Building restartless Firefox extension with Addon SDK

Question

I am using the latest version from Firefox Addon SDK (https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk) to build my extension. Additionally I am using Erik Vold's toolbarbutton package (https://github.com/erikvold/toolbarbutton-jplib) to display the extension button in the top toolbar. When running cfx xpi and installing the extension it tells me everything went fine (no restart or whatsoever required) but the toolbar button only shows up when I am actually restarting the browser.

How can I make it really restartless?

Answer 1

Use the moveTo function to force insert the toolbar button on install. I believe it's a bug in the code but I haven't asked Erik about it.

Something like this will work:

var ToolbarButton = require('toolbarbutton').ToolbarButton;
var tbb = ToolbarButton(options);
tbb.moveTo(options);