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MozRepl lets you program Firefox and other Mozilla-based applications from the inside. Curious? See how.

Installation

Install from addons.mozilla.org.

(To use with XULRunner: Right-click → “Save Link As…” then save in your app’s extensions/ directory. See below for XULRunner-specific instructions.)

Former users of MozLab, please note: the MozLab extension contains an older version of MozRepl. If you have MozLab, remove it before installing MozRepl from this page.

How to use

• Starting the REPL
• Tutorial
• Troubleshooting
• Techniques

Platform and IDE integration

• Use with XULRunner (or Thunderbird, etc.)
• Emacs integration
• Use with Conkeror

Hacking & customizing

• Custom commands, an introduction
• Custom commands library
• Custom interactors, an introduction
• Custom interactors library

Related work

(If you wrote MozRepl-related modules, connectors, hacks etc., go ahead and add a link.)

• pymozrepl – Treat Javascript objects like Python objects.
• Fresno – Command-line access to MozRepl
• Pluggable Perl Interface
• MozRepl::RemoteObject – Treat Javascript objects like Perl objects
• WWW::Mechanize::FireFox – Web automation with FireFox driven through Perl
• .NET MozRepl connector
• PyRepl – In the works. Check the wiki page for an approach
• JsShellServer – A similar way to connect to Firefox
• Web Application Attack and Audit Framework – Apparently uses MozRepl
• fireprox – A simple proxy for MozRepl over HTTP GET using express/nodejs
• Kommissar – Interactive browser automation development with Emacs and Common Lisp

Third-party articles and tutorials

(Did you write any docs about MozRepl? Feel free to link it from here.)

• Fetching Android Market Stats with Python, MozRepl, and BeautifulSoup (via wayback machine)
• MozRepl is the most exciting Firefox extension I have ever seen
• (video) Controlling Firefox 3 from Emacs using a moz-repl interface
• (Italian) Ancora sull’automatizzazione di Firefox: MozRepl e JavaScript
• (Italian) MozRepl per non-Emacs users
• (english) MozRepl in a panel
• (Italian) Scaricare il contenuto di una cartella SkyDrive con Firefox e MozRepl
• Interactive HTML development in Emacs – Refresh an HTML a page in firefox as you type it in Emacs
• Lightweight MozRepl + Vim integration: Refresh Firefox, and restore scroll position on Vim save!
• (video) Browsing the web with Arduino and MozRepl (awesome)
• MozRepl Tools – Reload css or js (and Ext.component) through your editor.
• Peeking inside FireFox using MozRepl – Connecting to MozRepl with PHP

Support

Questions? For community support please post to the mailing list. The mailing list is about MozRepl-specific issues only, for questions about programming on the Mozilla platform post to the appropriate mozilla.dev group

For commercial one-on-one support, training, and software customization, please contact the author.