阅读理解FireFox浏览器插件开发文档（一）

昨天白天用官方示例在主机安装了FF插件，然而晚上回寝室用VS2013并没有成功，不禁想起了那句话“程序员都是好男人，他们每天都会反省自己，我又错在哪了”。

言归正传，今天的目标是阅读理解FF插件官方文档，我这菜鸡一般的英语水平勉强能应付。

一、Initialization
当一个插件加载了，在创建第一个实例之前就会调用NPError NP_Initialize(void) {};分配内存资源给所有实例使用。
对应的NP_Shutdown函数是在最后一个实例销毁糊调用，用来释放NP_Initialize分配的内存资源

/* Define global variable to hold the user agent string. */
static char* userAgent = NULL;

/* Initialize function. */
NPError NP_Initialize(void)
{
  /* Get the user agent from the browser. */
  char* result = NPN_UserAgent();
  if (result == NULL) return NPERR_OUT_OF_MEMORY_ERROR;

  /* Allocate some memory so that you can keep a copy of it. */
  userAgent = (char*) NPN_MemAlloc(strlen(result) + 1);
  if (userAgent == NULL) return NPERR_OUT_OF_MEMORY_ERROR;

  /* Copy the string to your memory. */
  strcpy(userAgent, result);

  return NPERR_NO_ERROR;
}

/* Shutdown function */
NPError NP_Shutdown(void)
{
  /* Delete the memory you allocated. */
  if (userAgent != NULL)
    NPN_MemFree(userAgent);

  return NPERR_NO_ERROR;
}

userAgent 是什么，“用户代理”？算了暂时不管了，反正它是个全局静态指针变量。指的是NPN_UserAgent（）得到的资源。

二、MIMEType
在初始化的时候，浏览器会去数MIMEType类型的已被注册的插件。接着看看怎么注册插件吧。
“A MIME type is made up of a major type (such as application or image) and a minor type, for example, image/jpeg.If you define a new MIME type for a plug-in, you must register it with IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). Until your new MIME type is registered, preface its name with “x-“, for example, image/x-nwim.”
IETF看不懂。我的FF浏览器application已经存在，所以我昨天修改的MIMEType没有加“x-”。

紧接着往后看我就炸了！
When a Gecko-based browser starts up, it checks certain directories for plug-ins, in this order:

Windows
1、Directory pointed to by MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable.
2、%APPDATA%\Mozilla\plugins, where %APPDATA% denotes per-user Application Data directory.
3、Plug-ins within toolkit bundles.
4、Profile directory\plugins, where Profile directory is a user profile directory.
5、Directories pointed to by HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MozillaPlugins*\Path registry value, where * can be replaced by any name.
6、Directories pointed to by HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MozillaPlugins*\Path registry value, where * can be replaced by any name.

奇怪啊，最开始我在
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\MozillaPlugins\添加@mozilla.com.cn/test可是浏览器并没有检测到我的插件啊，反而在HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\MozillaPlugins\添加时才有效果。现在再试一次，还是如此！
算了不较真了，除了最后一条，其他的在我电脑上都好用。

Mac OS X
1、~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins.
2、/Library/Internet Plug-Ins.
3、/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/Current/Resources.
4、Plug-ins within toolkit bundles.
5、Profile directory/plugins, where Profile directory is a user profile directory.

Linux
1、 Directory pointed to by MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable. For example:

#!/bin/bash
export MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
exec /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox

Which /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins this is path for folder with plugins,  /usr/lib64/firefox/firefox  this is path for firefox (binary file). 

2、 ~/.mozilla/plugins.
3、 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (on 64-bit systems, /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins is used instead).