On Feb 24, 7:07 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Am brand new to writing extensions for Firefox. I was looking at
> FireFTP and it looked like it didnt have support for Sftp. So I
> thought I would try and write one.

> I did go through quite a few pages on "How to write extensions". My
> question though is that most pages suggest writing it in Javascript.

yes.

> There was just 1 page which mentioned we could use Python or C++. I
> found a couple of SSH API's that I could use for C++ and Python but
> none for Javascript.

normally if gecko doesn't have support for what you need, you'd write
a C++ component that does and have it expose a scriptable XPCOM API,
from there you'd have your js code invoke methods on the scriptable
object.

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