"; const thunderbird_id = "{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}"; const seamonkey_id = "{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}"; var appinfo = components.classes["@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsixulappinfo); if(appinfo.id == firefox_id) { // running under firefox } else if(appinfo.id == thunderbird_id) { // running under thunderbird } else if(appinfo.id == seamonkey_id) { // running under seamonkey } else { // another app } see using nsixulappinfo for more details.

Isp Data - Archive of obsolete content
this page applies to thunderbird (mail/news).
... introduction these files allow for adding to the new account wizard a new option, and help with, among other things, deployment of custom thunderbird.
...a working install of thunderbird is also handy for testing.
... getting started first take a look at the number of examples available: http://infosec.ufl.edu/tbird/gatorlink.xml mailnews/base/ispdata/aol.rdf see the thunderbird isp hooks for more details.

autocompletesearch - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home autocompletesearch new in thunderbird 2requires seamonkey 1.1 type: space-separated list of values a space-separated list of search component names, each of which implements the nsiautocompletesearch interface.
... mydomain new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 2.0 the user's email domain is suggested.
... gloda new in thunderbird 3 addrbook new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 2.0 the user's address book is searched.
... ldap new in thunderbird 25 requires seamonkey 2.22 the user's ldap directory is searched.

Creating toolbar buttons (Customize Toolbar Window) - Archive of obsolete content
this article explains how to add a toolbar button to a toolkit application (such as firefox, thunderbird, or kompozer) using overlays.
...the dimensions of the icons in various applications for both modes are summarized in the following table (feel free to add information about other applications): application (theme name) big icon size small icon size firefox 1.0 (winstripe) 24x24 16x16 thunderbird 1.0 (qute) 24x24 16x16 the stylesheet to set the image for your toolbar button, use the following css rules: /* skin/toolbar-button.css */ #myextension-button { list-style-image: url("chrome://myextension/skin/btn_large.png"); } toolbar[iconsize="small"] #myextension-button { list-style-image: url("chrome://myextension/skin/btn_small.png"); } applying the stylesheet rem...
...extensions for firefox/thunderbird 1.5 and above should instead use something like this in their chrome.manifest: skin myextension classic/1.0 chrome/skin/ style chrome://global/content/customizetoolbar.xul chrome://myextension/skin/toolbar-button.css ia take note of the packaging section in this article; you may need to include .jar references if you are delivering your extension as an .xpi file.
... a list of commonly overlayed windows with toolbars url application and affected window(s) palette id chrome://browser/content/browser.xul firefox - main window browsertoolbarpalette chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul seamonkey 2.0 - browser window browsertoolbarpalette chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul thunderbird - main window mailtoolbarpalette chrome://messenger/content/messenger...gercompose.xul thunderbird - compose window msgcomposetoolbarpalette chrome://messenger/content/addressbo...ddressbook.xul thunderbird - address book addressbooktoolbarpalette chrome://editor/content/editor.xul kompozer - main window nvutoolbarpalette chrome://calendar/...

Using nsIXULAppInfo - Archive of obsolete content
note that while firefox 1.5, thunderbird 1.5, and xulrunner 1.8-based applications support nsixulappinfo, older applications, such as firefox and thunderbird 1.0, do not support it.
... const firefox_id = "{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}"; const thunderbird_id = "{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}"; const seamonkey_id = "{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}"; var appinfo = components.classes["@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsixulappinfo); if(appinfo.id == firefox_id) { // running under firefox } else if(appinfo.id == thunderbird_id) { // running under thunderbird } else if(appinfo.id...
... == seamonkey_id) { // running under seamonkey } else { // another app } note: you could also use nsixulappinfo.name, which is a human-readable name for the application, such as "firefox", "thunderbird" or "seamonkey", but who knows, maybe they'll rename it again!
... for example, firefox and thunderbird 1.0 stored their id in the app.id preference (and their version in app.version), so you could use code like this to find out what application you're running under: function getappid() { var id; if("@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1" in components.classes) { // running under mozilla 1.8 or later id = components.classes["@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1"] .getservice(components...

2006-11-10 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - november 4-10, 2006 announcements none for this week.
... discussions violation of smtp protocol in thunderbird hector reports two bugs: thunderbird ignores the smtp protocol state machine by ignoring the 501 response codes.
... thunderbird doesn't seem to have an option to set the client domain name (elho/helo).
... interfacing with thunderbird mark bannister is looking for directions on interfacing thunderbird with their project management database.

Gecko versions and application versions
note that after gecko 2.0, both firefox and thunderbird versions are from then on the same as the gecko version number, at gecko 5.0.
... firefox 34, seamonkey 2.31 gecko 33 firefox 33, seamonkey 2.30 gecko 32 firefox 32, seamonkey 2.29 gecko 29 firefox 29, seamonkey 2.26 gecko 28 firefox 28, seamonkey 2.25 gecko 27 firefox 27, seamonkey 2.24 gecko 26 firefox 26, seamonkey 2.23 gecko 25 firefox 25, seamonkey 2.22 gecko 24 firefox 24, thunderbird 24, seamonkey 2.21 gecko 23 firefox 23, seamonkey 2.20 gecko 22 firefox 22, seamonkey 2.19 gecko 21 firefox 21, seamonkey 2.18 gecko 20 firefox 20, seamonkey 2.17 gecko 19 firefox 19, seamonkey 2.16 gecko 18 firefox 18, firefox os 1.0, seamonkey 2.15 gecko 17 firefox 17, thunderbird 17, seamonkey 2.14 gec...
...ko 16 firefox 16, thunderbird 16, seamonkey 2.13 gecko 15 firefox 15, thunderbird 15, seamonkey 2.12 gecko 14 firefox 14, thunderbird 14, seamonkey 2.11 gecko 13 firefox 13, thunderbird 13, seamonkey 2.10 gecko 12 firefox 12, thunderbird 12, seamonkey 2.9 gecko 11 firefox 11, thunderbird 11, seamonkey 2.8 gecko 10 firefox 10, thunderbird 10, seamonkey 2.7 gecko 9 firefox 9, thunderbird 9, seamonkey 2.6 gecko 8 firefox 8, thunderbird 8, seamonkey 2.5 gecko 7 firefox 7, thunderbird 7, seamonkey 2.4 gecko 6 firefox 6, thunderbird 6, seamonkey 2.3 gecko 5 firefox 5, thunderbird 5, seamonkey 2.2 gecko 2 firefox 4, thunderbird 3.3, seamonkey 2.1 gecko 1...
....9.2 firefox 3.6, thunderbird 3.1 gecko 1.9.1 firefox 3.5, thunderbird 3, seamonkey 2.0 gecko 1.9 firefox 3 gecko 1.8.1 firefox 2, thunderbird 2, seamonkey 1.1 gecko 1.8 firefox 1.5, thunderbird 1.5, seamonkey 1.0 gecko 1.7 firefox 1.0, thunderbird 1.0, nvu 1.0, mozilla suite 1.7 older versions of gecko match the mozilla suite versions ...

nsICacheService
66 introduced gecko 1.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) this interface is no longer supported and planned to be removed soon: use nsicachestorageservice instead.
... createtemporaryclientid() obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0)this feature is obsolete.
... init() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) initialize the cache service.
... exceptions thrown missing exception missing description shutdown() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) shutdown() the cache service.

nsIDocShell
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9) implemented by @mozilla.org/docshell;1.
... app_type_mail 1 this is the value of the apptype attribute used by thunderbird and seamonkey to indicate that email messages are displayed in this window.
... app_type_editor 2 this is the value of the apptype attribute used by thunderbird and seamonkey to indicate that email messages or web pages are composed in this window.
... native code only!fireunloadnotification obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0)this feature is obsolete.

nsIEditorSpellCheck
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) implemented by: @mozilla.org/editor/editorspellchecker;1.
... savedefaultdictionary() obsolete since gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6)this feature is obsolete.
... note: this method was removed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6).
...remarks prior to gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6), this method took one parameter, a reference to the nsieditor for which to update the spell checker.

nsIHttpChannel
warning: calling setrequestheader(), setreferrerwithpolicy() or setemptyrequestheader() while visiting request headers has undefined behavior until gecko 47 (firefox 47.0 / thunderbird 47.0 / seamonkey 2.44).
... starting from gecko 48 (firefox 48.0 / thunderbird 48.0 / seamonkey 2.45) they will return a ns_error_failure.
... warning: calling setresponseheader() while visiting response headers has undefined behavior until gecko 48 (firefox 48.0 / thunderbird 48.0 / seamonkey 2.45).
... starting from gecko 49 (firefox 49.0 / thunderbird 49.0 / seamonkey 2.46) it will return a ns_error_failure.

nsIMsgDBHdr
oid setreferences(in string references); acstring getstringreference(in long refnum); void setrecipientsarray(in string names, in string addresses,in unsigned long numaddresses); void setcclistarray(in string names, in string addresses,in unsigned long numaddresses); void setbcclistarray(in string names, in string addresses,in unsigned long numaddresses);new in thunderbird 3.1 [noscript] void getauthorcollationkey(out octetptr key, out unsigned long len); [noscript] void getsubjectcollationkey(out octetptr key, out unsigned long len); [noscript] void getrecipientscollationkey(out octetptr key, out unsigned long len); attributes attribute type description isread boolean readonly: indicates whether or n...
...for the currently selected message, thunderbird provides a utility function: setmsghdrpropertyandreload(aproperty, avalue); which duplicates this functionality without requiring you to grab the current header.
...thunderbird stored uint32 properties (not a complete list): indexed used for spotlight integration on osx.
...thunderbird provides a utility function which performs this for the currently selected message: markcurrentmessageasread().

nsIPlacesImportExportService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11) in the past, this interface also offered methods for importing places data, but those methods are now part of the bookmarkhtmlutils.jsm javascript code module.
... importhtmlfromfile() obsolete since gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11) note: this method has been removed; use the bookmarkhtmlutils.jsm javascript code module instead.
... importhtmlfromfiletofolder() obsolete since gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11) note: this method has been removed; use the bookmarkhtmlutils.jsm javascript code module instead.loads the given bookmarks.html file and puts it in the given folder.
... importhtmlfromuri() obsolete since gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11)this feature is obsolete.

nsITreeView
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 22 (firefox 22 / thunderbird 22 / seamonkey 2.19) implementing a nsitreeview in lieu of dom methods for tree creation can improve performance dramatically, and removes the need to make changes to the tree manually when changes to the database occur.
... candropbeforeafter() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method used by the drag feedback code to determine if a drag is allowable at the current location.
... candropon() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method used by the drag feedback code to determine if a drag is allowable at the current location.
...for example: getrowproperties: function(index) { return "dummy"; } obsolete since gecko 22 (firefox 22 / thunderbird 22 / seamonkey 2.19)this feature is obsolete.

Filelink Providers
filelink is a thunderbird feature that makes it easy for users to upload large attachments to web-based storage services such as hightail.
... this document explains how to extend thunderbird to support additional web-based storage services.
...if the provider is being merged into the comm-central code repository (and thus added to the official thunderbird build), you must also add the components to the cloudfile/cloudfilecomponents.manifest, cloudfile/jar.mn, and installer/package-manifest.in.
... some providers require thunderbird to do very little in order to connect a user to their account.

Adding items to the Folder Pane
the result is a javascript file that will add a "numbers" container to the end of thunderbird's "all folders" mode.
...clicking on those items will display the number in the main viewing pane of thunderbird.
...however, the complete example file includes code to display the number selected in thunderbird's main viewing pane, when such a number is selected in the folder pane.
... a note about the initial rebuild when thunderbird first starts up, the folder pane does an initial rebuild to get the first data it should display.

customDBHeaders Preference
as you follow along the step-by-step guide in creating a custom column, you may want to consider a preference setting that exposes custom header data for use in a custom column within thunderbird's main view.
... while i was going through the creating a custom column guide, i built and used thunderbird-2.0b1 checked-out from cvs with the thunderbird_2_0b1_release tag.
... getting started to build upon the reply-to column tutorial, i'll describe the process i went through in developing a custom column to display a 'superfluous' column within thunderbird's main view.
...nifest (deflated 44%) adding: chrome/content/ (stored 0%) adding: chrome/content/superfluous.js (deflated 57%) adding: chrome/content/superfluous_overlay.xul (deflated 44%) adding: install.rdf (deflated 50%) end result ultimately, you want to be able to compose a message like this: and see the superfluous column displayed in your inbox like this: thanks many thanks go out to the thunderbird developers for the fine product that it is.

DOM Inspector - Firefox Developer Tools
this tool is an add-on for xul-based applications such as firefox and thunderbird.
... getting dom inspector firefox & thunderbird you may download and install the dom inspector from the amo web site.
... (thunderbird users browsing amo in firefox should save the installation link, or visit the dom inspector for thunderbird page.) thunderbird 2 dom inspector for thunderbird 2 is available from thunderbird add-ons.
... or, build thunderbird yourself with the following options: ac_add_options --enable-extensions="default inspector" ac_add_options --enable-inspector-apis mozilla suite and seamonkey select tools > web development > dom inspector.

Working with the History API - Web APIs
note: in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) through gecko 5.0 (firefox 5.0 / thunderbird 5.0 / seamonkey 2.2), the passed object is serialized using json.
... starting in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3), the object is serialized using the structured clone algorithm.
... note: in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) through gecko 5.0 (firefox 5.0 / thunderbird 5.0 / seamonkey 2.2), the passed object is serialized using json.
... starting in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3), the object is serialized using the structured clone algorithm.

Code Samples - Archive of obsolete content
the samples here are designed to work in firefox, thunderbird, sunbird and seamonkey, except where the text says otherwise.
...change the first line to specify the page that you want to open: const url = "http://www.mozilla.org/" document .getelementbyid("content") .webnavigation .loaduri(url, 0, null, null, null) if your button is in thunderbird or sunbird, use code like this to open a web page.
...here are the names and uris of some windows: thunderbird configuration const name = "preferences:configmanager" const uri = "chrome://global/content/config.xul" passwords const name = "toolkit:passwordmanager" const uri = chrome://messenger/content/preferenc...wpasswords.xul" mail & newsgroups const name = "mail:3pane" const uri = "chrome://messenger/content...

SeaMonkey - making custom toolbar (SM ver. 1.x) - Archive of obsolete content
(for seamonkey 2, firefox, thunderbird and sunbird, see the page: custom toolbar button) you do not need any special technical skills or tools, and almost all the information you need is on this page.
...seamonkey 2 is being reworked to support the same process as firefox, thunderbird and others.
... note: for a similar tutorial that applies to seamonkey 2, firefox, thunderbird and sunbird, see: custom toolbar button earlier versions and other mozilla applications also support extensions, but some parts of this tutorial are not appropriate for them.

Archived Mozilla and build documentation - Archive of obsolete content
they are currently written with mostly firefox in mind, but most if not all should easily translate to seamonkey, thunderbird or any of the other applications.
... for thunderbird, you may also find the extension howto or faq pages helpful.
... xulrunner xulrunner is a mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap xul+xpcom applications that are as rich as firefox and thunderbird.

2006-10-06 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - september 30-october 06, 2006 announcements mac user needed scott macgregor announced that .mac support and a dynamically add isp account feature has been added to the thunderbird account manager, however, testing is required before release can be issued.
... discussions is thunderbird using a valid w3c coding?
... a: robert helmer pointed out the mozilla.org's config file could be found here and to look for -->mozconfig<---------------------------------------- -->end mozconfig<---------------------------------------- updated: developer documentation issues for thunderbird 2 eric shepherd has requested feedback for any developer documentation issues that might need dealing with for thunderbird 2.

2006-10-27 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - october 21-27, 2006 announcements none for this week.
... discussions effect of eudora/thunderbird re-write joes is voicing a concern about the recent announcement regarding the eudora/thunderbird rewrite: "is thunderbird destined to become a hybrid of the existing code and eudora?".
... jonathan pritchard has clarified that announcement does not mean thunderbird will be changing direction, just certain areas of development that are of interest to the eudora developers will have more attention paid to them.

omni.ja (formerly omni.jar)
firefox and thunderbird achieve performance improvements by moving many of their internal parts from being standalone files or sets of jar files into just one jar file called omni.ja; this reduces the amount of i/o needed to load the application.
... note: starting with firefox 10 and thunderbird 10, the file extension .ja is used because windows system restore does not back up files with the .jar extension, but it does back up .ja files.
... note: prior to firefox 10 and thunderbird 10, omni.ja was called omni.jar.

Simple Sunbird build
instead it is suggested to build thunderbird with lightning.
... please refer to the simple thunderbird build guide.
...see this section for information on how to easily integrate lightning into a nightly version of thunderbird.

Obsolete Build Caveats and Tips
windows vista sdk obsolete since gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9)this feature is obsolete.
...features that depend on this sdk include: windows vista parental controls file associations and application registration on vista and above ability to display the uac shield icon in the ui thunderbird windows search integration text services framework support there are two ways to obtain it: download the windows vista sdk from the microsoft download center.
... windows server 2003 r2 platform sdk obsolete since gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9)this feature is obsolete.

Runtime Directories
~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxxxxxx.default/ n/d thunderbird os application directory user profile directory temporary directory windows vista/7 c:\program files\mozilla thunderbird\ c:\users\<username>\appdata\roaming\thunderbird\ (or %appdata%\thunderbird\) c:\users\<username>\appdata\local\thunderbird\ (or %localappdata%\thunderbird\) and c:\users\<username>\appdata\local\virtualstore\program files\mozilla...
... thunderbird\ windows 2000/xp c:\program files\mozilla thunderbird\ c:\documents and settings\<username>\application data\thunderbird\ (or %appdata%\thunderbird\) c:\documents and settings\<username>\local settings\application data\thunderbird\ os x /applications/thunderbird.app ~/library/thunderbird/profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/ ~/library/caches/thunderbird/profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/ linux ????
... ~/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/ (or ~/.mozilla-thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/ on debian/ubuntu) n/d see also https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data#w_how-do-i-find-my-profile https://support.mozilla.org/kb/profiles-tb#w_where-is-my-profile-stored http://kb.mozillazine.org/profile_folder ...

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2 application translation with mercurial android, draft, editing, firefox, lightning, localization, mercurial, seamonkey, translate, patch, thunderbird first, get the required programs to compile mozilla applications like firefox and thunderbird from build instructions.
...localizing current versions of firefox, thunderbird and seamonkey includes working with mercurial.
...the steps below are fairly generic; for the most part they apply to creating l10n patches for firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, or calendar.

Signing Mozilla apps for Mac OS X
firefox and thunderbird releases are both signed before shipping; this article describes the process.
... signing mozilla apps without the signing server firefox and thunderbird are built using mozilla's release automation infrastructure.
... the coderesources file used to sign official firefox and thunderbird builds is available in mozilla-central.

