Thanks for your interest in contributing to PassFF!
To get started, you'll need to fork and clone the repository.
For development or temporary testing in Firefox, open about:debugging and choose to load the add-on temporarily by selecting the file src/manifest.json in your git working directory.
For auto-reloading the extension on changes in a new profile, check out Mozilla's Web-ext.
You may also use the Firefox Debugger for faster and easier debugging. Quick introduction to Firefox Debugger.
You'll probably want to enable debug logs. Open the PassFF preferences from the menu or from about:addons and enable the preference "Enable logging to the JavaScript web console".
If you'd like to easily toggle dark mode, you can also add ui.systemUsesDarkTheme as the number 1 in about:config.
Please follow these conventions and amend to them when necessary.
Two spaces please!
At most 90 characters.
Always terminate statements with semicolons.
On the same line as the statement.
// good
if (true) {
// your code here
}
// bad
if (true)
{
// your code here
}
From the project's root directory, execute make VERSION=testing. This will create an XPI file in the project's bin/testing/ directory that you can install in your browser.
Note that Firefox will not accept unsigned extensions unless you deactivate xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config.