Yet there are tools to make one addon for all major browsers at once, see: crossrider, kangoextensions and http://besttoolbars.net/products/addon_framework
With greasemonkey and a converter to a full firefox addon, i already made an addon, that does the following three simple things:
check http status of external links with wiki.greasespot.net/GM_xmlhttpRequest, (which won't work out with javascript alone as of cross-site-scriting policy.)
manipulate the current page/dom through some regex
inject an additional hosted javascript for automatic updates
but is there any "cross-browser addon maker" capable of the 3 things above? (especially http to external links like GM_xmlhttpRequest) and open source, free or at least free of their branding in the addons made with it?
or else what is the easierst way from my greasemonkey script to full addons for also
chrome,[opera,internet explorer,safari(or more)].
(i imagine this alone could be a few kb of code to match the requirnments above and doesnt need to be a complex service like crossrider?)
Thanks!=)