STEEL
steel is deprecated and will be removed as of thunderbird 52.
... consider using the functions found in appconstants.jsm or services.jsm instead steel is the scriptable thunderbird easy extension library.
... it is a fuel-like set of interfaces to facilitate thunderbird extension development.

extIApplication
this content covers features introduced in thunderbird 3 the extiapplication is defined in toolkit/components/exthelper/extiapplication.idl.
... implemented via xpcom service for extiapplication: see the instructions on the fuel (firefox), steel (thunderbird) and smile (seamonkey) pages.
...the object needs to be accessed like any other xpcom service: var application = components.classes["@mozilla.org/fuel/application;1"].getservice(components.interfaces.fueliapplication); see also fuel (firefox), steel (thunderbird) and smile (seamonkey) ...

extIExtension
this content covers features introduced in thunderbird 3 the extiextension interface represents an extension.
... implemented via xpcom service for extiapplication: see the instructions on the fuel (firefox), steel (thunderbird) and smile (seamonkey) pages.
...also, see the fuel (firefox), steel (thunderbird) and smile (seamonkey) pages.

extIPreferenceBranch
this content covers features introduced in thunderbird 3 the extipreferencebranch interface provides simplified access to preferences.
... implemented via xpcom service for extiapplication: see the instructions on the fuel (firefox), steel (thunderbird) and smile (seamonkey) pages.
... see bug 481044 void reset() parameters return value examples var myext = application.extensions.get('myapplicationid'); function myfunc (event) { application.console.log('change!'); }; myext.prefs.get("myprefname").events.addlistener("change", myfunc); see also fuel (firefox), steel (thunderbird) and smile (seamonkey) known issues bug 488587 - function registered as fuel preference listener not always called ...

extISessionStorage
this content covers features introduced in thunderbird 3 extisessionstorage allows an extension to store data for the life time of the application (e.g.
... implemented via xpcom service for extiapplication: see the instructions on the fuel (firefox), steel (thunderbird) and smile (seamonkey) pages.
... see also fuel (firefox), steel (thunderbird) and smile (seamonkey) ...

mozIVisitInfoCallback
toolkit/components/places/public/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface provides callback handling functionality for moziasynchistory.updateplaces() 1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) method overview void handleerror(in nsresult aresultcode, in moziplaceinfo aplaceinfo); void handleresult(in moziplaceinfo aplaceinfo); void oncomplete(in nsresult aresultcode, in moziplaceinfo aplaceinfo);obsolete since gecko 8.0 methods handleerror() called when a moziplaceinfo couldn't be processed.
... oncomplete() obsolete since gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) called for each visit added, title change, or guid change when passed to moziasynchistory.updateplaces().
... notes this method was replaced by the separate handleresult() and handleerror() methods in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5).

nsIAccessibleDocument
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) you can queryinterface to nsiaccessibledocument from the nsiaccessible or nsiaccessnode for the root node of a document.
... methods getaccessibleinparentchain() obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) returns the first accessible parent of a dom node.
... native code only!getcachedaccessnode obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.

nsIDNSService
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/network/dns-service;1.
... init() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) called to initialize the dns service.
... shutdown() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) called to shutdown the dns service.

nsIDOMWindowUtils
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 49.0 (firefox 49.0 / thunderbird 49.0 / seamonkey 2.46) implemented by: window.
... processupdates() obsolete since gecko 13.0 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10) force processing of any queued paints.
... aignorerootscrollframe optional sendmousescrollevent() obsolete since gecko 17.0 (firefox 17.0 / thunderbird 17.0 / seamonkey 2.14)this feature is obsolete.

nsIDownloadProgressListener
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) to use simply implement this interface in your code, then call nsidownloadmanager.addlistener() to start listening.
... onlocationchange() obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) void onlocationchange( in nsiwebprogress awebprogress, in nsirequest arequest, in nsiuri alocation, in nsidownload adownload ); parameters awebprogress the nsiwebprogress instance used by the download manager to monitor downloads.
... onstatuschange() obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) called when the status of a download request has changed.

nsIJSON
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) note: this interface may only be used from javascript code, with the exception of the legacydecodetojsval() method.
...deprecated since gecko 2.0 methods decode() obsolete since gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) decodes a json string, returning the javascript object it represents.
... encode() obsolete since gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) encodes a javascript object into a json string.

nsIMemoryReporter
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) any piece of code that wishes to allow its memory use to be monitored may create an nsimemoryreporter object and then register it by calling nsimemoryreportermanager.registerreporter().
... note: this attribute was called memoryused prior to gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4), and its type was long long.
... unit type constants requires gecko 7.0(firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) the amount reported by a memory reporter may use one of the following units.

nsIMsgCustomColumnHandler
it can be used in the thunderbird threadpane for extensions to overlay their own columns.
...r) { return ""; }, isstring: function() {return true;}, getcellproperties: function(arow, acol, aprops) { }, getrowproperties: function(arow, aprops) { }, getimagesrc: function(arow, acol) {return null;}, getsortlongforrow: function(ahdr) {return 0;} } to attach it use the nsimsgdbview.addcolumnhandler() method (recall gdbview is the global nsimsgdbview in thunderbird): gdbview.addcolumnhandler("newcolumn", columnhandler); after which it can be retrieved using the nsimsgdbview.getcolumnhandler() method: var handler = gdbview.getcolumnhandler("newcolumn"); and removed using the nsimsgdbview.removecolumnhandler() method: gdbview.removecolumnhandler("newcolumn"); method overview astring getsortstringforrow(in nsimsgdbhdr ahdr); unsigned long getsortlon...
...see also extensions:thunderbird:creating_a_custom_column ...

nsINavHistoryObserver
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 21.0 (firefox 21.0 / thunderbird 21.0 / seamonkey 2.18) warning: if you are in the middle of a batch transaction, there may be a database transaction active.
... methods onbeforedeleteuri() obsolete since gecko 21.0 (firefox 21.0 / thunderbird 21.0 / seamonkey 2.18) note: this method was removed in gecko 21.0 as part of bug 826409.
... onpageexpired() obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) note: this method was removed in gecko 2.0.

Component; nsIPrefBranch
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 58 (firefox 58 / thunderbird 58 / seamonkey 2.55) this object is created with a "root" value which describes the base point in the preferences "tree" from which this "branch" stems.
... getstringpref() requires gecko 58 (firefox 58 / thunderbird 58 / seamonkey 2.55) called to get the state of an individual utf-8 string preference.
... setstringpref() requires gecko 58 (firefox 58 / thunderbird 58 / seamonkey 2.55) called to set the state of an individual utf-8 string preference.

nsIPrincipal
inherits from: nsiserializable last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) for details on principals, how they work, and how to get the appropriate one, see security check basics.
... note: prior to gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1), this was not available to scripts.
... note: prior to gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1), this was not available to scripts.

nsISelectionPrivate
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 35 (firefox 35 / thunderbird 35 / seamonkey 2.32) warning: the content of this article may be out of date.
... native code only!getrangesforintervalcomarray obsolete since gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9)this feature is obsolete.
... this method became obsolete in gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9).

nsISmsRequestManager
nsismsrequestmanager dom/sms/interfaces/nsismsrequestmanager.idlscriptable used to manage sms related requests and notifications for the websms api 1.0 66 introduced gecko 13.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 15.0 (firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) implemented by: @mozilla.org/sms/smsrequestmanager;1.
... notifymarkedmessageread() requires gecko 15.0(firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) void notifymarkedmessageread( in long arequestid in bool aread ); parameters arequestid a number representing the id of the request.
... notifymarkmessagereadfailed() requires gecko 15.0(firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) void notifymarkmessagereadfailed( in long arequestid in long aerror ); parameters arequestid a number representing the id of the request.

nsIToolkitProfileService
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) note: starting in gecko 1.9.1, this service is implemented by @mozilla.org/toolkit/profile-service;1.
...to access the built-in profile manager in versions of firefox up to 4.0 and thunderbird up to 3.3 you can launch with the -profilemanager command line flag.
...os.file is available from gecko 18 (firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15).

nsIXULAppInfo
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) in xulrunner applications nsixulappinfo obtains app-specific information from application.ini.
...this must be ascii, and is normally mixed-case, for example "firefox", "thunderbird" or "seamonkey".
...ses["@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsixulappinfo); alert("application version: " + info.version + "\n" + "gecko version: " + info.platformversion); example this example here uses nsixulappinfo to get the version of the current browser and then compares it: example - compare current browser version see also using nsixulappinfo nsixulruntime get thunderbird version firefox code snippets ...

Creating a gloda message query
this content covers features introduced in thunderbird 3 this page describes how to programmatically create a message query using gloda, thunderbird's global database.
...from https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/mozilla/thunderbird/thunderbird_extensions/demo_addon, demo3, it seems that the attributename given in these files is the constraintname to be used (e.g.
...an nsimsgdbhdr is the low-level, old-school, thunderbird xpcom representation of a message.

Creating a Custom Column
one of the new and exciting features available to thunderbird extension developers in thunderbird 2.0 is the ability to easily create and handle custom columns in thunderbird's main view.
...if you are unfamiliar with the setup and creation of an extension please read building a thunderbird extension.
...the following is a list of functions that must be implemented to ensure that your extension works well with thunderbird.

Demo Addon
warning: this content is for older versions of thunderbird.
...see developer.thunderbird.net for newer information.
... how to use after installing the demo add-on in thunderbird, right click on the toolbar and choose "customize".

Add Option to Context Menu
assuming this on chrome.manifest: overlay chrome://messenger/content/mailwindowoverlay.xul chrome://myext/content/thunderbird-overlay.xul add the next in thunderbird-overlay.xul.
... for thunderbird 2 <?xml version="1.0"?> <overlay id="sample" xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"> <menupopup id="messagepanecontext"> <menuitem id="my_option" label="my option concise and cool label" oncommand="alert('hi')"/> </menupopup> </overlay> for thunderbird 3 <?xml version="1.0"?> <overlay id="sample" xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"> <popup id="mailcontext"> <menuitem id="my_option" label="my option concise and cool label" oncommand="alert('hi')"/> </popup> </overlay> for thunderbird 2 and 3 in the same xpi if our extension needs to support thunderbird 2 and 3 we need to make custom...
... note: if our extension supports more mozilla applications (for example mozilla firefox and mozilla thunderbird) we need also specify application flag.

Attr - Web APIs
get="_top"><rect x="266" y="1" width="75" height="50" fill="#f4f7f8" stroke="#d4dde4" stroke-width="2px" /><text x="303.5" y="30" font-size="12px" font-family="consolas,monaco,andale mono,monospace" fill="#4d4e53" text-anchor="middle" alignment-baseline="middle">attr</text></a></svg></div> a:hover text { fill: #0095dd; pointer-events: all;} warning: starting in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4), a number of deprecated properties and methods output warning messages to the console.
... gecko outputs a deprecation note starting from gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4).
... this note was removed again in gecko 49.0 (firefox 49.0 / thunderbird 49.0 / seamonkey 2.46).

Node.cloneNode() - Web APIs
*note: in the dom4 specification (since gecko 13.0 (firefox 13 / thunderbird 13 / seamonkey 2.10)), the optional deep argument defaults to true.
... with gecko 28.0 (firefox 28 / thunderbird 28 / seamonkey 2.25 / firefox os 1.3)), the console warned developers not to omit the argument.
... starting with gecko 29.0 (firefox 29 / thunderbird 29 / seamonkey 2.26)), a shallow clone is defaulted instead of a deep clone.

Modules - Archive of obsolete content
we will show how to do each of these things using the built-in components object provided by xulrunner application such as firefox and thunderbird.
...applications such as firefox and thunderbird are based on xulrunner.

cfx - Archive of obsolete content
you can specify "firefox", "xulrunner", "fennec", or "thunderbird".
...you can specify "firefox", "xulrunner", "fennec", or "thunderbird".

Dialogs and Prompts - Archive of obsolete content
help — help button (doesn't work in thunderbird 1.0 bug 256915) extra1, extra2 — two buttons without any predefined labels or meaning.
...to get an idea of what it looks like, open options (or preferences) dialog in firefox or thunderbird (v1.0 and earlier only).

JavaScript Debugger Service - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 33 (firefox 33 / thunderbird 33 / seamonkey 2.30) this feature is obsolete.
... in firefox versions prior to gecko 33 (firefox 33 / thunderbird 33 / seamonkey 2.30), the javascript debugger service (or simply jsd) used to be an xpcom component that allows the tracking of javascript while it was being executed in the browser.

Miscellaneous - Archive of obsolete content
2.0.0.1 retrieving the version of an extension as specified in the extension's install.rdf components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/addonmanager.jsm"); addonmanager.getaddonbyid("extension-guid@example.org", function(addon) { // this is an asynchronous callback function that might not be called immediately alert("my extension's version is " + addon.version); }); restarting firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey_2.0 for firefox 3 see onwizardfinish around here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/sou...pdates.js#1639 for firefox 2 see around here: http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla1.8/so...pdates.js#1631 bug 338039 tracks improving this situation by providing a simple method to restart the application.
...getbrowserselection() is not implemented on some platforms, such as thunderbird and songbird.

Developing add-ons - Archive of obsolete content
this page will help guide you to the information you need in order to create add-ons for firefox, thunderbird, or other software based on the mozilla platform, as well as how to distribute your add-ons.
... extensions extensions add new functionality to mozilla applications such as firefox, seamonkey and thunderbird.

Extension Etiquette - Archive of obsolete content
don't be redundant and include "extension," "mozilla/firefox/thunderbird," or the version number in the name.
... ids firefox/thunderbird 1.5 or later are much more strict about the ids of extensions than their 1.0 counterparts.

Multiple item extension packaging - Archive of obsolete content
for the firefox and thunderbird 1.5 extension manager to determine that the package is a multiple item package, the em:type specified in your install.rdf must be 32 and specified as <em:type nc:parsetype="integer">32</em:type>.
... for the firefox and thunderbird 2.0 extension manager you can use the above syntax or <em:type>32</em:type> as shown below.

Chapter 3: Introduction to XUL—How to build a more intuitive UI - Archive of obsolete content
xul display methods xul is used almost exclusively in mozilla applications like firefox and thunderbird, and extensions for them, but other web browsers based on firefox or the gecko engine, and even web-based content also used xul.
....0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="chrome://global/skin/"?> <!doctype window system "chrome://testapp/locale/testapp.dtd"> <window xmlns="http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"> <button label="&button.1.label;"/> <button label="&button.2.label;"/> </window> listing 26: reading in external entities <!entity button.1.label "firefox"> <!entity button.2.label "thunderbird"> listing 27: testapp.dtd substituting css for attribute declarations the gecko rendering engine includes a number of css properties with -moz- prepended to them; these are custom properties for xul that have been implemented prior to being a w3c recommendation.

Getting Started with Firefox Extensions - Archive of obsolete content
extensions add new functionality to mozilla applications such as firefox and thunderbird.
...this tutorial focuses on extensions for firefox, but the same (or very similar) principles apply to creating extensions for other applications such as thunderbird, seamonkey, and flock.

Mozilla Documentation Roadmap - Archive of obsolete content
there are several useful feeds that you can follow using a feed reader, such as thunderbird.
...thunderbird also comes in handy for reading and posting to the newsgroups.

Tabbed browser - Archive of obsolete content
notification when a tab's attributes change requires gecko 2.0(firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) starting in gecko 2.0, you can detect when a tab's attributes change by listening for the tabattrmodified event.
...nt.target; // now you can check what's changed on the tab } // during initialization var container = gbrowser.tabcontainer; container.addeventlistener("tabattrmodified", exampletabattrmodified, false); // when no longer needed container.removeeventlistener("tabattrmodified", exampletabattrmodified, false); notification when a tab is pinned or unpinned requires gecko 2.0(firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) starting in gecko 2.0, tabs can be "pinned"; that is, they become special application tabs ("app tabs"), which are pinned to the beginning of the tab bar, and show only the favicon.

Add-ons - Archive of obsolete content
firefox or thunderbird) uses to determine information about an add-on as it is being installed.
...these details apply to firefox, thunderbird, and seamonkey (version 2.0 and above).

Index of archived content - Archive of obsolete content
open merging tracemonkey repo spidermonkey coding conventions autodial for windows nt automated testing tips and tricks automatic mozilla configurator enabling quicklaunch for all users how mozilla finds its configuration files how thunderbird and firefox find their configuration files introduction kill the xul.mfl file for good locked config settings other mozilla customization pages protecting mozilla's registry.dat file automatically handle failed asserts in debug builds blackconnect blackwood bonsai b...
... mozilla-dev-apps-firefox 2006-09-29 2006-10-06 2006-10-13 2006-10-20 2006-10-26 2006-10-27 2006-11-03 2006-11-04 2006-11-10 2006-11-17 2006-11-24 2006-12-01 mozilla-dev-apps-thunderbird 2006-09-29 2006-10-06 2006-10-13 2006-10-20 2006-10-27 2006-11-03 2006-11-10 2006-11-17 2006-11-24 2006-12-01 mozilla-dev-builds 2006-09-29 2006-10-06 2006-10-13 ...

Install.js - Archive of obsolete content
to make your extension install in mozilla suite, seamonkey, mozilla firefox pre-0.9 and mozilla thunderbird pre-0.7, you need to have an install.js file in the root of your xpi file.
... if you want your extension to install in firefox 0.9 and later and/or thunderbird 0.7 and later only, you don't need install.js, you need an install.rdf instead.

Structure of an installable bundle - Archive of obsolete content
platform-specific files gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) removed support for platform-specific subdirectories, described below.
...to facilitate the first case, the extension/app loader has special sub-directories specifically for platform-specific files (starting with toolkit/gecko 1.8, firefox/thunderbird 1.5).

Extension Frequently Asked Questions - Archive of obsolete content
they are currently written with mostly firefox in mind, but most if not all should easily translate to seamonkey, thunderbird or any of the other applications.
... for thunderbird, you may also find the extension howto or faq pages helpful.

Downloading Nightly or Trunk Builds - Archive of obsolete content
for the trunk and the latest two branches, there are machines at mozilla and maybe elsewhere compiling builds as fast as they can make them for at least all three of firefox, thunderbird and seamonkey on all three of linux-i686, mac-universalbinary and win32.
...for instance, one may use a thunderbird "branch nightly" as one's main e-mail client.

Introducing the Audio API extension - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 28 (firefox 28 / thunderbird 28 / seamonkey 2.25 / firefox os 1.3)this feature is obsolete.
... deprecated since gecko 22 (firefox 22 / thunderbird 22 / seamonkey 2.19)this feature has been removed from the web standards.

How to Write and Land Nanojit Patches - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 11 (firefox 11 / thunderbird 11 / seamonkey 2.8)this feature is obsolete.
...nanojit was removed during the development of (firefox 11 / thunderbird 11 / seamonkey 2.8), so this information is relevant to earlier versions of the codebase.

When To Use ifdefs - Archive of obsolete content
the mozilla codebase is used for many different projects and products, including firefox, thunderbird, xulrunner, and many others.
...this rule has many exceptions, some of which are listed here: the code in editor/ui/ is built by the suite, standalone composer, and thunderbird, but it is considered application-specific.

enablehistory - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home note: for seamonkey 2.0 and all versions of thunderbird prior to 3.0 you also need to provide the disablehistory attribute.
... enablehistory new in thunderbird 1requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean if true, an arrow button will appear on the end of the textbox which, when pressed, will open a dropdown menu of all available results.

minresultsforpopup - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home minresultsforpopup new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: integer the minimum number of results that must be returned for the popup to be displayed.
...new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 a zero value will always open the popup.

textbox.disablehistory - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home disablehistory obsolete since gecko 2.0 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif false, an arrow button will appear on the end of the textbox which will open a dropdown menu of all available results.
...this attribute only works correctly in seamonkey 1.x; for thunderbird and seamonkey 2.0 you should also set the enablehistory attribute; as of gecko 2.0 this attribute is completely superseded by it.

textbox.onblur - Archive of obsolete content
from gecko 1.9 to gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9), the script code would actually execute twice, once in the context of the anonymous html <input> element and once in the context of the <textbox> element itself.
... as of gecko 13.0 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10), the script code only runs in the context of the <textbox> element, matching the behavior of all other event handlers.

textbox.onfocus - Archive of obsolete content
from gecko 1.9 to gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9), the script code would actually execute twice, once in the context of the anonymous html <input> element and once in the context of the <textbox> element itself.
... as of gecko 13.0 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10), the script code only runs in the context of the <textbox> element, matching the behavior of all other event handlers.

popup - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference popup new in thunderbird 14 requires seamonkey 2.11 type: popup element should be set to the popup element that should appear when the user clicks on the textbox.
... note: this property is readonly in thunderbird and seamonkey.

Complete - Archive of obsolete content
this page is for readers who have followed the custom toolbar button tutorial for firefox, thunderbird and sunbird, or the custom toolbar button:seamonkey tutorial for seamonkey, and who want to learn more about developing extensions.
...it supports firefox, thunderbird, sunbird and flock—these are referred to as "firefox etc." in the rest of this page.

Window icons - Archive of obsolete content
starting with firefox 1.5, thunderbird 1.5, and xulrunner 1.8, you can specify an icon for a xul window by putting files named mywindow.ico (for windows) and mywindow.xpm or mywindow16.xpm (linux), where mywindow is the id of the <window> you want to attach the icon to, in the chrome/icons/default subfolder of your bundle.
... starting with firefox 3.0, xulrunner 3.0, thunderbird 3.0 and seamonkey 2.0 you can now specify png format icons instead of xpm format on linux.

XUL accessibility tool - Archive of obsolete content
the version currently on xulplanet is compatible with the following xul applications: firefox 1.5+ thunderbird 3.0a+ recent sunbird builds recent songbird builds.
... run checking tool on firefox, thunderbird and other apps looking for bugs and fixing them.

2006-09-29 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - september 22-29, 2006 announcements development for thunderjudge extension is put on hold the author of the thunderjudge extension is currently putting the development of the extension on hold due to several issues (more details available at the website).
... discussions developer documentation issues for thunderbird 2 eric shepherd has requested feedback for any developer documentation issues that might need dealing with for thunderbird 2.

