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 <pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Extension preferences should be stored in the "extensions." branch. So rather than "myextension.abcpref" it should "extensions.myextension.abcpref".</pre>
 == Use ctypes or NPAPI plugins rather than XPCOM  ==
-<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;">p.s. you might want to investigate if using ctypes or rewriting as a NPAPI plugin would work for your addon instead. <br>If so then the binaries wouldn't need recompiling for each Firefox release.
+<pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;">P.S. You should consider using ctypes rather than binary components if at all possible. Libraries loaded via ctypes do no need to be recompiled for each Gecko release, and often times stub libraries can be avoided altogether when a C linkage API is already available for the functionality that you need.</pre>
-    ctypes:
-    http://adblockplus.org/blog/binary-xpcom-components-are-dead-js-ctypes-is-the-way-to-go
-    NPAPI:
-    https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Plugins</pre>
 == Approval Notes  ==