2006-10-20 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - october 14-20, 2006 announcements eudora goes open source both qualcomm and mozilla will participate in enhancing the capabilities and ease of use of both eudora and thunderbird.
... stefan göppert suspect thunderbird inserts a wrong char("") in the bcc-field and want to confirm this issue.

2006-11-24 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - november 18 - 24, 2006 announcements none for this week discussions issues with 2.0 features there's renewed discussion on why certain features were removed in the 2.0 release, and the addition of support for s/mime and not pgp/gpg encryption.
... thunderbird losing emails tb seems to be deleting mail folders when they reach 4gb in size.

2006-10-06 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.builds - september 30th to october 6th 2006 tb mozilla_1_8_branch build problem on mac os x (10.4.7, universal build) ludwig hügelschäfer stated that he has been encountering an error when he executes a "make export" operation on thunderbird (part of the mozilla_1_8_branch) since september 15th.
...he then was able to successfully build thunderbird.

2006-10-20 - Archive of obsolete content
nsis and my extension jan vávra is wondering how he could create a win32 installer of thunderbird that when executed, it would also install his extensions of choice.
... in jan vávra's case he is modifying the thunderbird installer so he needs to modify "mail/installer/windows/packages-static" announcements decommissioning sparky on friday on october 17th j.

2006-10-06 - Archive of obsolete content
thunderbird 2 - beta/rc?
... johannes koch asks where is the thunderbird roadmap?

2006-10-06 - Archive of obsolete content
problem looping c_opensession problem in thunderbird christian bongiorno has run into a problem developing a pkcs11 module for a new card.
... thunderbird is continuously repeating 7 functions including c_opensession which accesses the card that he is developing.

Shipping a plugin as a Toolkit bundle - Archive of obsolete content
platform-specific files gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6) and earlier prior to gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1), it was possible to package multiple plugin libraries for different operating systems into a single xpi bundle.
...gecko 2.0 (firefox 4) and later gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) removed support for platform-specific subdirectories.

Making sure your theme works with RTL locales - Archive of obsolete content
of the languages firefox and thunderbird are shipped in, that includes arabic and hebrew, with persian available as beta, for a total population in excess of 100 million potential users.
... gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5) and earlier the chromedir attribute firefox, thunderbird and seamonkey expose an attribute named chromedir on certain elements.

Gecko info for Windows accessibility vendors
definitions here are some basic definitions that you'll need for this document to make sense: gecko: the rendering engine for firefox, thunderbird, nvu, mozilla seamonkey and other applications.
... firefox (please use version 1.1 alpha builds or later) thunderbird (please use version 1.1 alpha builds or later) mozilla seamonkey (please use 1.8 alpha builds or later) how to find the content window and load the document screen readers need to find the content window so that they know where to start grabbing the msaa tree, in order to load the current document into a buffer in their own process.

What to do and what not to do in Bugzilla
mozilla applications like the application suite, thunderbird, or firefox share most of their program code and all of the backend code including things like network connectivity (ftp, http, imap) and html rendering.
... make sure that you also test thunderbird or firefox bugs with the application suite and move the bug to one of the core products, if the bug also exists in the application suite.

Chrome registration
firefox 2, thunderbird 2, and seamonkey 1.1 will not find the chrome when packagename is mixed case.
...firefox 3, thunderbird 3, and seamonkey 2 support mixed case.

Cookies Preferences in Mozilla
new in thunderbird 3 this preference is applicable to thunderbird 3 and later.
... earlier versions of thunderbird only allowed cookies on rss feeds.

Creating a Firefox sidebar
the document might be obsolete, though.obsolete since gecko 57 the social api obsolete since gecko 57 (firefox 57 / thunderbird 57 / seamonkey 2.54)this feature is obsolete.
... the window.sidebar api obsolete since gecko 23 (firefox 23 / thunderbird 23 / seamonkey 2.20)this feature is obsolete.

Creating a spell check dictionary add-on
d, em:description, em:creator, em:developer, em:translator, em:contributor or em:homepageurl --> <!-- firefox --> <em:targetapplication> <description> <em:id>{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}</em:id> <em:minversion>18.0a1</em:minversion> <em:maxversion>46.0</em:maxversion> </description> </em:targetapplication> <!-- thunderbird --> <em:targetapplication> <description> <em:id>{3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6}</em:id> <em:minversion>18.0a1</em:minversion> <em:maxversion>22.0</em:maxversion> </description> </em:targetapplication> <!-- seamonkey --> <em:targetapplication> <description> <em:id>{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}</em:id> ...
...if you set em:minversion to a lower value, gecko 10-17 will not be able to update your dictionary add-on once the restartless dictionary is installed (bug 782118), and gecko 10-16 may warn the user that your dictionary is not compatible, when users try to update to a newer version of firefox/thunderbird (bug 782115).

Debugging on Mac OS X
this document explains how to debug mozilla-derived applications such as firefox, thunderbird, and seamonkey on macos using xcode.
... if you are debugging firefox, thunderbird, or some other application that supports multiple profiles, using a separate profile for debugging purposes is recommended.

Simple Instantbird build
this should be kept in sync with simple thunderbird build, you might want to take a look at that page too.
... references general build documentation comm-central simple thunderbird build ...

Displaying Places information using views
in firefox 3.6 and earlier requires gecko 1.9.2(firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) create a built-in menu view by setting the type attribute to "places" on an empty menupopup element (which would be a child of some parent menu element): <menu> <menupopup type="places" /> </menu> the place attribute or property should be set on the menupopup as well.
... in firefox 4 and later requires gecko 2.0(firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) you can add places information to a popup like this: <menu id="bookmarksmenu"> <menupopup placespopup="true"> onpopupshowing="if (!document.getelementbyid('bookmarksmenu')._placesview) new placesmenu(event, 'place:folder=bookmarks_menu');" </menupopup> </menu> the menu view is implemented in browser/components/places/content/menu.xml.

Using workers in JavaScript code modules
it works exactly like a standard worker, except that it has access to js-ctypes via a global ctypes object available in the global scope of the worker obsolete since gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5)this feature is obsolete.
... note: as of gecko 8.0, the nsiworkerfactory interface has been removed starting in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1), you can use workers in javascript code modules (jsms).

Translation phase
thunderbird enjoy safe, fast and easy email, mozilla-style.
... the thunderbird® email client includes intelligent spam filters, powerful search and customizable views.

What every Mozilla translator should know
illa source + en-us localization files for [ab-cd] locale corresponding firefox version branches in hg mozilla-central l10n-central firefox.next (trunk) mozilla-1.9.2 l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 firefox 3.6 mozilla-1.9.1 l10n-mozilla-1.9.1 firefox 3.5 and, on the former revision control system, cvs: cvs trunk (the default branch) -> firefox/thunderbird 3.0.x branch mozilla_1_8_branch -> firefox/thunderbird 2.0 branch mozilla cross-reference mozilla cross-reference is a web site mirroring the content of the hg server.
...in this case the resultant installable file will be available in the mozilla ftp servers: firefox nightly builds thunderbird nightly builds qa (quality assurance) in order to assure the quality of a build we should make some tests using http://litmus.mozilla.org ...

MathML Accessibility in Mozilla
we started exposing generic accessible objects for mathml in bug 920547 and so these can be retrieved by nvda starting with gecko 27.0 (firefox 27.0 / thunderbird 27.0 / seamonkey 2.24).
...hence basic support is available in gecko 41.0 (firefox 41.0 / thunderbird 41.0 / seamonkey 2.38) and we are still trying to keep in sync with webkit/voiceover.

mail.tabs.drawInTitlebar
starting in thunderbird 17.0, the tabs are drawn in the title bar.
... type:boolean default value: true exists by default: yes application support:thunderbird 17.0 status: active; last updated 2012-09-17 introduction: pushed to daily on 2012-08-08 bugs: bug 771816 values true (default) the tabs are drawn in the title bar of the mail program.

Leak And Bloat Tests
manually running tests setting up build set up build thunderbird or seamonkey with your standard mozconfig file, but with the following options set: ac_add_options --enable-debug ac_add_options --enable-trace-malloc running the tests in your <objdir> run the following command: make mailbloat this will run the tests and produce some result files.
...1"); user_pref("mail.startup.enabledmailcheckonce", true); user_pref("mailnews.start_page_override.mstone", "1.9pre"); user_pref("mail.shell.checkdefaultclient", false); // ensure os x and outlook/oe books are disabled user_pref("ldap_2.servers.osx.position", 0); user_pref("ldap_2.servers.oe.position", 0); preferences in generated profile, but not set: user_pref("mail.root.none", "/home/moztest/.thunderbird/t7i1txfw.minimum/mail"); user_pref("mail.root.pop3", "/home/moztest/.thunderbird/t7i1txfw.minimum/mail"); user_pref("mail.server.server1.directory", "/home/moztest/.thunderbird/t7i1txfw.minimum/mail/local folders"); user_pref("mail.server.server2.directory", "/home/moztest/.thunderbird/t7i1txfw.minimum/mail/tinderbox"); user_pref("mail.attachment.store.version", 1); user_pref("mail.folder.views.v...

MailNews automated testing
these tests are run against almost every changeset that gets committed to the thunderbird and seamonkey code bases.
... performance testing mail leak and bloat tests these tests start up thunderbird or seamonkey and record any leaks found, as well as the total memory requirement.

MailNews
mailnews is the back end of the messaging parts of seamonkey and thunderbird.
... asynctestutils extended framework the asynctestutils extended framework is one mechanism for testing the mailnews component of thunderbird.

NSS 3.47 release notes
in tstclnt and selfserv bug 1581024 - heap overflow in nss utility "derdump" bug 1582343 - soft token mac verification not constant time bug 1578238 - handle invald tag sizes for ckm_aes_gcm bug 1576295 - check all bounds when encrypting with seed_cbc bug 1580286 - nss rejects tls 1.2 records with large padding with sha384 hmac bug 1577448 - create additional nested s/mime test messages for thunderbird bug 1399095 - allow nss-try to be used to test nspr changes bug 1267894 - libssl should allow selecting the order of cipher suites in clienthello bug 1581507 - fix unportable grep expression in test scripts bug 1234830 - [cid 1242894][cid 1242852] unused values bug 1580126 - fix build failure on aarch64_be while building freebl/gcm bug 1385039 - build nspr tests as part of nss continuous in...
... bug 1542207 - limit policy check on signature algorithms to known algorithms bug 1560329 - drbg: add continuous self-test on entropy source bug 1579290 - asan builds should disable lsan while building bug 1385061 - build nspr tests with nss make; add gyp parameters to build/run nspr tests bug 1577359 - build atob and btoa for thunderbird bug 1579036 - confusing error when trying to export non-existent cert with pk12util bug 1578626 - [cid 1453375] ub: decrement nullptr.

AT APIs Support
examples of xul applications: firefox - web-browser thunderbird - email client seamonkey - web-browser, advanced e-mail and newsgroup client, irc chat client, and html editing made simple sunbird - cross-platform calendar application kompozer - a complete web authoring system for linux desktop, microsoft windows and macintosh users to rival programs like frontpage and dreamweaver.
...however it's preferable to grab the current build of firefox or any other gecko-based product to be up to dated: firefox recent builds thunderbird recent builds seamonkey recent builds determining if accessibility is enabled in a firefox accessibility is enabled on windows and linux platforms by default.

xpcshell
$ locate run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox-0.10.1/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/thunderbird-0.9/run-mozilla.sh /usr/local/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /opt/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh /root/.trash/mozilla/run-mozilla.sh just pick one, cd over there, and run-mozilla.sh xpcshell, if it's present.
... (however, it might not be there if you have a non-debug version of firefox, mozilla, thunderbird, etc.) $ cd /opt/mozilla $ ./run-mozilla.sh ./xpcshell js> execute xpcshell from window the built xpcshell.exe can't be executed under the mozilla build shell(bash).

amIWebInstallInfo
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void install(); attributes attribute type description installs nsivariant an array of addoninstall objects.
... note: prior to gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5), this was an nsidomwindowinternal.

imgIContainerObserver
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.7 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9) if you wish to listen for activities on an imgicontainer, you should implement the framechanged() method.
... notes the arequest parameter was added to this method in gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9).

mozIStorageStatement
inherits from: mozistoragevaluearray last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) for an introduction on how to use this interface, see the storage overview document.
... methods initialize() obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) note: this method has been removed for gecko 1.9.1.

nsIAccessNode
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) the nsiaccessnode implementations are instantiated lazily.
... methods getchildnodeat() obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) get the nth child of this node.

nsIAccessibleText
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) method overview void addselection(in long startoffset, in long endoffset); nsiaccessible getattributerange(in long offset, out long rangestartoffset, out long rangeendoffset); obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 wchar getcharacteratoffset(in long offset); void getcharacterextents(in long offset, out long x, out long y, out long width, out long height, in unsigned long coordtype); long getoffsetatpoint(in long x, in long y, in unsigned long coordtype); void getrangeextents(in long startoffset, in long endoffset, out long x, out long y, out long width, out long height, in unsigned long coordtype)...
... constant value description coord_type_screen 0 coord_type_window 1 methods addselection() void addselection( in long startoffset, in long endoffset ); parameters startoffset endoffset getattributerange() obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) get the accessible and start/end offsets around the given offset.

nsIAccessibleTreeCache
obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0)this feature is obsolete.
... last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview nsiaccessible getcachedtreeitemaccessible(in long arow, in nsitreecolumn acolumn); void invalidatecache(in long arow, in long acount); void treeviewchanged(); void treeviewinvalidated(in long astartrow, in long aendrow, in long astartcol, in long aendcol); methods getcachedtreeitemaccessible() returns the tree item from the cache for the cell in the specified row and column; the nsiac...

nsICachingChannel
inherits from: nsicacheinfochannel last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) this interface provides: support for "stream as file" semantics (for jar and plugins).
... methods isfromcache() obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) this method finds out whether or not this channel's data is being loaded from the cache.

nsIChannelEventSink
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) channels will try to get this interface from a channel's notificationcallbacks or, if not available there, from the loadgroup's notificationcallbacks.
... onchannelredirect() obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) called when a redirect occurs.

nsIChromeRegistry
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/chrome/chrome-registry;1 as a service: var chromeregistry = components.classes["@mozilla.org/chrome/chrome-registry;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsichromeregistry); method overview void canonify(in nsiuri achromeurl); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void checkfornewchrome(); nsiuri convertchromeurl(in nsiuri achromeurl); boolean wrappersenabled(in nsiuri auri); violates the xpcom interface guidelines constants const...
...ant value description none 0 partial 1 full 2 methods canonify() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) note: this method is obsolete; use convertchromeurl() instead.

nsIClipboard
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 30.0 (firefox 30.0 / thunderbird 30.0 / seamonkey 2.27) method overview void emptyclipboard(in long awhichclipboard); void forcedatatoclipboard(in long awhichclipboard); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void getdata(in nsitransferable atransferable, in long awhichclipboard); boolean hasdatamatchingflavors([array, size_is(alength)] in string aflavorlist, in unsigned long alength, in long awhichclipboard); void setdata(in nsitransferable atransferable, in nsiclipboardowner anowner, in long awhichclipboard); boolean supportsselecti...
... forcedatatoclipboard() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) some platforms support deferred notification for putting data on the clipboard this method forces the data onto the clipboard in its various formats this may be used if the application going away.

nsIConsoleService
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 19 (firefox 19 / thunderbird 19 / seamonkey 2.16) implemented by: @mozilla.org/consoleservice;1 as a service: var consoleservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/consoleservice;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsiconsoleservice); method overview void getmessagearray([array, size_is(count)] out nsiconsolemessage messages, out uint32_t count);obsolete since gecko 19 void getmessagearray([optional] out uint32_t cou...
... obsolete since gecko 19 (firefox 19 / thunderbird 19 / seamonkey 2.16)this feature is obsolete.

nsIDOMStorageEventObsolete
obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) this feature is obsolete.
... 1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 obsolete gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsidomevent last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) when a dom storage event is received, the recipient can check its domain attribute to determine which domain's data store has changed.

nsIDOMWindowInternal
66 introduced gecko 1.0 deprecated gecko 8.0 inherits from: nsidomwindow last changed in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) in gecko 8.0 this interface was merged into the nsidomwindow interface.
... note: prior to gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4), this attribute was part of nsidomwindow_2_0_branch.

nsIDragService
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 43 (firefox 43 / thunderbird 43 / seamonkey 2.40) note: using this interface directly from add-on code is deprecated.
... firedrageventatsource() obsolete since gecko 43 (firefox 43 / thunderbird 43 / seamonkey 2.40)this feature is obsolete.

nsIEditor
66 introduced gecko 1.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 18.0 (firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15) method overview [noscript] void init(in nsidomdocument doc, in nsicontent aroot, in nsiselectioncontroller aselcon, in unsigned long aflags); void setattributeorequivalent(in nsidomelement element, in astring sourceattrname, in astring sourceattrvalue, in boolean asuppresstransaction); void removeattributeorequivalent(in nsidomelement element, in domstring sourceattrname, in boolean asuppresstransaction); void postcreate(); void predestroy(in boolean adestroyingframes); ...
...this parameter was removed in gecko 5.0 (firefox 5.0 / thunderbird 5.0 / seamonkey 2.2).

nsIFile
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 30.0 (firefox 30.0 / thunderbird 30.0 / seamonkey 2.27) nsifile is the correct platform-agnostic way to specify a file; you should always use this instead of a string to ensure compatibility.
...for specific handling before gecko 9 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6), please see bug 682571.

nsIFilePicker
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 17.0 (firefox 17.0 / thunderbird 17.0 / seamonkey 2.14) implemented by: @mozilla.org/filepicker;1.
... show() obsolete since gecko 57.0 (firefox 57.0 / thunderbird 57.0 / seamonkey 2.54) displays the file picker dialog.

nsIFocusManager
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 5.0 (firefox 5.0 / thunderbird 5.0 / seamonkey 2.2) implemented by: @mozilla.org/focus-manager;1 as a service: var focusmanager = components.classes["@mozilla.org/focus-manager;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsifocusmanager); method overview void clearfocus(in nsidomwindow awindow); void contentremoved(in nsidocument adocument, in nsicontent aelement); native code only!
... native code only!contentremoved obsolete since gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.

nsIGeolocationProvider
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) this must be called on the main thread interface provides location information to the nsgeolocator via the nsidomgeolocationcallback interface.
...method overview boolean isready(); obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 void shutdown(); void startup(); void watch(in nsigeolocationupdate callback); methods isready() obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) reports whether or not the device is ready and has a position.

nsIMimeConverter
thunderbird stored uint32 properties (not a complete list): indexed used for spotlight integration on osx.
...thunderbird provides a utility function which performs this for the currently selected message: markcurrentmessageasread().

nsIMsgCompFields
characterset char * defaultcharacterset char * readonly drafid char * dsn prbool fcc astring fcc2 astring followupto char * forcemsgencoding prbool forceplaintext prbool from astring hasrecipients prbool readonly new in thunderbird 23 indicates whether something is filled in in the to, cc, or bcc attribute.
...(bug 249530) newsgroups astring newshost char * newsposturl char * organization astring otherrandomheaders astring no longer exists - see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird/s4ofmm8_b28 priority char * receiptheadertype print32 references char * replyto astring securityinfo nsisupports subject astring templatename astring temporaryfiles char * obsolete temporaryfiles obsolete, do not use anymore to astring use...

nsIMsgDBView
the nsimsgdbview interface handles the display of mail in the threadpane and preview pane of thunderbird and other xpcom based mail cients.
...used by the thunderbird ui to determine if the command is available.

nsIMsgIncomingServer
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) method overview void clearallvalues(); void cleartemporaryreturnreceiptsfilter(); void closecachedconnections(); void configuretemporaryfilters(in nsimsgfilterlist filterlist); void configuretemporaryreturnreceiptsfilter(in nsimsgfilterlist filterlist); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void displayofflinemsg(in nsimsgwindow awindow); boolean equals(in nsimsgincomingserver server); void forgetpassword(); void forgetsessionpassword(); astring generateprettynameformigration(); boolean getboolattribute(in string name); boolean getboolvalue(in string att...
...void configuretemporaryfilters( in nsimsgfilterlist filterlist ); parameters filterlist missing description exceptions thrown missing exception missing description configuretemporaryreturnreceiptsfilter() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) if we have set up to filter return receipts into our sent folder, this utility method creates a filter to do that, and adds it to our filterlist if it doesn't exist.

nsIMsgWindow
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8 (firefox 8 / thunderbird 8 / seamonkey 2.5) implemented by: @mozilla.org/messenger/msgwindow;1.
... to create an instance, use: msgwindow = components.classes["@mozilla.org/messenger/msgwindow;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsimsgwindow); in thunderbird the default message window is stored in the global variable msgwindow.

nsINavBookmarkObserver
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 21.0 (firefox 21.0 / thunderbird 21.0 / seamonkey 2.18) method overview void onbeforeitemremoved(in long long aitemid, in unsigned short aitemtype, in long long aparentid, in acstring aguid, in acstring aparentguid); obsolete since gecko 21.0 void onbeginupdatebatch(); void onendupdatebatch(); void onfolderadded(in print64 folder, in print64 parent, in print32 index); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void onfolderchanged(in print64 folder, in acstring property); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void onfoldermoved(in print64 folder, in...
...nsigned long atransitiontype, in nsiuri auri, in long long aparentid, in acstring aguid, in acstring aparentguid); void onseparatoradded(in print64 parent, in print32 index); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void onseparatorremoved(in print64 parent, in print32 index); obsolete since gecko 1.9 methods onbeforeitemremoved() obsolete since gecko 21.0 (firefox 21.0 / thunderbird 21.0 / seamonkey 2.18) note: this method was removed in gecko 21.0 as part of bug 826409.

nsINavHistoryResultViewObserver
to provide behavior similar to the folder pane in thunderbird, where drops are only permitted on items themselves instead of on the pane as a whole, always return false when the orientation isn't drop_on.
... oncyclecell() called when a cell in a non-selectable cycling column (such as unread or flagged in thunderbird) is clicked.

nsINavHistoryService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 22 (firefox 22 / thunderbird 22 / seamonkey 2.19) implemented by: "@mozilla.org/browser/nav-history-service;1".
... addvisit() obsolete since gecko 22.0 (firefox 22.0 / thunderbird 22.0 / seamonkey 2.19) note: this method was removed in gecko 22.0.

nsIProcess
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) implemented by: @mozilla.org/process/util;1.
... initwithpid() obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) initializes the nsiprocess to represent an existing process, given that process's id.

nsIResumableChannel
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void asyncopenat(in nsistreamlistener listener, in nsisupports ctxt, in unsigned long startpos, in nsiresumableentityid entityid); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void resumeat(in unsigned long long startpos, in acstring entityid); attributes attribute type description entityid acstring the entity id for this uri.
... methods asyncopenat() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) open this channel, and read starting at the specified offset.

nsIScreen
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 13.0 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10) use nsiscreenmanager to obtain references to screens.
... screen rotation constants requires gecko 13.0(firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10) constant value description rotation_0_deg 0 0° of rotation (that is, no rotation, or default orientation).

nsIScriptError2
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 obsolete gecko 12.0 inherits from: nsiscripterror last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) in gecko 12.0 this interface was merged into the nsiscripterror interface.
...prior to gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6), this was the outer window id.

nsISelectionController
inherits from: nsiselectiondisplay last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void characterextendforbackspace(); native code only!
... setcaretwidth() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) set the carets width.

nsISessionStartup
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) implemented by: @mozilla.org/browser/sessionstartup;1.
...note: prior to gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5), this was a string.

nsISmsDatabaseService
nsismsdatabaseservice dom/sms/interfaces/nsismsdatabaseservice.idlscriptable used to store and manage sms text messages for the websms api 1.0 66 introduced gecko 13.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 15.0 (firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) implemented by: @mozilla.org/sms/smsdatabaseservice;1.
... markmessageread() requires gecko 15.0(firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) void markmessageread( in long messageid, in boolean value, in long requestid, [optional] in unsigned long long processid ); parameters messageid a number representing the id of the message.

nsISocketTransportService
init() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) void init(); parameters none.
... shutdown() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) void shutdown(); parameters none.

nsIURL
inherits from: nsiuri last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) http://host/directory/filebasename.fileextension?query http://host/directory/filebasename.fileextension#ref http://host/directory/filebasename.fileextension;param \ \ / \ ----------------------- \ | / \ filename / ---------------------------- | filepath you can get a nsiurl from an nsiuri, using the queryinterface() method: var myuri = components.cla...
...obsolete since gecko 9.0 note: this was removed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) because the semicolon is not actually valid for this purpose and should not have been specially handled.

nsIWinAppHelper
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1.
... postupdate() obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) invokes helper.exe with the /postupdate parameter.

nsIWindowsShellService
inherits from: nsishellservice last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview string getregistryentry(in long ahkeyconstant, in string asubkeyname, in string avaluename); obsolete since gecko 1.8 void restorefilesettings(in boolean aforallusers); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void shortcutmaintenance(); attributes attribute type description desktopbackgroundcolor unsigned long the desktop background color, visible when no background image is used, or if the background image is centered and does not fill the entire screen.
...obsolete since gecko 1.8 methods getregistryentry() obsolete since gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) retrieves a windows registry entry value.

nsIZipReader
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7) implemented by: @mozilla.org/libjar/zip-reader;1.
... starting in gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7), the nsizipreader api supports a limited 8 bit code page usage.

nsMsgNavigationType
the nsmsgnavigationtype interface contains constants used for message navigation in thunderbird.
... for example to move forward a message, you would call: // assuming gdbview is a global nsimsgdbview var resultid = new object(); var resultindex = new object(); var threadindex = new object(); gdbview.viewnavigate(components.interfaces.nsmsgnavigationtype.nextmessage, resultid, resultindex, threadindex, true); the nsmsgnavigationtype interface is defined as a global variable in thunderbird: var nsmsgviewcommandtype = components.interfaces.nsmsgviewcommandtype; mailnews/base/public/nsimsgdbview.idlscriptable please add a summary to this article.

nsMsgViewCommandCheckState
the nsmsgviewcommandcheckstate interface contains constants used for command status in thunderbird.
... it is (as far as i can tell) not currently used anywhere in thunderbird.

XPCOM ABI
to put it simply, an xpcom component built for a specific abi would only be compatible with firefox, thunderbird or other xulrunner application built for the same abi.
...to retrieve the abi of your firefox or thunderbird, open the error console (accessible through tools | error console) and evaluate the following javascript code: components.classes["@mozilla.org/xre/app-info;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsixulruntime) .xpcomabi if either the cpu architecture or the c++ compiler are unknown, the application wouldn't have an xpcom abi string and attempts to get it will result in erro...

Account Provisioner
the account provisioner is the dialog that first comes up when starting thunderbird.
... a mozillazine article on how to set preferences in thunderbird.

Message Interfaces
nsimsgthread nsimsgthread - this interface is used to interact with threads in thunderbird.
... nsimsgdbview nsimsgdbview - the nsimsgdbview interface handles the display of mail in the threadpane and preview pane of thunderbird and other xpcom based mail cients.

FAQ
the old contents of this faq page were duplicated in the setting up extension development environment article and the building a thunderbird extension article.
... (duplicate content has been removed from this page.) other resources can be found on the thunderbird extension development portal page.

Styling the Folder Pane
this content covers features introduced in thunderbird 3 the folder pane in thunderbird is predominantly controlled by code in folderpane.js.
... since thunderbird 3, the folder pane is designed in a more modular and extensible fashion.

Tips and Tricks from the newsgroups
the following discussions on mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird and mozilla.dev.extensions include useful tips for thunderbird add-on developers.
... extensions load an extension in its own tab run shell scripts from an extension (for example, to create a symlink) get extension metadata call java from thunderbird extensions (also an example here, written for firefox but compatible with thunderbird 3.x) define a custom protocol handler to call an external program save attachment and send it repeat image display using css sprites messages use reminderfox to open a message in the default thunderbird message window (when messageuri, folderuri and gdbview are unknown) determine whether a message has been flagged as junk imap: getting mess...

Toolkit version format
see older version formats below for description of the older version format used in firefox/thunderbird 1.0.
... older version formats firefox and thunderbird 1.0 used a simpler version format, namely major[.minor[.release[.build]]][+] where [..] denotes an optional component, and major, minor, release, and build are all non-negative integers.

Introduction to DOM Inspector - Firefox Developer Tools
the dom inspector is a mozilla extension that you can access from the tools > web development menu in seamonkey, or by selecting the dom inspector menu item from the tools menu in firefox and thunderbird, or by using ctrl/cmd+shift+i in either application.
...for thunderbird and seamonkey mail and news, any messages you're viewing will be listed here.

Document.importNode() - Web APIs
with gecko 28.0 (firefox 28 / thunderbird 28 / seamonkey 2.25 / firefox os 1.3), the console warns developers not to omit the argument.
... starting with gecko 29.0 (firefox 29 / thunderbird 29 / seamonkey 2.26)), a shallow clone is defaulted instead of a deep clone.

Document.xmlEncoding - Web APIs
obsolete since gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7)this feature is obsolete.
... warning: do not use this attribute; it has been removed from the dom level 4 specification and is no longer supported in gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7).

Document - Web APIs
mozilla also define some non-standard methods: document.execcommandshowhelp()obsolete since gecko 14 this method never did anything and always threw an exception, so it was removed in gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11).
... document.querycommandtext()obsolete since gecko 14 this method never did anything but throw an exception, and was removed in gecko 14 (firefox 14 / thunderbird 14 / seamonkey 2.11).

Window.pkcs11 - Web APIs
obsolete since gecko 29 (firefox 29 / thunderbird 29 / seamonkey 2.26)this feature is obsolete.
... note: this property has been returned null since gecko 1.9.0.14 (firefox 3.0.14) and removed in gecko 29.0 (firefox 29 / thunderbird 29 / seamonkey 2.26)) for security reasons.

Sending and Receiving Binary Data - Web APIs
note: support for sending arraybuffer objects using xmlhttprequest was added to gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6).
... note: this non-standard sendasbinary method is considered deprecated as of gecko 31 (firefox 31 / thunderbird 31 / seamonkey 2.28) and will be removed soon.

Using XMLHttpRequest - Web APIs
note: starting with gecko 30.0 (firefox 30.0 / thunderbird 30.0 / seamonkey 2.27), synchronous requests on the main thread have been deprecated due to the negative effects to the user experience.
... note: the non-standard sendasbinary method is considered deprecated as of gecko 31 (firefox 31 / thunderbird 31 / seamonkey 2.28) and will be removed soon.

Audio and Video Delivery - Developer guides
note: the playback range portion of the media element uri specification was added to gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6).
... error handling starting in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1), error handling has been revised to match the latest version of the html5 specification.

Touch events (Mozilla experimental) - Developer guides
warning: this experimental api was removed in gecko 18.0 (firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15), when support for the standard touch events was implemented.
... the experimental touch events api described on this page was available from gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) to gecko/firefox 17.

Values - MathML
thspace => 0.3888888888888889em constant value veryverythinmathspace 1/18em verythinmathspace 2/18em thinmathspace 3/18em mediummathspace 4/18em thickmathspace 5/18em verythickmathspace 6/18em veryverythickmathspace 7/18em negative contstants are introduced in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) (bug 650530) negativeveryverythinmathspace -1/18em negativeverythinmathspace -2/18em negativethinmathspace -3/18em negativemediummathspace -4/18em negativethickmathspace -5/18em negativeverythickmathspace -6/18em negativeveryverythickmathspace -7/18em note: namedspace binding is dep...
...recated in mathml3 and has been removed in gecko 15.0 (firefox 15.0 / thunderbird 15.0 / seamonkey 2.12) (bug 673759).

<mtable> - MathML
starting with gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) the interpretation of negative values has been corrected (bug 601436).
... in gecko 17.0 (firefox 17.0 / thunderbird 17.0 / seamonkey 2.14) the parsing has been updated to treat whitespace correctly.

SVG 2 support in Mozilla - SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics
role mapping of <a> element depending on whether it is a valid link implementation status unknown aria state and property attributes animatable implementation status unknown styling change notes contentstyletype attribute removed implementation status unknown linkstyle on svgstyleelement implemented (bug 1239128 (firefox 46.0 / thunderbird 46.0 / seamonkey 2.43)) inner <svg>s and <foreignobjects>s not overflow: hidden; in ua style sheet implementation status unknown overflow: hidden; on <hatch> in ua style sheet implementation status unknown 0 0 as default value of transform-origin except root <svg> and <svg> children of <foreign> implementation status unknown use of white-space instead ...
...ntation status unknown <source> implementation status unknown <track> implementation status unknown painting change notes paint-order implemented (bug 828805) will-change instead of buffered-rendering implementation status unknown context-fill and context-stroke paint values implemented (bug 719286 (firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15) and bug 798843 (firefox 26.0 / thunderbird 26.0 / seamonkey 2.23)) child keyword for <paint> values and marker properties implementation status unknown vector-effect property only none and non-scaling-stroke values are supported (bug 528332 (firefox 15 / thunderbird 15 / seamonkey 2.12), bug 1318208) arcs value for stroke-linejoin not imp...

Navigator.mozNotification - Archive of obsolete content
mobile only in gecko 2.0 available only in firefox mobile as of gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) provides support for creating notification objects, which are used to display desktop notification alerts to the user.

Contributor's Guide - Archive of obsolete content
we will show how to do each of these things using the built-in components object provided by xulrunner application such as firefox and thunderbird.

system/xul-app - Archive of obsolete content
the possible values here are: "firefox" "fennec" "mozilla" "seamonkey" "sunbird" "thunderbird" "firefox"and"fennec"` are the most commonly used values.

package.json - Archive of obsolete content
firefox: firefox desktop fennec: firefox for android thunderbird: thunderbird seamonkey: seamonkey any application uuid example: "engines": { "firefox": ">= 38.0a1", "fennec": ">= 38.0a1" } fullname note: this is deprecated along with cfx; it's not available when using jpm.

Bootstrapped extensions - Archive of obsolete content
gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) introduces bootstrapped extensions.

On page load - Archive of obsolete content
creating an overlay first, you need to create an overlay to one (or more, depending on which applications you target) of the following xul documents: application uri to overlay firefox chrome://browser/content/browser.xul thunderbird chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul navigator from seamonkey chrome://navigator/content/navigator.xul attaching a script attach a script to your overlay (see "attaching a script to an overlay") that adds a load event listener to appcontent element (browsers) or messagepane (mail): window.addeventlistener("load", function load(event){ window.removeeventlistener("lo...

Progress Listeners - Archive of obsolete content
gecko 2.0 note starting in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1), all events are optional.

Tabbox - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) this feature is obsolete.

Windows - Archive of obsolete content
terfaces.nsiwindowwatcher) .getwindowenumerator(); var index = 1; var windowname = "yourwindowname"; while (wenum.hasmoreelements()) { var win = wenum.getnext(); if (win.name == windowname) { win.focus(); return; } index++ } window.open("chrome://to/your/window.xul", windowname, "features"); uniquely identifying dom windows requires gecko 2.0(firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) in gecko, each dom window has a unique 64-bit id number.

Creating custom Firefox extensions with the Mozilla build system - Archive of obsolete content
one final note: i've only tried these techniques inside firefox, but they'll probably work more or less unchanged on other gecko-based platforms like thunderbird or seamonkey.

Appendix: What you should know about open-source software licenses - Archive of obsolete content
the table below shows a few well-known software titles and their licenses license representative software titles modified bsd freebsd, netbsd, openbsd mpl firefox, thunderbird (also triple-licensed mpl/lgpl/gpl) gpl linux kernel, gimp lgpl gtk+, openoffice.org modified bsd license this license permits free duplication, distribution, and modification provided that a copyright statement and liability disclaimer are included.

Chapter 5: Let's build a Firefox extension - Archive of obsolete content
an easier method of building a firefox/thunderbird addon for developers who are well-acquainted with ides like netbeans, eclipse, etc.

Chapter 4: Using XPCOM—Implementing advanced processes - Archive of obsolete content
for firefox 3.5 choose "mozilla 1.9.1." for the current development trunk of firefox, choose "mozilla central" and for thunderbird, choose "comm.

The Essentials of an Extension - Archive of obsolete content
other mozilla and mozilla-based applications such as thunderbird and seamonkey have their own.

Security best practices in extensions - Archive of obsolete content
this is written from the perspective of a firefox extension, but most items apply to extensions for other mozilla-based applications such as thunderbird or seamonkey.

Signing an extension - Archive of obsolete content
this article describes how to digitally sign your extension for firefox and thunderbird, with a code signing certificate for object signing.

Adding preferences to an extension - Archive of obsolete content
alternative method: inline options requires gecko 7(firefox 7 / thunderbird 7 / seamonkey 2.4) you could use inline options for this preference.

MozOrientation - Archive of obsolete content
warning: this experimental api was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3), when support for the standard deviceorientationevent was implemented.

List of Former Mozilla-Based Applications - Archive of obsolete content
old article available about how borland embedded mozilla in kylix 2 mango im client last news item on site from january 2007 mobidvd dvd/vcd/cd ripping software site down mozilla suite internet application suite development shifted to firefox, thunderbird and seamonkey applications netscape navigator browser support for netscape ended on february 1, 2008 nvu web authoring tool development stopped in 2005 and is being continued as an unofficial bugfix release by the kompozer project pogo browser from at&t site no longer accessible as of may 2009 pyro desktop desktop environment last news i...

cert_override.txt - Archive of obsolete content
this file is used by firefox, thunderbird, and other xul-based applications.

Source code directories overview - Archive of obsolete content
toolkit contains the code for the toolkit used for firefox, thunderbird and other standalone applications.

Using content preferences - Archive of obsolete content
spellcheck.lang language code (e.g., "en-us") private browsing requires gecko 9.0(firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) prior to gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6), the content preference service always stores preferences on disk.

Locked config settings - Archive of obsolete content
putting into place locked configuration settings this feature exists for mozilla and firefox, but not for thunderbird locked settings can be put into a mozilla.cfg file in the c:\program files\mozilla.org\mozilla directory.

Automatic Mozilla Configurator - Archive of obsolete content
automatic mozilla configurator:introduction automatic mozilla configurator:how mozilla finds its configuration files automatic mozilla configurator:how thunderbird and firefox find their configuration files automatic mozilla configurator:protecting mozilla's registry.dat file automatic mozilla configurator:enabling quicklaunch for all users automatic mozilla configurator:kill the xul.mfl file for good automatic mozilla configurator:locked config settings automatic mozilla configurator:other mozilla customization pages online configurator tools: registry.dat mozilla.cfg (locked preferences) ...

Creating a Firefox sidebar extension - Archive of obsolete content
the emptysidebar extension resources code snippets:sidebar building an extension creating applications with mozilla packaging firefox/thunderbird extensions creating a firefox 1 sidebar original document information author: j.c.

Creating a Microsummary - Archive of obsolete content
warning: microsummary support was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) a microsummary generator is a set of instructions for creating a microsummary from the content of a page.

Creating regular expressions for a microsummary generator - Archive of obsolete content
warning: microsummary support was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) a regular expression is a special kind of string (i.e.

Syncing custom preferences - Archive of obsolete content
to sync preferences between firefoxes, fennecs, thunderbirds, etc., ensure the prefs are whitelisted.

Makefile.mozextension.2 - Archive of obsolete content
ome://$(project)/content/overlay.xul locale $(project) en-us locale/ skin $(project) classic/1.0 skin/ style chrome://global/content/customizetoolbar.xul chrome://$(project)/skin/overlay.css endef export chrome_manifest chrome.manifest: @echo generating $(project)/chrome.manifest @echo "$$chrome_manifest" > $(project)/chrome.manifest ###### #firefox {ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384} #thunderbird {3550f703-e582-4d05-9a08-453d09bdfdc6} #nvu {136c295a-4a5a-41cf-bf24-5cee526720d5} #mozilla suite {86c18b42-e466-45a9-ae7a-9b95ba6f5640} #seamonkey {92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a} #sunbird {718e30fb-e89b-41dd-9da7-e25a45638b28} #netscape browser {3db10fab-e461-4c80-8b97-957ad5f8ea47} ###### define install_rdf <rdf xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://w...

Microsummary XML grammar reference - Archive of obsolete content
warning: microsummary support was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) this article provides detailed information about the xml grammar used to build microsummary generators, describing each element and their attributes.

Microsummary topics - Archive of obsolete content
warning: microsummary support was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) programmatically installing a microsummary generator to programmatically install a microsummary generator -- for example, in an extension that helps users create custom generators for their favorite sites -- obtain a reference to the nsimicrosummaryservice interface implemented by the nsimicrosummaryservice component, then call its installgenerator() method, passing it an xml document containing the generator.

Proxy UI - Archive of obsolete content
thunderbird menu: preferences > advanced tab > networking tab > connection button.

Supporting private browsing mode - Archive of obsolete content
detecting whether private browsing mode is permanent requires gecko 2.0(firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) firefox 4 added support for having private browsing mode permanently enabled.

Venkman Introduction - Archive of obsolete content
starting the debugger the javascript debugger is automatically pre-installed in mozilla 1.x but must be installed separately in firefox and other gecko-based products, such as thunderbird and netscape 7.x.

Venkman - Archive of obsolete content
getting venkman firefox and thunderbird the latest version of javascript debugger is available from firefox add-ons.

Creating XPI Installer Modules - Archive of obsolete content
addons for various toolkit applications, such as firefox or thunderbird, should be packaged in a different way.

XPInstall - Archive of obsolete content
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <rdf xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:em="http://www.mozilla.org/2004/em-rdf#"> <description about="urn:mozilla:install-manifest"> <!-- properties --> </description> </rdf> cross-platform install (xpinstall) is a technology used by mozilla application suite, mozilla firefox, mozilla thunderbird and other xul-based applications for installing extensions.

highlightnonmatches - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home highlightnonmatches new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean if true, then the autocomplete field will be highlighted when no match has been found.

alwaysopenpopup - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home alwaysopenpopup obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif true, the autocomplete popup will be displayed even when there are no matches.

autocompletesearchparam - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home autocompletesearchparam new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 1.1 type: string a string which is passed to the search component.

autofill - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home autofill new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean if set to true, the best match will be filled into the textbox as the user types.

completedefaultindex - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home completedefaultindex new in thunderbird 3 requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean if true, the best match value will be filled into the textbox as the user types.

disableautocomplete - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home disableautocomplete new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean if true, the autocomplete behavior will be disabled.

forcecomplete - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home forcecomplete new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean if true, the textbox will be filled in with the best match when it loses the focus.

ignoreblurwhilesearching - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home ignoreblurwhilesearching new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean if true, blur events are ignored while searching, which means that the autocomplete popup will not disappear.

onsearchcomplete - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home onsearchcomplete new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: script code this event handler is called when the autocomplete search is finished and results are available.

ontextcommand - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home ontextcommand obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: script code note: applies to: thunderbird, seamonkeythis event handler is called when a result is selected for the textbox.

ontextentered - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home ontextentered new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: script code this event handler is called when a result is selected for the textbox.

ontextrevert - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home ontextrevert obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: script code note: applies to: thunderbird, seamonkey this event handler is called when the user presses escape to revert the textbox to its original uncompleted value.

ontextreverted - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home ontextreverted new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: script code this event handler is called when the user presses escape to revert the textbox to its original uncompleted value.

showcommentcolumn - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home showcommentcolumn new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean if true, a comment column appears in the popup.

showpopup - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home showpopup type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird, seamonkeyif true, the popup will be shown.

tabscrolling - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home tabscrolling new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean if true, the user may cycle through the results list by pressing the tab key.

textbox.autoFill - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference home autofill obsolete since gecko 1.9.1 type: boolean note: applies to: thunderbird and seamonkeyif set to true, the best match will be filled into the textbox as the user types.

textbox.type - Archive of obsolete content
for more information about autocomplete textboxes, see the autocomplete documentation (xpfe [thunderbird/seamonkey]) (firefox) number a textbox that only allows the user to enter numbers.

Dynamically modifying XUL-based user interface - Archive of obsolete content
introduction as you know, xul is an xml language used in various mozilla-based applications, such as firefox and thunderbird, to describe the user interface.

appendNotification - Archive of obsolete content
notification box events requires gecko 9.0(firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) if you specify the eventcallback parameter, it should be a javascript function that gets called when interesting things happen related to the notification box.

Extensions - Archive of obsolete content
(note: was removed from thunderbird 3 - see bug 463003 for a replacement) iscontentselected true if anything, text or otherwise, is selected.

Panels - Archive of obsolete content
letting panels be dragged by grabbing the background requires gecko 7.0(firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) starting in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4), you can use the backdrag attribute to create panels that the user can drag by clicking and dragging anywhere on their backgrounds.

highlightNonMatches - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference highlightnonmatches new in thunderbird 1 requires seamonkey 1.0 type: boolean gets and sets the value of the highlightnonmatches attribute.

completeDefaultIndex - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference completedefaultindex new in thunderbird 3requires seamonkey 2.0 type: boolean gets and sets the value of the completedefaultindex attribute.

documentCharsetInfo - Archive of obsolete content
the properties of the nsidocumentcharsetinfo object were merged into the docshell in gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9).

popupOpen - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference popupopen new in thunderbird 15 requires seamonkey 2.12 type: boolean indicates whether the popup is open or not.

searchCount - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference searchcount new in thunderbird 15 requires seamonkey 2.12 type: integer returns the number of search components used.

searchParam - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference searchparam new in thunderbird 15 requires seamonkey 2.12 type: string gets and sets the value of the autocompletesearchparam attribute.

textValue - Archive of obsolete content
« xul reference textvalue new in thunderbird 15 requires seamonkey 2.12 type: string returns the content of the textbox.

textbox.label - Archive of obsolete content
note: prior to firefox 3, and always in thunderbird and seamonkey, the label property of an autocomplete textbox returns its value, for compatibility with the menulist element.

Building Trees - Archive of obsolete content
support for this was introduced in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4).

XML Templates - Archive of obsolete content
support for this was introduced in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4).

Toolbars - Archive of obsolete content
tools dom inspector edit the live dom (firefox and thunderbird) mozilla labs add-on builder extension developer's extension a suite of development tools chrome list view files in chrome:// (firefox, thunderbird) extension wizard a web-based extension skeleton generator (firefox and thunderbird) ...

Introduction - Archive of obsolete content
extensions may also be applied to other mozilla based products such as thunderbird.

The Chrome URL - Archive of obsolete content
if you were to move the file messenger.jar somewhere else and update the manifest file accordingly, thunderbird will still work since it doesn't rely on its specific installed location.

XUL Structure - Archive of obsolete content
firefox and thunderbird, as well as number of other components are all written in xul and are all accessible via chrome urls.

browser - Archive of obsolete content
the properties of the nsidocumentcharsetinfo object were merged into the docshell in gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9).

tabbrowser - Archive of obsolete content
the properties of the nsidocumentcharsetinfo object were merged into the docshell in gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9).

Application Update - Archive of obsolete content
this article will hopefully explain how to update your xulrunner application using the same method that firefox, thunderbird, songbird, and chatzilla use.

Dialogs in XULRunner - Archive of obsolete content
firefox and thunderbird both support nearly native page setup and print dialogs.

Getting started with XULRunner - Archive of obsolete content
given that firefox, thunderbird, and multiple other applications are written using the platform, it's a safe bet that it can be used to build a basic application.

XULRunner Hall of Fame - Archive of obsolete content
sqlite manager manage all your sqlite databases using this lightweight extension for firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, songbird, komodo etc.

Opening a Link in the Default Browser - Archive of obsolete content
to suppress this warning for particular protocols that are safe to open in the default application, you must set default prefs (thunderbird sets the following prefs): // suppress external-load warning for standard browser schemes pref("network.protocol-handler.warn-external.http", false); pref("network.protocol-handler.warn-external.https", false); pref("network.protocol-handler.warn-external.ftp", false); you can also check whether an external handler for a scheme exists.

XULRunner tips - Archive of obsolete content
this way i have one directory where i keep all my mozilla extensions, and each application (firefox, thunderbird) simply contains a few small, one line files pointing to the location of the extensions.

What XULRunner Provides - Archive of obsolete content
the goal of xulrunner is to provide a solution for deploying xul applications (primarily firefox and thunderbird), as well as providing an embedding mechanism.

XULRunner - Archive of obsolete content
xulrunner is a mozilla runtime package that can be used to bootstrap xul+xpcom applications that are as rich as firefox and thunderbird.

Mozprofile - Archive of obsolete content
mozprofile is a python tool for creating and managing profiles for mozilla's applications (firefox, thunderbird, etc.).

Mozrunner - Archive of obsolete content
mozrunner also exposes two application specific classes, firefoxrunner and thunderbirdrunner which record the binary names necessary for the runner class to find them on the system.

nsIContentPolicy - Archive of obsolete content
63 introduced gecko 1.0 inherits from: nsicontentpolicybase last changed in gecko 42 (firefox 42 / thunderbird 42 / seamonkey 2.39) you can observe content that is being loaded into your browser by implementing nsicontentpolicy.

2006-10-06 - Archive of obsolete content
sun microsystems contributes to lightning to combine it with openoffice.org sun microsystems provide users with an alternative open source choice by combining openoffice.org respectively staroffice and thunderbird/lightning.

2006-10-13 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - october 7-13, 2006 announcements updated: thunderbird developer documentation eric shepherd has put together a checklist for the upcoming thunderbird developer documentation and is looking for feedback as well as contributors.

2006-11-03 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - october 28 - november 03, 2006 announcements none for this week.

2006-11-17 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - november 10 - 17, 2006 announcements none for this week discussions how to fiter out mail for a particular recepient?

2006-12-01 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird - november 18 - 24, 2006 announcements none for this week discussions how to display toolbar button image within the customization palette?

2006-09-29 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.builds - september 22nd to 29th 2006 .mar packages peter weilbacher posted a question and asked: how does one go about creating a .mar package that can be used in updating firefox and thunderbird?

2006-10-27 - Archive of obsolete content
./configure --prefix=/export/home/alex/thunderbird --enable-application=browser --disable-tests --disable-debug -disable-auto-deps --disable-freetype2 -enable-official-branding --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-optimize=-xo5 --enable-static --disable-shared --enable-xft --enable-svg the build tools that he used to build firefox 2 are listed in his posting along with the error that he receives when he tries to build it.

2006-11-24 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.l10n - november 24, 2006 announcements thunderbird 2 release schedule for localizations beta 1 freeze for thunderbird 2 is scheduled on december 4th (en-us only).

2006-12-01 - Archive of obsolete content
thunderbird options dialog string changes a lot of string changes to the thunderbird options dialog was landed.

2006-12-08 - Archive of obsolete content
new strings in thunderbird new strings in thunderbird new bugzilla-staging.mozilla.org a staging server for a new bugzilla upgrade.

2006-11-03 - Archive of obsolete content
thunderbird, sunbird).

2006-11-10 - Archive of obsolete content
other important notes are contained in the link above firefox and thunderbird 1.5.0.8 were released firefox and thunderbird 1.5.0.8 were released on november 7, 2006 blocker nomination and code freeze for 1.5.0.9/2.0.0.1 blocker nomination is due on november 10.

2006-10-06 - Archive of obsolete content
they are testing firefox and thunderbird on vista.

2006-10-06 - Archive of obsolete content
vista testers - needed to test firefox and thunderbird in vista.

2006-10-27 - Archive of obsolete content
summary: mozilla.dev.quality - october 20-october 27, 2006 announcements firefox & thunderbird 1.5.0.8 candidate builds available for testing!

2006-10-20 - Archive of obsolete content
joes noticed that mp3 files are no longer allowed to be opened directly from email attachments in trunk builds of thunderbird and seamonkey.

2006-12-01 - Archive of obsolete content
lightning, broken accessibility discussions refering several accessibility issues regarding interface of the sunbird client and the lightning plug-in for thunderbird.

Newsgroup summaries - Archive of obsolete content
formatmozilla.dev.apps.firefox-2006-09-29mozilla.dev.apps.firefox-2006-10-06mozilla.dev.apps.calendarmozilla.dev.tech.js-enginemozilla-dev-accessibilitymozilla-dev-apps-calendarmozilla-dev-apps-firefoxmozilla-dev-apps-thunderbirdmozilla-dev-buildsmozilla-dev-embeddingmozilla-dev-extensionsmozilla-dev-i18nmozilla-dev-l10nmozilla-dev-planningmozilla-dev-platformmozilla-dev-qualitymozilla-dev-securitymozilla-dev-tech-js-enginemozilla-dev-tech-layoutmozilla-dev-tech-xpcommozilla-dev-tech-xul ...

NPN_GetURLNotify - Archive of obsolete content
warning: in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1), npn_geturlnotify() does not notify the plug-in if notifydata is null.

Using workers in extensions - Archive of obsolete content
a note about chromeworkers requires gecko 2.0(firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) gecko 2.0 added the new chromeworker object, which provides a special chrome-only worker that can be used by applications and extensions.

Displaying notifications (deprecated) - Archive of obsolete content
to see how to use the standard api, please read: using web notifications mobile only in gecko 2.0 available only in firefox mobile as of gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) firefox offers support for "desktop notifications"; these are notifications that are displayed to the user outside the context of the web content, using the standard notification system provided by the operating system.

Array comprehensions - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 58 (firefox 58 / thunderbird 58 / seamonkey 2.55)this feature is obsolete.

ECMAScript 5 support in Mozilla - Archive of obsolete content
the javascript runtime used in the latest versions of mozilla projects including both firefox and thunderbird has full support for ecmascript 5.1 features.

Object.prototype.__count__ - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 2 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.

Object.prototype.__noSuchMethod__ - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 43 (firefox 43 / thunderbird 43 / seamonkey 2.40)this feature is obsolete.

Object.prototype.__parent__ - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 2 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.

String.prototype.quote() - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 37 (firefox 37 / thunderbird 37 / seamonkey 2.34)this feature is obsolete.

LiveConnect - Archive of obsolete content
older versions of gecko included special support for the java<->javascript bridge (such as the java and packages global objects), but as of mozilla 16 (firefox 16 / thunderbird 16 / seamonkey 2.13) liveconnect functionality is provided solely by the oracle's java plugin.

Packages - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 16.0 (firefox 16.0 / thunderbird 16.0 / seamonkey 2.13)this feature is obsolete.

XForms Custom Controls - Archive of obsolete content
var img = document.getanonymouselementbyattribute(this, "anonid", "content"); img.setattribute("src", this.stringvalue); return true; </body> </method> </implementation> </binding> </bindings> <xf:model> <xf:instance xmlns=""> <data> <curimg></curimg> <img label="firefox">http://www.mozilla.com/images/firefox-logo-64x64.png</img> <img label="thunderbird">http://www.mozilla.com/images/thunderbird-logo-64x64.png</img> <img label="bugzilla">http://www.mozilla.org/images/p-bugz.gif</img> <img label="mozilla">http://www.mozilla.org/images/mozhead-80x64.gif</img> </data> </xf:instance> </xf:model> <style type="text/css"> @namespace xf url(http://www.w3.org/2002/xforms); xf|output[mediatype="image/*"] { -moz-b...

XForms - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 19 (firefox 19 / thunderbird 19 / seamonkey 2.16)this feature is obsolete.

Mozilla's DOCTYPE sniffing - Archive of obsolete content
obsolete since gecko 2 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) this feature is obsolete.

Archive of obsolete content
we'll build upon the stock watcher extension created in earlier articles in this series, updating it so it can also be used in thunderbird and sunbird (previous versions worked only in firefox).

Using the DOM File API in chrome code - Extensions
notes starting in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5), you can also do this in component code.

Gecko FAQ - Gecko Redirect 1
mozilla.org assembles the necessary components into its applications, such as firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, which are available for free download from mozilla.org.

Plug-in Development Overview - Gecko Plugin API Reference
starting in gecko 10.0 (firefox 10.0 / thunderbird 10.0 / seamonkey 2.7), you can get the origin of the document in a secure, convenient way by calling npn_getvalue() to retrieve the value of the variable npnvdocumentorigin.

Bugzilla
bugzilla.mozilla.org (often abbreviated b.m.o) is mozilla.org's bug-tracking system, a database for recording bugs and enhancement requests for firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, camino, and other mozilla.org projects.

Creating a Language Pack
you still need to specify which application you're localizing (e.g., for firefox, that's browser, thunderbird would be mail).

Debugging on Windows
this document explains how to debug mozilla-derived applications such as firefox, thunderbird, and seamonkey on windows using the visual c++ ide.

Adding APIs to the navigator object
starting with gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6), you can easily add new apis to the window.navigator object by using the category manager.

Makefile - targets
compile firefox, thunderbird, etc check standalone shell unit test invoked directly by make configure launch the configure program to define headers and and attributes for the target build machine.

Simple SeaMonkey build
de install zip mercurial libasound2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libnotify-dev libxt-dev libiw-dev libidl-dev mesa-common-dev autoconf2.13 yasm libgtk2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev python-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libpulse-dev ubuntu linux # for ubuntu 12.04 lts (precise pangolin), replace the following line with: sudo apt-get build-dep thunderbird sudo apt-get build-dep seamonkey sudo apt-get install zip unzip mercurial g++ make autoconf2.13 yasm libgtk2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libasound2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libnotify-dev libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libiw-dev libxt-dev mesa-common-dev libpulse-dev fedora linux centos rhel: sudo yum groupinstall 'develo...

The Firefox codebase: CSS Guidelines
tforms and each of those platforms can contain many different configurations: windows 7, 8 and 10 default theme aero basic (windows 7, 8) windows classic (windows 7) high contrast (all versions) linux macos file structure the browser/ directory contains styles specific to firefox the toolkit/ directory contains styles that are shared across all toolkit applications (thunderbird and seamonkey) under each of those two directories, there is a themes directory containing 4 sub-directories: shared linux osx windows the shared directories contain styles shared across all 3 platforms, while the other 3 directories contain styles respective to their platform.

Contributing to the Mozilla code base
fix your pet peeve if there's something you'd like to fix about firefox, thunderbird, or your other favorite mozilla application, this can be a great place to start.

mach
just install thunderbird from sources out of the aur repo!

Developer guide
build instructions how to build firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, or other mozilla applications.

Gecko SDK
the sdk follows the same release schedule as firefox/thunderbird.

Getting Started with Chat
for example, do not talk about thunderbird issues in #firefox.

How to get a process dump with Windows Task Manager
(to get a process dump for thunderbird or some other product, substitute the product name where ever you see firefox in these instructions.) caution the memory dump that will be created through this process is a complete snapshot of the state of firefox when you create the file, so it contains urls of active tabs, history information, and possibly even passwords depending on what you are doing when the snapshot is taken.

How to get a stacktrace for a bug report
seamonkey and thunderbird also support crash reporting.

How to get a stacktrace with WinDbg
(to get a stacktrace for thunderbird or some other product, substitute the product name where ever you see firefox in this instructions.) requirements to get such a stacktrace you need to install the following software: debugging tools for windows microsoft distributes the debugging tools for windows for free, those include windbg which you will need here.

Addon
getdatadirectory() requires gecko 32.0(firefox 32.0 / thunderbird 32.0 / seamonkey 2.29) returns the path of the preferred directory, within the current profile, where an add-on should store data files.

Add-on Manager
detecting add-on changes requires gecko 7.0(firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) you can also get lists of add-ons that, at startup, were changed in various ways.

DeferredTask.jsm
the deferredtask constructor requires gecko 18.0(firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15) if you have a function call you want to defer for two seconds, you can do so using the deferredtask constructor, like this: var task = new deferredtask(myfunction, 2000); you can also pass a generator function as the first argument of constructor.

Using JavaScript code modules
unloading code modules requires gecko 7.0(firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) components.utils.unload() allows you to unload a previously imported code module.

Bootstrapping a new locale
if you are interested in localizing thunderbird 3, seamonkey 2 or other mozilla projects based on gecko 1.9.1 you'll need to follow the instructions on getting the source-code of the comm-central repository.

Localization content best practices
in the case of firefox and thunderbird, string frozen repositories are: mozilla-aurora, mozilla-beta, mozilla-release.

Localizing extension descriptions
localizing before gecko 1.9 before gecko 1.9, add-on developers must go through a special process to define localized add-on descriptions for add-ons targeting toolkit-based apps (such as firefox or thunderbird).

Localizing with Mozilla Translator
getting started with mozillatranslator mt uses products as groups of localization files with a common root directory (for instance, you may have a product for thunderbird, other for seamonkey, other for dom, other for toolkit, etc.) you update your repository copy using your favorite repository tool, and then update the product(s) in mt.

Patching a Localization
the steps below are fairly generic; for the most part they apply to creating l10n patches for firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, or calendar.

Localization prerequisites
needed for development of firefox 3.5/seamonkey 2.0/thunderbird 3.0 and later.

QA phase
er the following lines in your .mozconfig file: mk_add_options moz_objdir=@topsrcdir@/../firefox-build ac_add_options --disable-compile-environment ac_add_options --with-l10n-base=../l10n-central # path relative to moz_objdir ac_add_options --enable-application=[browser or mail] you will need to specify which application you're localizing in the fourth line (e.g., for firefox, that's browser, thunderbird would be mail).

Fonts for Mozilla's MathML engine
ex gyre garamond math (under development) latin modern math libertinus math lucida bright math minion math stix math tex gyre bonum math tex gyre pagella math tex gyre schola math tex gyre termes math xits math fira math (sans-serif typeface, under development) gfs neohellenic math (sans-serif typeface) using mathematical fonts on web pages starting with gecko 31.0 (firefox 31.0 / thunderbird 31.0 / seamonkey 2.28), it is now easy to set up the css style (and optional woff fonts) to use on your web site.

MathML Torture Test
to get the best rendering, be sure to have appropriate mathematical fonts installed on your system and to use a browser with opentype math support such as gecko 31.0 (firefox 31.0 / thunderbird 31.0 / seamonkey 2.28) or higher.

Mozilla MathML Status
the mathvariant attribute is fully supported starting with (firefox 28.0 / thunderbird 28.0 / seamonkey 2.25).

A brief guide to Mozilla preferences
the values are saved to the user profile (in prefs.js), for both firefox and thunderbird.

browser.dom.window.dump.file
type:string default value:none exists by default: no application support: gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) status: active; last updated 2012-03-18 introduction: pushed to nightly on 2009-04-24 bugs: bug 489938 values the value holds the file system path for the file in which the content of the window.dump() calls get written, e.g.

dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
type:boolean default value:true exists by default: no application support: gecko 13.0 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10) status: active; last updated 2012-02-15 introduction: pushed to nightly on 2012-02-14 bugs: bug 542938 values true (default) the oncopy, oncut and onpaste events are enabled for web content.

ui.SpellCheckerUnderline
type:string default value:#ff0000 exists by default: no application support: gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) status: active; last updated 2012-02-21 introduction: pushed to nightly on 2009-04-03 bugs: bug 338209 values a color code like #ff0000 for red.

ui.SpellCheckerUnderlineStyle
type:integer default value:5 exists by default: no application support: gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) status: active; last updated 2012-02-22 introduction: pushed to nightly on 2009-04-03 bugs: bug 338209 values the values are defined in nsstyleconsts.h.

ui.alertNotificationOrigin
type:integer default value:dependent on position of taskbar or equivalent exists by default: no application support: gecko 1.8.1.2 (firefox 2.0.0.2 / thunderbird 2.0.0.4 / seamonkey 1.1) status: active; last updated 2012-02-22 introduction: pushed to nightly on 2007-01-04 bugs: bug 133527 values 0 bottom right corner, vertical slide-in from the bottom 1 bottom right corner, horizontal slide-in from the right 2 bottom left corner, vertical slide-in from the bottom 3 bottom left corner, horizontal slide-in from the left 4 top right corner, vertical slide-in from the top 5 top right corner, horizontal slide-in from the right 6 top l...

ui.tooltipDelay
type:integer default value:500 exists by default: no application support: gecko 11.0 (firefox 11.0 / thunderbird 11.0 / seamonkey 2.8) status: active; last updated 2012-02-21 introduction: pushed to nightly on 2011-12-15 bugs: bug 204786 values integer (milliseconds, default: 500) the time for delay between the mouse stopping over the element and the tooltip appearing is stored in milliseconds and the default value is 500ms.

Preference reference
javascript.options.showinconsolethe preference javascript.options.showinconsole controls whether errors or warnings in chrome code are shown in the error console.javascript.options.stricttechnical review completed.mail.tabs.drawintitlebarstarting in thunderbird 17.0, the tabs are drawn in the title bar.

Preferences system
example: var features = "chrome,titlebar,toolbar,centerscreen,modal"; window.opendialog(url, "preferences", features); bugzilla the component for bugs in the preferences bindings (but not in firefox/thunderbird options ui) is toolkit:preferences (file a bug list open bugs) ...

Profile Manager
by default, profile manager will manage firefox profiles, but you can also use it to work with profiles of other xulrunner apps, like thunderbird or seamonkey.

AsyncTestUtils extended framework
the asynctestutils extended framework is one mechanism for testing the mailnews component of thunderbird.

Programs Using NSPR
the following programs are known to use nspr, or portions of it: gecko using programs (mozilla application suite, firefox, thunderbird, camino, etc.) many fedora/red hat and sun server applications.

An overview of NSS Internals
you might have been motivated to work with nss because it is used by the mozilla applications such as firefox, thunderbird, etc.

FIPS Mode - an explanation
so, in order for mozilla firefox and thunderbird to be usable by people who are subject to the fips regulations, mozilla's cryptographic software must be able to operate in a mode that is fully compliant with fips 140.

NSS 3.43 release notes
78db3e1d8cf4f9726a795da1643ca5f1358e1ddb0edc0d7eb3 cn = hongkong post root ca 3 sha-256 fingerprint: 5a2fc03f0c83b090bbfa40604b0988446c7636183df9846e17101a447fb8efd6 the following ca certificates were removed: none bugs fixed in nss 3.43 bug 1528669 and bug 1529308 - improve gyp build system handling bug 1529950 and bug 1521174 - improve nss s/mime tests for thunderbird bug 1530134 - if docker isn't installed, try running a local clang-format as a fallback bug 1531267 - enable fips mode automatically if the system fips mode flag is set bug 1528262 - add a -j option to the strsclnt command to specify sigschemes bug 1513909 - add manual for nss-policy-check bug 1531074 - fix a deref after a null check in seckey_setpublicvalue bug 1517714 - properly handle es...

Overview of NSS
nss provides a complete open-source implementation of the crypto libraries used by aol, red hat, google, and other companies in a variety of products, including the following: mozilla products, including firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, and firefox os.

PKCS11 FAQ
mozilla, thunderbird, and netscape products that use nss have different ui to get the the security devices dialog.

NSS tools : certutil
for example, this how-to article covers how to configure firefox and thunderbird to use the new shared nss databases: * https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db_howto for an engineering draft on the changes in the shared nss databases, see the nss project wiki: * https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db see also pk12util (1) modutil (1) certutil has arguments or operations that use features defined in several ietf rfcs.

NSS tools : modutil
for example, this how-to article covers how to configure firefox and thunderbird to use the new shared nss databases: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db_howto for an engineering draft on the changes in the shared nss databases, see the nss project wiki: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db see also certutil (1) pk12util (1) signtool (1) the nss wiki has information on the new database design and how to configure applications to use it.

NSS tools : pk12util
for example, this how-to article covers how to configure firefox and thunderbird to use the new shared nss databases: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db_howto for an engineering draft on the changes in the shared nss databases, see the nss project wiki: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db see also certutil (1) modutil (1) the nss wiki has information on the new database design and how to configure applications to use it.

certutil
for example, this how-to article covers how to configure firefox and thunderbird to use the new shared nss databases: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db_howto for an engineering draft on the changes in the shared nss databases, see the nss project wiki: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db see also pk12util (1) modutil (1) certutil has arguments or operations that use features defined in several ietf rfcs.

NSS tools : modutil
for example, this how-to article covers how to configure firefox and thunderbird to use the new shared nss databases: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db_howto for an engineering draft on the changes in the shared nss databases, see the nss project wiki: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db see also certutil (1) pk12util (1) signtool (1) the nss wiki has information on the new database design and how to configure applications to...

NSS tools : pk12util
for example, this how-to article covers how to configure firefox and thunderbird to use the new shared nss databases: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db_howto for an engineering draft on the changes in the shared nss databases, see the nss project wiki: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db see also certutil (1) modutil (1) the nss wiki has information on the new database design and how to configure applications to use it.

NSS tools : signver
for example, this how-to article covers how to configure firefox and thunderbird to use the new shared nss databases: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db_howto for an engineering draft on the changes in the shared nss databases, see the nss project wiki: o https://wiki.mozilla.org/nss_shared_db see also signtool (1) the nss wiki has information on the new database design and how to configure applications to use it.

Proxies in Necko
proxies and local hosts requires gecko 9.0(firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) starting with gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6), proxy servers are not used when accessing hosts with no dots in their names, if manual proxy configuration is used and "<local>" is added to the "no proxy for:" text field field.

Introduction to the JavaScript shell
note: starting with spidermonkey 44 (firefox 44 / thunderbird 44 / seamonkey 2.41), the standard, web-compatible javascript version is used by default (and not js1.7+ anymore).

JS_NewObject
starting with gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5), you can create a new object in a specific compartment using the components.utils.createobjectin() method.

SpiderMonkey: The Mozilla JavaScript runtime
js debugger api reference api reference for the debugger object introduced in spidermonkey 1.8.6, which corresponds to gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5).

Mozilla Projects
mailnews is the back end of the messaging parts of seamonkey and thunderbird.

AT Development
guidelines at apis implementation by gecko at vendors guide to support gecko-based applications like firefox, thunderbird and so on.

Feed content access API
firefox 2 and thunderbird 2 introduce a series of interfaces that make it easy for extension authors to access rss and atom feeds.

Places Developer Guide
note: the method importhtmlfromfiletofolder() method was removed in gecko 14.0 (firefox 14.0 / thunderbird 14.0 / seamonkey 2.11).

Preferences API
many applications including firefox and thunderbird have an additional tool for power users, about:config, which can be used to tweak the preferences without ui.

FUEL
the library has also been implemented in thunderbird ("steel") and in seamonkey ("smile").

SMILE
the library has also been implemented in firefox ("fuel") and in thunderbird ("steel").

XPCOM array guide
for example: // melements is an nscomarray<nsielement> nsfoo::getelements(nsisimpleenumerator** aresult) { return ns_newarrayenumerator(aresult, melements); } deleting objects requires gecko 6.0(firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) introduces the removeobjectsat() method to nscomarray<t>.

How to build an XPCOM component in JavaScript
for a new component in firefox/thunderbird/b2g if you are adding a new feature to applications in the mozilla-central repository, you can create a makefile listing the idl files and the build system will automatically generate the typelib.

How to build a binary XPCOM component using Visual Studio
not the simplest thing to do and it may be incompatible with production releases of firefox, thunderbird, and xulrunner from mozilla.

Components.utils.Sandbox
as of gecko 13 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10), if you don't specify a sandbox name it will default to the caller's filename.

IAccessibleTable2
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: iunknown last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) please also refer to the iaccessibletablecell interface.

IAccessibleTableCell
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: iunknown last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) method overview [propget] hresult columnextent([out] long ncolumnsspanned ); [propget] hresult columnheadercells([out, size_is(, ncolumnheadercells,)] iunknown cellaccessibles, [out] long ncolumnheadercells ); [propget] hresult columnindex([out] long columnindex ); [propget] hresult isselected([out] boolean isselected ); [propget] hresult rowcolumnextents([out] long row, [out] long column, [out] long rowextents, [out] long columnextents, [out] boolean isselected ); [propget] hresult rowextent([out] long nr...

IJSDebugger
1.0 66 introduced gecko 9.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) implemented by: @mozilla.org/jsdebugger;1 as a service: var jsdebugger = components.classes["@mozilla.org/jsdebugger;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.ijsdebugger); note: you should almost never directly use this service; instead, you should use the javascript code module that does this for you.

amIInstallCallback
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void oninstallended(in astring aurl, in print32 astatus); methods oninstallended() called when an install completes or fails.

amIInstallTrigger
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview boolean enabled(); boolean install(in nsivariant aargs, [optional] in amiinstallcallback acallback); boolean installchrome(in pruint32 atype, in astring aurl, in astring askin); deprecated since gecko 2.0 boolean startsoftwareupdate(in astring aurl, [optional] in print32 aflags); deprecated since gecko 2.0 boolean updateenabled(); deprecated since gecko 2.0 constants retained for backwards compatibility.

amIWebInstallListener
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview boolean onwebinstallblocked(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); void onwebinstalldisabled(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); boolean onwebinstallrequested(in n...

amIWebInstallPrompt
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview void confirm(in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri auri, [array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant ainstalls, [optional] in pruint32 acount); prior to gecko 8.0, all references to nsidomwindow used in this interface were nsidomwindow.

amIWebInstaller
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview boolean installaddonsfromwebpage(in astring amimetype, in nsidomwindow awindow, in nsiuri areferer, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring auris, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring ahashes, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring anames, [array, size_is(ainstallcount)] in wstring aicons, [optional] in amiinstallcallback acallback, [optional] in pruint32 ainstallcount); boolean isinstallenabled(in astring amimetype, in nsiuri areferer); note: prior to ge...

imgICache
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) as of firefox 18, there is no longer a single image cache.

imgILoader
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) implemented by @mozilla.org/image/loader;1 as a service: var imgiloader = components.classes["@mozilla.org/image/loader;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.imgiloader); method overview imgirequest loadimage(in nsiuri auri, in nsiuri ainitialdocumenturl, in nsiuri areferreruri, in nsiprincipal aloadingprincipal, in nsiloadgroup aloadgroup, in imgidecoderobserver aobserver, in nsisupports acx, in nsloadflags aloadflags, in nsisupports cachekey, in imgirequest arequest, in nsichannelpolicy channelpolicy); imgirequest loadimagewithchannel(in nsichannel achannel, in imgidecoderobser...

imgIRequest
inherits from: nsirequest last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview void cancelandforgetobserver(in nsresult astatus); imgirequest clone(in imgidecoderobserver aobserver); void decrementanimationconsumers(); imgirequest getstaticrequest(); void incrementanimationconsumers(); void lockimage(); void requestdecode(); void unlockimage(); attributes attribute type description corsmode long the cors mode that this image was loaded with.

inIDOMUtils
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 22.0 (firefox 22.0 / thunderbird 22.0 / seamonkey 2.19) implemented by: @mozilla.org/inspector/dom-utils;1 as a service: var inidomutils = components.classes["@mozilla.org/inspector/dom-utils;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.inidomutils); method overview void addpseudoclasslock(in nsidomelement aelement, in domstring apseudoclass); void clearpseudoclasslocks(in nsidomelement aelement); [implicit_jscontext] jsval colornametorgb(in domstring acolorname); nsiarray getbindingurls(in nsidomelement aelement); nsidomnodelist getchildrenfornode(in nsidomnode anode, in boolean ashowinganonymouscontent); ...

jsdIStackFrame
inherits from: jsdiephemeral last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) strict mode is on.

mozIAsyncFavicons
1.0 66 introduced gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 11.0 (firefox 11.0 / thunderbird 11.0 / seamonkey 2.8) nsifaviconservice handles this interface, so you do not need to directly create a new service.

mozIAsyncHistory
1.0 66 introduced gecko 24.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 24.0 (firefox 24.0 / thunderbird 24.0 / seamonkey 2.21) implemented by: @mozilla.org/browser/history;1 as a service: var asynchistory = components.classes["@mozilla.org/browser/history;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.moziasynchistory); method overview void getplacesinfo(in jsval aplaceidentifiers, in mozivisitinfocallback acallback); void isurivisited(in nsiuri auri, in mozivisitedstatuscallback acallback); void updateplaces(in moziplaceinfo, [optional] in mozivisitinfocallback acallback); methods g...

mozIColorAnalyzer
toolkit/components/places/mozicoloranalyzer.idlscriptable provides methods to analyze colors in an image 1.0 66 introduced gecko 17.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 17.0 (firefox 17.0 / thunderbird 17.0 / seamonkey 2.14) method overview void findrepresentativecolor(in nsiuri imageuri, in mozirepresentativecolorcallback callback); methods findrepresentativecolor() given an image uri, find the most representative color for that image based on the frequency of each color.

mozIJSSubScriptLoader
66 introduced gecko 1.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 28 (firefox 28 / thunderbird 28 / seamonkey 2.25 / firefox os 1.3) implemented by: @mozilla.org/moz/jssubscript-loader;1.

mozIPlaceInfo
toolkit/components/places/public/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface provides additional info for a places entry 1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) attributes attribute type description frecency long read only: the frecency of the place.

mozIPlacesAutoComplete
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void registeropenpage(in nsiuri auri); void unregisteropenpage(in nsiuri auri); constants constant value description match_anywhere 0 match anywhere in each searchable term.

mozIRepresentativeColorCallback
toolkit/components/places/mozicoloranalyzer.idlscriptable provides callback methods for mozicoloranalyzer 1.0 66 introduced gecko 17.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 17.0 (firefox 17.0 / thunderbird 17.0 / seamonkey 2.14) method overview void oncomplete(in boolean success, [optional] in unsigned long color); methods oncomplete() will be called when color analysis finishes.

mozIStorageBindingParams
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports you can only create mozistoragebindingparams objects by calling the mozistoragebindingparamsarray.newbindingparams().

mozIStorageBindingParamsArray
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports you can only create these objects by calling the mozistoragestatement.newbindingparamsarray().

mozIStorageCompletionCallback
last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void complete(); methods complete() called when an asynchronous storage routine has completed.

mozIStorageConnection
1.0 68 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) for a general overview on how to use this interface, see storage.

mozIStorageError
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports attributes attribute type description message autf8string a human readable error string with details; this may be null if no details are available.

mozIStoragePendingStatement
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void cancel(); methods cancel() cancels the pending statement.

mozIStorageProgressHandler
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview boolean onprogress(in mozistorageconnection aconnection); methods onprogress() the onprogress() method is called periodically while an sqlite operation is ongoing.

mozIStorageResultSet
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview mozistoragerow getnextrow(); methods getnextrow() returns the next row from the result set.

mozIStorageRow
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: mozistoragevaluearray method overview nsivariant getresultbyindex(in unsigned long aindex); nsivariant getresultbyname(in autf8string aname); methods getresultbyindex() returns the value from a specific column in the row, using a zero-based index to identify the column.

mozIStorageStatementCallback
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void handlecompletion(in unsigned short areason); void handleerror(in mozistorageerror aerror); void handleresult(in mozistorageresultset aresultset); constants constant value description reason_finished 0 the statement has finished executing normally.

mozIStorageStatementWrapper
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void initialize(in mozistoragestatement astatement); void reset(); boolean step(); void execute(); attributes attribute type description statement mozistoragestatement the statement that is wrapped.

mozIStorageVacuumParticipant
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) to create an instance of this interface, use the category manger, with the category "vacuum-participant".

mozIStorageValueArray
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview long gettypeofindex(in unsigned long aindex); long getint32(in unsigned long aindex); long long getint64(in unsigned long aindex); double getdouble(in unsigned long aindex); autf8string getutf8string(in unsigned long aindex); astring getstring(in unsigned long aindex); void getblob(in unsigned long aindex, out unsigned long adatasize, [...

mozITXTToHTMLConv
last changed in gecko 1.8.1 (firefox 2 / thunderbird 2 / seamonkey 1.1) inherits from nsistreamconverter implemented by @mozilla.org/txttohtmlconv;1 as a service: var ios = components.classes["@mozilla.org/txttohtmlconv;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.mozitxttohtmlconv); method overview unsigned long citeleveltxt(in wstring line, out unsigned long loglinestart) void findurlinplaintext(in wstring text, in long alength, in long apos, out long astartpos, out long aendpos) wstring ...

mozIThirdPartyUtil
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview boolean isthirdpartychannel(in nsichannel achannel, [optional] in nsiuri auri); boolean isthirdpartyuri(in nsiuri afirsturi, in nsiuri aseconduri); boolean isthirdpartywindow(in nsidomwindow awindow, [optional] in nsiuri auri); methods isthirdpartychannel() determine whether the given channel and its content window hierarchy is third party.

mozIVisitInfo
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) attributes attribute type description referreruri nsiuri read only: the referring uri of this visit.

mozIVisitStatusCallback
toolkit/components/places/moziasynchistory.idlscriptable this interface provides callback handling functionality for moziasynchistory.isurivisited 1.0 66 introduced gecko 11.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 11.0 (firefox 11.0 / thunderbird 11.0 / seamonkey 2.8) method overview void isvisited(in nsiuri auri, in boolean avisitedstatus); methods isvisited() called when the moziasynchistory.isurivisited() method's check to determine whether a given uri has been visited has completed.

nsIAboutModule
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview unsigned long geturiflags(in nsiuri auri); nsichannel newchannel(in nsiuri auri); constants constant value description uri_safe_for_untrusted_content (1 << 0) a flag that indicates whether a uri is safe for untrusted content.

nsIAbstractWorker
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsidomeventtarget last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) attributes attribute type description onerror nsidomeventlistener the error listener for the worker.

nsIAccelerometerUpdate
xpcom/system/nsiaccelerometer.idlnot scriptable replaced by nsidevicemotionupdate 1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 obsolete gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsiaccelerometer last changed in gecko 5.0 (firefox 5.0 / thunderbird 5.0 / seamonkey 2.2) this method is only used in content tabs to receive nsiacceleration data from the chrome process.

nsIAccessibilityService
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsiaccessibleretrieval method overview nsiaccessible createouterdocaccessible(in nsidomnode anode); nsiaccessible createrootaccessible(in nsipresshell ashell, in nsidocument adocument); nsiaccessible createhtml4buttonaccessible(in nsisupports aframe); nsiaccessible createhypertextaccessible(in nsisupports aframe); nsiaccessible createhtmlbraccessible(in nsisupports aframe); nsiaccessible createhtmlbuttonaccessible(in nsisupports aframe); nsiaccessible createhtmlaccessiblebymarkup(in nsiframe aframe, in nsiweakreference aweakshell, in nsidomnode adomnode); nsiaccessible createht...

nsIAccessible
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) overview this section provides short overview of methods and attributes of this interface.

nsIAccessibleEvent
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) attributes attribute type description accessible nsiaccessible the nsiaccessible associated with the event.

nsIAccessibleRole
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) constants constant value description role_nothing 0 used when accessible has no strong defined role.

nsIAccessibleTable
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview nsiaccessible getcellat(in long rowindex, in long columnindex); note: renamed from cellrefat in gecko 1.9.2 long getcellindexat(in long rowindex, in long columnindex); note: renamed from getindexat in gecko 1.9.2 astring getcolumndescription(in long columnindex); long getcolumnextentat(in long row, in long column); long getcolumnindexat(in long cellindex); note: renamed from getcolumnatindex in gecko 1.9.2 void getrowandcolumnindicesat(in long cellindex, out long rowindex, out long columnindex); astring getrowdescription...

nsIAccessibleTableCell
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) method overview boolean isselected(); attributes attribute type description columnextent long return the number of columns occupied by this cell.

nsIAccessibleTableChangeEvent
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) attributes attribute type description numrowsorcols long return the number of rows or cols.

nsIAlertsService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.7 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 22 (firefox 22 / thunderbird 22 / seamonkey 2.19) by default a message is displayed in a small window that slides up from the bottom of the screen, holds there for a few seconds, then slides down.

nsIAnnotationService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) implemented by: "@mozilla.org/browser/annotation-service;1".

nsIAppShell
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void create(inout int argc, inout string argv); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void dispatchnativeevent(in prbool arealevent, in voidptr aevent); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void exit(); void favorperformancehint(in boolean favorperfoverstarvation, in unsigned long starvationdelay); void getnativeevent(in prboolref arealevent, in voidptrref aevent); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void listentoeventqueue(in nsieventqueue aqueue, in prbool alisten); obsolete since gecko 1.9 void resumenative(); void run(); v...

nsIAppStartup_MOZILLA_2_0
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) in gecko 4.0 this interface was merged into the nsiappstartup interface.

nsIApplicationCache
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) each application cache has a unique client id for use with nsicacheservice.opensession() method, to access the cache's entries.

nsIApplicationCacheChannel
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsiapplicationcachecontainer last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void markofflinecacheentryasforeign(); attributes attribute type description chooseapplicationcache boolean when true, the channel will choose an application cache if one was not explicitly provided and none is available from the notification callbacks.

nsIApplicationCacheContainer
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) attributes attribute type description applicationcache nsiapplicationcache the application cache with which the object is associated.

nsIApplicationCacheNamespace
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) application caches can store a set of namespace entries that affect loads from the application cache.

nsIApplicationCacheService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) method overview void cacheopportunistically(in nsiapplicationcache cache, in acstring key); nsiapplicationcache chooseapplicationcache(in acstring key); nsiapplicationcache createapplicationcache(in acstring group); void deactivategroup(in acstring group); nsiapplicationcache getactivecache(in acstring group); nsiapplicationcache getapplicationcache(in acstring clientid); void getgroups([optional] out unsigned long count, [array, size_is(count), retval]...

nsIApplicationUpdateService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void adddownloadlistener(in nsirequestobserver listener); astring downloadupdate(in nsiupdate update, in boolean background); void pausedownload(); void removedownloadlistener(in nsirequestobserver listener); nsiupdate selectupdate([array, size_is(updatecount)] in nsiupdate updates, in unsigned long updatecount); attributes attribute type description backgroundchecker nsiupda...

nsIAsyncStreamCopier
inherits from: nsirequest last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) method overview void asynccopy(in nsirequestobserver aobserver, in nsisupports aobservercontext); void init(in nsiinputstream asource, in nsioutputstream asink, in nsieventtarget atarget, in boolean asourcebuffered, in boolean asinkbuffered, in unsigned long achunksize, in boolean aclosesource, in boolean aclosesink); methods asynccopy() starts the copy operation.

nsIAsyncVerifyRedirectCallback
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) this interface implements the callbacks passed to the nsichanneleventsink.asynconchannelredirect() method.

nsIAuthInformation
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) the caller of nsiauthprompt2.promptusernameandpassword() or nsiauthprompt2.promptpasswordasync() provides an object implementing this interface; the prompt implementation can then read the values here to prefill the dialog.

nsIAuthModule
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void getnexttoken([const] in voidptr aintoken, in unsigned long aintokenlength, out voidptr aouttoken, out unsigned long aouttokenlength); void init(in string aservicename, in unsigned long aserviceflags, in wstring adomain, in wstring ausername, in wstring apassword); void unwrap([const] in voidptr aintoken, in unsigned long aintokenlength, out voidptr aouttoken, out unsigned long aouttokenlength); void wrap([const] in voidptr aintoken, in unsigned long aintokenlength, in boolean confidential, out voidptr aouttoken, out unsigned lo...

nsIAutoCompleteObserver
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void onsearchresult(in nsiautocompletesearch search, in nsiautocompleteresult result); void onupdatesearchresult(in nsiautocompletesearch search, in nsiautocompleteresult result); methods onsearchresult() called when a search is complete and the results are ready.

nsIBidiKeyboard
a user is a bidirectional writer if they have keyboard layouts in both left-to-right and right-to-left directions (that is users who use arabic, iranian (persian), or israel (hebrew) keyboard layout, beside an us (english) layout.) inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) method overview boolean islangrtl(); void setlangfrombidilevel(in pruint8 alevel); attributes attribute type description havebidikeyboards boolean indicates whether or not the system has at least one keyboard for each direction (left-to-right and right-to-left) installed.

nsIBlocklistPrompt
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void prompt([array, size_is(acount)] in nsivariant aaddons, [optional] in pruint32 acount); methods prompt() prompt the user about newly blocked addons.

nsIBlocklistService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 29 (firefox 29 / thunderbird 29 / seamonkey 2.26) method overview unsigned long getaddonblockliststate(in jsval addon, [optional] in astring appversion, [optional] in astring toolkitversion); unsigned long getpluginblockliststate(in nsiplugintag plugin, [optional] in astring appversion, [optional] in astring toolkitversion); boolean isaddonblocklisted(in jsval addon, [optional] in astring appversion, [optional] in astring toolkitversion); constants constant value description state_not_blocked 0 state_softblocked 1 ...

nsIBrowserSearchService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) implemented by: @mozilla.org/browser/search-service;1.

nsICacheEntryDescriptor
inherits from: nsicacheentryinfo last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void close(); void doom(); void doomandfailpendingrequests(in nsresult status); string getmetadataelement(in string key); void markvalid(); nsiinputstream openinputstream(in unsigned long offset); nsioutputstream openoutputstream(in unsigned long offset); void setdatasize(in unsigned long size); void setexpirationtime(in pruint32 expirationtime); void setmetadataelement(in string key, in string value); void visitmetadata(in nsicachemetadatavisitor visitor); attributes attribute type description accessgranted nscacheaccessmode get the ac...

nsICacheListener
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 14 (firefox 14 / thunderbird 14 / seamonkey 2.11) method overview void oncacheentryavailable(in nsicacheentrydescriptor descriptor, in nscacheaccessmode accessgranted, in nsresult status); void oncacheentrydoomed(in nsresult status); methods oncacheentryavailable() this method is called when the requested access (or appropriate subset) is acquired.

nsICacheSession
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 14 (firefox 14 / thunderbird 14 / seamonkey 2.11) method overview void asyncopencacheentry(in acstring key, in nscacheaccessmode accessrequested, in nsicachelistener listener, [optional] in boolean nowait); void evictentries(); prbool isstorageenabled(); nsicacheentrydescriptor opencacheentry(in acstring key, in nscacheaccessmode accessrequested, in boolean blockingmode); void doomentry(in acstring key, in nsicachelistener listener); attributes attribute type description doomentriesif...

nsICancelable
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void cancel(in nsresult areason); methods cancel() call this method to request that this object abort whatever operation it may be performing.

nsICategoryManager
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) implemented by: @mozilla.org/categorymanager;1.

nsIChannel
inherits from: nsirequest last changed in gecko 19.0 (firefox 19.0 / thunderbird 19.0 / seamonkey 2.16) once a channel is created (via nsiioservice.newchannel()), parameters for that request may be set by using the channel attributes, or by calling queryinterface() to retrieve a subclass of nsichannel for protocol-specific parameters.

nsIChannelPolicy
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) this interface exists to allow the content policy mechanism to function properly during channel redirects.

nsIChromeFrameMessageManager
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsiframemessagemanager last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void loadframescript(in astring aurl, in boolean aallowdelayedload); void removedelayedframescript(in astring aurl); methods loadframescript() loads a script into the remote frame.

nsIClassInfo
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview nsisupports gethelperforlanguage(in pruint32 language); void getinterfaces(out pruint32 count, [array, size_is(count), retval] out nsiidptr array); attributes attribute type description classdescription string a human readable string naming the class, or null.

nsIClipboardOwner
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void losingownership(in nsitransferable atransferable); methods losingownership() this method notifies the owner of the clipboard transferable that the transferable is being removed from the clipboard.

nsICommandLine
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) components may implement the nsicommandlinehandler interface to add custom command line handling behavior.

nsICommandLineHandler
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) each command line handler is registered in the category "command-line-handler".

nsICommandLineRunner
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsicommandline method overview void init(in long argc, in nscharptrarray argv, in nsifile workingdir, in unsigned long state); void run(); void setwindowcontext(in nsidomwindow awindow); attributes attribute type description helptext autf8string process and combine the help text provided by each command-line handler.

nsIComponentManager
66 introduced gecko 0.7 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 8.0 (firefox 8.0 / thunderbird 8.0 / seamonkey 2.5) method overview void addbootstrappedmanifestlocation(in nsilocalfile alocation); void createinstance(in nscidref aclass, in nsisupports adelegate, in nsiidref aiid, [iid_is(aiid),retval] out nsqiresult result); void createinstancebycontractid(in string acontractid, in nsisupports adelegate, in nsiidref aiid, [iid_is(aiid),retval] out nsqiresult result); void getclassobject(in nscidref aclass, in nsiidref aiid, [iid_is(aiid),retval] out nsqiresult result); ...

nsICompositionStringSynthesizer
dom/interfaces/base/nsicompositionstringsynthesizer.idlscriptable this interface is a composition string synthesizer interface that synthesizes composition string with arbitrary clauses and a caret 1.0 66 introduced gecko 26 obsolete gecko 38 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 38.0 (firefox 38.0 / thunderbird 38.0 / seamonkey 2.35) this interface is obsoleted in gecko 38.

nsIContentPref
nsicontentpref dom/interfaces/base/nsicontentprefservice2.idlscriptable a content preference 1.0 66 introduced gecko 20.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 20.0 (firefox 20.0 / thunderbird 20.0 / seamonkey 2.17) attributes attribute type description domain astring read only.

nsIContentPrefCallback2
dom/interfaces/base/nsicontentprefservice2.idlscriptable callback used by nsicontentprefservice2 methods 1.0 66 introduced gecko 20.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 20.0 (firefox 20.0 / thunderbird 20.0 / seamonkey 2.17) method overview void handlecompletion(in unsigned short reason); void handleerror(in nsresult error); void handleresult(in nsicontentpref pref); constants constant value description complete_ok 0 complete_error 1 methods handlecompletion() called when the method finishes.

nsIContentPrefService
last changed in gecko 2 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) inherits from: nsisupports implemented by: @mozilla.org/content-pref/service;1.

nsIContentPrefService2
dom/interfaces/base/nsicontentprefservice2.idlscriptable asynchronous api for content preferences 1.0 66 introduced gecko 20.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 20.0 (firefox 20.0 / thunderbird 20.0 / seamonkey 2.17) description content preferences allow the application to associate arbitrary data, or "preferences", with specific domains, or web "content".

nsIContentSecurityPolicy
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview boolean permitsancestry(in nsidocshell docshell); void refinepolicy(in astring policystring, in nsiuri selfuri); void scanrequestdata(in nsihttpchannel achannel); void sendreports(in astring blockeduri, in astring violateddirective); short shouldload(in unsigned long acontenttype, in nsiuri acontentlocation, in nsiuri arequestorigin, in nsisupports acontext, in acstring amimetypeguess, in nsisupports aextra); short shouldprocess(in unsigned long acontenttype, in nsiuri aconte...

nsIContentView
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) see working with content views for details on how to use this api.

nsIContentViewManager
content/base/public/nsiframeloader.idlscriptable manages the content views contained in a browser 1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) to obtain a reference to the view manager for a document, you can queryinterface() the nsiframeloader object to nsicontentviewmanager.

nsIConverterInputStream
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsiunicharinputstream last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/intl/converter-input-stream;1.

nsIConverterOutputStream
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsiunicharoutputstream last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) implemented by: @mozilla.org/intl/converter-output-stream;1.

nsICookie2
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsicookie attributes attribute type description creationtime print64 the creation time of the cookie, in microseconds since midnight (00:00:00), january 1, 1970 utc.

nsICookieManager2
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsicookiemanager this interface is included in the services.jsm javascript code module.

nsICookieStorage
obsolete since gecko 2 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1)this feature is obsolete.

nsICrashReporter
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void annotatecrashreport(in acstring key, in acstring data); void appendappnotestocrashreport(in acstring data); void appendobjcexceptioninfotoappnotes(in voidptr aexception); native code only!

nsICryptoHash
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview acstring finish(in prbool aascii); void init(in unsigned long aalgorithm); void initwithstring(in acstring aalgorithm); void update([const, array, size_is(alen)] in octet adata, in unsigned long alen); void updatefromstream(in nsiinputstream astream, in unsigned long alen); constants hash algorithms thes...

nsICycleCollectorListener
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) the order of calls will be call to begin(); then for every node in the graph a call to noteobject() and calls to noteedge() for every edge starting at that node; then a call to begindescriptions(); then for every black node in the cycle collector graph a call to either describerefcountedobject() or to describegcedobject(); and then a call to end().

nsIDBChangeListener
(ainstigator) {}, onhdrpropertychanged: function(ahdrtochange, aprechange, astatus, ainstigator) {}, onevent: function(adb, aevent) {}, queryinterface: function(aiid) { if (!aiid.equals(components.interfaces.nsidbchangelistener) && !aiid.equals(components.interfaces.nsisupports)) throw components.results.ns_error_no_interface; return this; } }; and to attach it in thunderbird, we must call addlistener on a nsidbchangeannouncer, typically through a nsimsgdatabase.

nsIDOMChromeWindow
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void beginwindowmove(in nsidomevent mousedownevent); void getattention(); void getattentionwithcyclecount(in long acyclecount); void maximize(); void minimize(); void notifydefaultbuttonloaded(in nsidomelement defaultbutton); void restore(); void setcursor(in domstring cursor); attributes attribute type description browserdomwindow nsibrowserdomwindow the related nsibrowserdomwindow instance which provides access to yet another layer of utility functions by chrome script.

nsIDOMClientRect
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) attributes attribute type description bottom float y-coordinate, relative to the viewport origin, of the bottom of the rectangle box.

nsIDOMEvent
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 16.0 (firefox 16.0 / thunderbird 16.0 / seamonkey 2.13) note: as of gecko 16.0, the nsiprivatedomevent interface was merged into this interface.

nsIDOMEventTarget
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 9.0 (firefox 9.0 / thunderbird 9.0 / seamonkey 2.6) see the eventtarget documentation.

nsIDOMFile
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports this interface implements the dom file object; for complete documentation, read up on that.

nsIDOMFileError
obsolete since gecko 13.0 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10)this feature is obsolete.

nsIDOMFileReader
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports implemented by: @mozilla.org/files/filereader;1.

nsIDOMFontFace
1.0 66 introduced gecko 7.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) this object describes a single font.

nsIDOMFontFaceList
1.0 66 introduced gecko 7.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) method overview nsidomfontface item(in unsigned long index); attributes attribute type description length unsigned long the number of items in the list.

nsIDOMGeoGeolocation
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports implemented by: @mozilla.org/geolocation;1.

nsIDOMGeoPosition
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) attributes attribute type description address nsidomgeopositionaddress the address of the user's current location, if available.

nsIDOMGeoPositionAddress
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 obsolete gecko 14.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 11 (firefox 11 / thunderbird 11 / seamonkey 2.8) this object is obtained from an nsidomgeopositionaddress object via its address attribute.

nsIDOMGeoPositionCallback
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) method overview void handleevent(in nsidomgeoposition position); methods handleevent() called when new position information is available.

nsIDOMGeoPositionCoords
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports attributes attribute type description latitude double the user's current latitude, in degrees.

nsIDOMGeoPositionError
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports attributes attribute type description code short numerical error code; see error constants for a complete list.

nsIDOMGeoPositionErrorCallback
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) method overview void handleevent(in nsidomgeopositionerror position); methods handleevent() called to handle a geolocation error.

nsIDOMGeoPositionOptions
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports attributes attribute type description enablehighaccuracy boolean if true, high accuracy mode is used.

nsIDOMGlobalPropertyInitializer
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) an xpcom component implementing this interface can be exposed to web content as a property on the window.

nsIDOMHTMLAudioElement
last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) inherits from: nsidomhtmlmediaelement method overview unsigned long long mozcurrentsampleoffset(); void mozsetup(in pruint32 channels, in pruint32 rate); [implicit_jscontext] unsigned long mozwriteaudio(in jsval data); methods mozcurrentsampleoffset() non-standard this feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track.

nsIDOMHTMLTimeRanges
last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) inherits from: nsisupports method overview float start(in unsigned long index); float end(in unsigned long index); attributes attribute type description length unsigned long the number of ranges represented by the nsidomhtmltimeranges object.

nsIDOMMouseScrollEvent
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsidommouseevent last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) gecko 1.9.2 note prior to gecko 1.9.2, this inherited from nsisupports instead of from nsidommouseevent.

nsIDOMMozNetworkStatsData
1.0 66 introduced gecko 18.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 18.0 (firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15) attributes attribute type description rxbytes unsigned long the number of bytes received on the connection.

nsIDOMMozNetworkStatsManager
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 18.0 (firefox 18.0 / thunderbird 18.0 / seamonkey 2.15) implemented by: @mozilla.org/networkstatsmanager;1.

nsIDOMMozTouchEvent
last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) inherits from: nsidommouseevent method overview void initmoztouchevent(in domstring typearg, in boolean canbubblearg, in boolean cancelablearg, in nsidomabstractview viewarg, in long detailarg, in long screenxarg, in long screenyarg, ...

nsIDOMNavigatorDesktopNotification
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) property that extends the navigator object.

nsIDOMOfflineResourceList
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void mozadd(in domstring uri); boolean mozhasitem(in domstring uri); domstring mozitem(in unsigned long index); void mozremove(in domstring uri); void swapcache(); void update(); attributes attribute type description mozitems nsidomofflinere...

nsIDOMOrientationEvent
last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) inherits from: nsidomevent method overview void initorientationevent(in domstring eventtypearg, in boolean canbubblearg, in boolean cancelablearg, in double x, in double y, in double z); attributes attribute type description x double the amount of tilt along the x axis.

nsIDOMProgressEvent
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 deprecated gecko 22 inherits from: nsidomevent last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) the nsidomprogressevent is used in the media elements (<video> and <audio>) to inform interested code of the progress of the media download.

nsIDOMSimpleGestureEvent
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsidommouseevent last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) the nsidomsimplegestureevent interface is the datatype for all mozilla-specific simple gesture events in the document object model.

nsIDOMStorage
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) a dom window's session storage object can be retrieved from the window's sessionstorage attribute.

nsIDOMStorage2
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void clear(); domstring getitem(in domstring key); domstring key(in unsigned long index); void removeitem(in domstring key); void setitem(in domstring key, in domstring data); attributes attribute type description length unsigned long the number of keys stored in local storage.

nsIDOMStorageItem
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) gecko 1.9.1 note starting in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5), this is only used for session storage; previously, it was also used for global storage.

nsIDOMStorageList
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview nsidomstorage nameditem(in domstring domain); methods nameditem() called when the list of available access points changes.

nsIDOMStorageManager
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) implemented by @mozilla.org/dom/storagemanager;1 as a service: var domstoragemanager = components.classes["@mozilla.org/dom/storagemanager;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsidomstoragemanager); method overview void clearofflineapps(); nsidomstorage getlocalstorageforprincipal(in nsiprincipal aprincipal, in domstring adocumenturi); long getusage(in astring aownerdomain); methods clearofflineapps() clears keys owned by offline applications.

nsIDOMStorageWindow
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8.1 obsolete gecko 8.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) in gecko 8.0 this interface has been merged into nsidomwindow, and this interface has been removed.

nsIDOMWindow
66 introduced gecko 1.0 deprecated gecko 44 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) starting with firefox 44, this file is empty as its features were either no longer used or are only available from c++ code; see dom/base/nspidomwindow.h for those.

nsIDebug2
xpcom/base/nsidebug2.idlscriptable adds access to additional information in debug builds of mozilla code by expanding upon the features in nsidebug 1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsidebug last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) attributes attribute type description assertioncount long the number of assertions since process start.

nsIDeviceMotion
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) note: this interface was named nsidevicemotion prior to gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3).

nsIDeviceMotionData
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) note: this interface was named nsidevicemotiondata prior to gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3).

nsIDeviceMotionListener
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) method overview void onmotionchange(in nsidevicemotiondata amotiondata); methods onmotionchange() called when new orientation or acceleration data is available.

nsIDialogCreator
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void opendialog(in unsigned long atype, in acstring aname, in acstring afeatures, in nsidialogparamblock aarguments, [optional] in nsidomelement aframeelement); constants constant value description unknown_dialog 0 generic_dialog 1 select_dialog 2 methods opendialog() void opendialog( in unsigned long atype, in acstring aname, in acstring afeatures, in nsidialogparamblock aarguments, in nsidomelement aframeelement optional ); parameters atype aname afeatures aarguments aframeelement optional ...

nsIDictionary
66 introduced gecko 1.0 obsolete gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisummary last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) note: this interface was removed in firefox 3.5; use dict.jsm instead.

nsIDirIndexListener
they can then be transformed into an output format (such as rdf, html and so on) inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void onindexavailable(in nsirequest arequest, in nsisupports actxt, in nsidirindex aindex); void oninformationavailable(in nsirequest arequest, in nsisupports actxt, in astring ainfo); methods onindexavailable() called for each directory entry.

nsIDirectoryEnumerator
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void close(); attributes attribute type description nextfile nsifile the next file in the sequence.

nsIDirectoryIterator
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void init(in nsifilespec parent, in boolean resolvesymlink); boolean exist(); void next(); attributes attribute type description currentspec nsifilespec init() void init( in nsifilespec parent, in boolean resolvesymlink ); parameters parent resolvesymlink exist() boolean exists(); next() void next(); ...

nsIDiskCacheStreamInternal
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void closeinternal(); methods closeinternal() we use this method internally to close nsdiskcacheoutputstream under the cache service lock.

nsIDownload
download objects are used by the download manager (see nsidownloadmanager to manage files that are queued to download, being downloaded, and finished being downloaded.) inherits from: nsitransfer last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) note: once the download is completed, the download manager stops updating the nsidownload object.

nsIDragDropHandler
last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) inherits from: nsisupports method overview void detach(); void hookupto(in nsidomeventtarget attachpoint, in nsiwebnavigation navigator); methods detach() unregisters all handlers related to drag and drop.

nsIDragSession
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void getdata( in nsitransferable atransferable, in unsigned long aitemindex ); boolean isdataflavorsupported( in string adataflavor ); attributes attribute type description candrop boolean set the current state of the drag, whether it can be dropped or not.

nsIDroppedLinkHandler
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview boolean candroplink(in nsidomdragevent aevent, in prbool aallowsamedocument); astring droplink(in nsidomdragevent aevent, out astring aname, [optional] in boolean adisallowinherit); void droplinks(in nsidomdragevent aevent, [optional] in boolean adisallowinherit, [optional] out unsigned long acount, [retval, array, size_is(acount)] out nsidroppedlinkitem alinks); methods candroplink() determines if a link being dragged can be dropped.

nsIDroppedLinkItem
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) attributes attribute type description url domstring url of the dropped link.

nsIEditorMailSupport
editor/idl/nsieditormailsupport.idlscriptable provides simple editing actions for the thunderbird mail editor.

nsIEffectiveTLDService
remarks note: prior to gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1), this method worked if you passed host strings starting with a period (".").

nsIEventListenerInfo
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) method overview nsisupports getdebugobject(); astring tosource(); attributes attribute type description allowsuntrusted boolean indicates whether or not the event listener allows untrusted events.

nsIEventListenerService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) implemented by: @mozilla.org/eventlistenerservice;1.

nsIEventSource
content/base/public/nsieventsource.idlscriptable this is the interface for server-sent dom events 1.0 66 introduced gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) this implements the eventsource interface used for server-sent events.

nsIExternalURLHandlerService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview nsihandlerinfo geturlhandlerinfofromos(in nsiuri aurl, out boolean afound); methods geturlhandlerinfofromos() given a url, looks up the handler info from the operating system.

nsIFaviconDataCallback
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void oncomplete(in nsiuri auri, in unsigned long adatalen, [const,array,size_is(adatalen)] in octet adata, in autf8string amimetype); methods oncomplete() called when the required favicon's information is available.

nsIFeed
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsifeedcontainer last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) attributes attribute type description cloud nsiwritablepropertybag2 the cloud element on a feed is used to identify the api endpoint of an rsscloud ping server, which distributes notifications of changes to this feed.

nsIFeedContainer
toolkit/components/feeds/public/nsifeedcontainer.idlscriptable this interface provides standard fields used by both feeds (nsifeed) and feed entries (nsifeedentry) 1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsifeedelementbase last changed in gecko 1.8.1 (firefox 2 / thunderbird 2 / seamonkey 1.1) method overview void normalize(); attributes attribute type description authors nsiarray an array of nsifeedperson objects describing the authors of the feed or entry.

nsIFeedElementBase
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) attributes attribute type description attributes nsisaxattributes all the attributes found on the element.

nsIFeedEntry
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsifeedcontainer last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) attributes attribute type description content nsifeedtextconstruct the full text of the entry's content.

nsIFeedGenerator
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsifeedelementbase last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) attributes attribute type description agent astring the name of the software that created the feed.

nsIFeedPerson
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsifeedelementbase last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) attributes attribute type description email astring the person's email address.

nsIFeedProcessor
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8.1 inherits from: nsistreamlistener last changed in gecko 1.8.1 (firefox 2 / thunderbird 2 / seamonkey 1.1) implemented by: @mozilla.org/feed-processor;1.

nsIFeedProgressListener
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsifeedresultlistener last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void handleentry(in nsifeedentry entry, in nsifeedresult result); void handlefeedatfirstentry(in nsifeedresult result); void handlestartfeed(in nsifeedresult result); void reporterror(in astring errortext, in long linenumber, in boolean bozo); methods handleentry() called after each entry or item is processed.

nsIFeedResult
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void registerextensionprefix(in astring anamespace, in astring aprefix); attributes attribute type description bozo boolean the feed processor sets the bozo bit when a feed triggers a fatal error during xml parsing.

nsIFeedResultListener
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void handleresult(in nsifeedresult result); methods handleresult() called when feed processing is complete.

nsIFeedTextConstruct
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8.1 (firefox 2 / thunderbird 2 / seamonkey 1.1) implemented by: @mozilla.org/feed-textconstruct;1, but users usually don't need to create instances of this directly.

nsIFileProtocolHandler
inherits from: nsiprotocolhandler last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) method overview nsifile getfilefromurlspec(in autf8string url); autf8string geturlspecfromactualfile(in nsifile file); autf8string geturlspecfromdir(in nsifile file); autf8string geturlspecfromfile(in nsifile file); nsiuri newfileuri(in nsifile afile); nsiuri readurlfile(in nsifile file); methods getfilefromurlspec() converts the url string into the corresponding nsifile if possible.

nsIFileURL
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) attributes attribute type description file nsifile get/set nsifile corresponding to this url.

nsIFormHistory2
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) note: this interface provides no means to access stored values.

nsIFrameLoader
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) note: this interface works in tandem with the nsicontentview interface to manage frames across processes if electrolysis is in use to support per-frame processes.

nsIFrameLoaderOwner
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview [noscript, notxpcom] alreadyaddrefed_nsframeloader getframeloader(); void swapframeloaders(in nsiframeloaderowner aotherowner); attributes attribute type description frameloader nsiframeloader the frame loader owned by this nsiframeloaderowner.

nsIFrameMessageListener
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) this interface is used when implementing out-of-process handling of frames; the process handling a frame should implement this interface in order to receive messages.

nsIFrameMessageManager
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 obsolete gecko 17.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 17.0 (firefox 17.0 / thunderbird 17.0 / seamonkey 2.14) this interface is obsolete and was removed in firefox 17.

nsIGSettingsCollection
1.0 66 introduced gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) method overview boolean getboolean(in autf8string key); long getint(in autf8string key); autf8string getstring(in autf8string key); void setboolean(in autf8string key, in boolean value); void setint(in autf8string key, in long value); void setstring(in autf8string key, in autf8string value); methods getboolean() boolean getboolean( in autf8string key ); parameters key return value getint() long getint( in autf8string key ); parameters key return value getstring() autf8string getstring( in autf8string key ); parameters key ...

nsIGSettingsService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) implemented by: @mozilla.org/gsettings-service;1 as a service: var gsettingsservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/gsettings-service;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsigsettingsservice); method overview nsigsettingscollection getcollectionforschema(in autf8string schema); methods getcollectionforschema() nsigsettingscollection getcollectionforschema( in autf8string schema ); parameters schema return value ...

nsIGeolocationUpdate
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) interface provides a way for a geolocation provider to notify the system that a new location is available.

nsIHTMLEditor
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 5.0 (firefox 5.0 / thunderbird 5.0 / seamonkey 2.2) method overview void adddefaultproperty(in nsiatom aproperty, in astring aattribute, in astring avalue); void addinsertionlistener(in nsicontentfilter infilter); void align(in astring aalign); boolean breakisvisible(in nsidomnode anode); boolean candrag(in nsidomevent aevent); void checkselectionstateforanonymousbuttons(in nsiselection aselection); nsidomelement createanonymouselement(in astring atag, in nsidomnode aparentnode, in astring aanonclass, in boolean aiscreatedhidden); nsidomelement createelementwithdefaults(in astring atagnam...

nsIHapticFeedback
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) implemented by: @mozilla.org/widget/hapticfeedback;1 as a service: var hapticfeedback = components.classes["@mozilla.org/widget/hapticfeedback;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsihapticfeedback); once you have the service, you can initiate haptic feedback (that is, cause the device to vibrate, if it's supported) by calling performsimpleaction(): hapticfeedback.performsimpleaction(components.interfaces.nsihapticfeedback.longpress); method overview void performsimpleaction(in long is...

nsIHttpActivityDistributor
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsihttpactivityobserver last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) implemented by: mozilla.org/network/http-activity-distributor;1 as a service: var httpactivitydistributor = components.classes["@mozilla.org/network/http-activity-distributor;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsihttpactivitydistributor); method overview void addobserver(in nsihttpactivityobserver aobserver); void removeobserver(in nsihttpactivityobserver...

nsIHttpActivityObserver
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) method overview void observeactivity(in nsisupports ahttpchannel, in pruint32 aactivitytype, in pruint32 aactivitysubtype, in prtime atimestamp, in pruint64 aextrasizedata, in acstring aextrastringdata); attributes attribute type description isactive boolean true when the interface is active and should observe http activity, otherwise false.

nsIHttpChannelInternal
66 introduced gecko 1.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) method overview void getrequestversion(out unsigned long major, out unsigned long minor); void getresponseversion(out unsigned long major, out unsigned long minor); void httpupgrade(in acstring aprotocolname, in nsihttpupgradelistener alistener); void setcookie(in string acookieheader); void setupfallbackchannel(in string afallbackkey); attributes attribute type description canceled boolean returns true if and only if the chan...

nsIHttpUpgradeListener
1.0 66 introduced gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) this is used, for example, by websockets in order to upgrade an http channel to use the websocket protocol.

nsIINIParser
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) typically, you'll create an nsiiniparser object by calling nsiiniparserfactory.createiniparser().

nsIINIParserFactory
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) see example for how to use this interface.

nsIINIParserWriter
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.2 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 13.0 (firefox 13.0 / thunderbird 13.0 / seamonkey 2.10) this interface provides methods that allow writing to ini-format configuration files.

nsIIdleService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 16 (firefox 16 / thunderbird 16 / seamonkey 2.13) you can get the idle time directly, but in most cases you will want to register an observer for a predefined interval.

nsIInProcessContentFrameMessageManager
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsicontentframemessagemanager last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview nsicontent getownercontent(); violates the xpcom interface guidelines methods violates the xpcom interface guidelines getownercontent() nsicontent getownercontent(); parameters none.

nsIInputStream
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 17.0 (firefox 17.0 / thunderbird 17.0 / seamonkey 2.14) an input stream may be "blocking" or "non-blocking" (see the isnonblocking() method).

nsIInstallLocation
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 obsolete gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) note: while this api still works, firefox 4 no longer extracts xpis by default, so this will now point to the xpi file instead of to the directory.

nsIJetpack
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview void sendmessage(in astring amessagename /* [optional] in jsval v1, [optional] in jsval v2, ...

nsIJetpackService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) implemented by: @mozilla.org/jetpack/service;1.

nsIJumpListBuilder
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) jump lists are built and then applied.

nsIJumpListItem
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) note: to consumers: it's reasonable to expect we'll need support for other types of jump list items (an audio file, an email message, etc.).

nsILivemarkService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 obsolete gecko 22.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) this interface is obsolete.

nsILoginInfo
last changed in gecko 1.9.1 (firefox 3.5 / thunderbird 3.0 / seamonkey 2.0) inherits from: nsisupports implemented by: @mozilla.org/login-manager/logininfo;1.

nsILoginManager
toolkit/components/passwordmgr/public/nsiloginmanager.idlscriptable used to interface with the built-in password manager 1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9.2 (firefox 3.6 / thunderbird 3.1 / fennec 1.0) replaces nsipasswordmanager which was used in older versions of gecko.

nsILoginManagerCrypto
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) method overview astring decrypt(in astring ciphertext); astring encrypt(in astring plaintext); attributes attribute type description isloggedin boolean current login state of the token used for encryption.

nsILoginManagerStorage
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) for example, if you wish to provide operating system integration with a native password manager system, implementing and registering a storage module for the login manager is how you do it.

nsILoginMetaInfo
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.9.1 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) you can specifically modify these values by passing changes into nsiloginmanager.modifylogin() using an nsipropertybag2 object as the input.

nsIMacDockSupport
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsimacdocksupport last changed in gecko 11.0 (firefox 11.0 / thunderbird 11.0 / seamonkey 2.8) implemented by: @mozilla.org/cookie-monster;1.

nsIMarkupDocumentViewer
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) method overview void scrolltonode(in nsidomnode node); void sizetocontent(); attributes attribute type description allowplugins boolean if true, plugins are allowed within the doc shell.

nsIMemoryMultiReporter
1.0 66 introduced gecko 7.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 12.0 (firefox 12.0 / thunderbird 12.0 / seamonkey 2.9) if you want to gather multiple measurements in a single operation (such as a single traversal of a large data structure), you can use a multi-reporter to do so.

nsIMemoryMultiReporterCallback
1.0 66 introduced gecko 7.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 7.0 (firefox 7.0 / thunderbird 7.0 / seamonkey 2.4) method overview void callback(in acstring process, in autf8string path, in print32 kind, in print32 units, in print64 amount, in autf8string description, in nsisupports closure); methods callback() called to provide information from a multi-reporter.

nsIMenuBoxObject
inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) to get access to the box object for a given menu, use code like this: var boxobject = xulmenu.boxobject.queryinterface(components.interfaces.nsimenuboxobject); method overview boolean handlekeypress(in nsidomkeyevent keyevent); void openmenu(in boolean openflag); attributes attribute type description activechild nsidomelement the currently active menu or menuitem child of the menu box.

nsIMessageListenerManager
1.0 66 introduced gecko 17 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 41 (firefox 41 / thunderbird 41 / seamonkey 2.38) implemented by: @mozilla.org/globalmessagemanager;1.

nsIMessageWakeupService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 2.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 2.0 (firefox 4 / thunderbird 3.3 / seamonkey 2.1) note: this service was introduced in gecko 5.0 on firefox for android, but was not provided on desktop until gecko 13.0 (firefox 13).

nsIMessenger
to create an instance, use: messenger = components.classes["@mozilla.org/messenger;1"] .createinstance(components.interfaces.nsimessenger); in thunderbird, a global nsimessenger object is defined as messenger via the createmessenger function in mailwindow.js.

nsIMicrosummary
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 obsolete gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) warning: microsummary support was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) method overview void addobserver(in nsimicrosummaryobserver observer); boolean equals(in nsimicrosummary aother); void removeobserver(in nsimicrosummaryobserver observer); void update(); attributes attribute type description content astring the content of the microsummary.

nsIMicrosummaryGenerator
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 obsolete gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) warning: microsummary support was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) method overview long calculateupdateinterval(in nsidomnode apagecontent); boolean equals(in nsimicrosummarygenerator aother); astring generatemicrosummary(in nsidomnode apagecontent); attributes attribute type description loaded boolean has the generator itself (which may be a remote resource) been loaded.

nsIMicrosummaryObserver
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 obsolete gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) warning: microsummary support was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) method overview void oncontentloaded(in nsimicrosummary microsummary); void onelementappended(in nsimicrosummary microsummary); void onerror(in nsimicrosummary microsummary); methods oncontentloaded() called when an observed microsummary updates its content.

nsIMicrosummaryService
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 obsolete gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) warning: microsummary support was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) implemented by: @mozilla.org/microsummary/service;1 as a service: var microsummaryservice = components.classes["@mozilla.org/microsummary/service;1"] .getservice(components.interfaces.nsimicrosummaryservice); method overview void addgenerator(in nsiuri generatoruri); nsimicrosummary createmicrosummary(in nsiuri pageuri, in nsiuri g...

nsIMicrosummarySet
1.0 66 introduced gecko 1.8 obsolete gecko 6.0 inherits from: nsisupports last changed in gecko 1.8 (firefox 1.5 / thunderbird 1.5 / seamonkey 1.0) warning: microsummary support was removed in gecko 6.0 (firefox 6.0 / thunderbird 6.0 / seamonkey 2.3) method overview void addobserver(in nsimicrosummaryobserver observer); nsisimpleenumerator enumerate(); void removeobserver(in nsimicrosummaryobserver observer); methods addobserver() add a microsummary observer to this microsummary set.

Building an Account Manager Extension
the javascript file has to be saved either in the extension's or thunderbird's component directory.

nsIMsgAccountManagerExtension
the nsimsgaccountmanagerextension interface is used to add a new panel to thunderbird's account manager.

nsIMsgDBViewCommandUpdater
last changed in gecko 1.9 (firefox 3) inherits from: nsisupports in thunderbird this is implemented for different windows in several different places: nsmsgdbviewcommandupdater (for the standalone message window) nsmsgdbviewcommandupdater (for the threadpane message window) nsmsgsearchcommandupdater (for search dialogs) method overview void updatecommandstatus(); void displaymessagechanged(in nsimsgfolder afolder, in astring asubject, in acstring akeywords); void updatenextmessageafterdelete(); methods updatecommandstatus() called when the number of selected items changes.

nsIMsgFolder
the nsimsgfolder interface is used to interact with folders in thunderbird.