XPI or also XPInstall (CROSS Platform Install; Discussion: zippy) of the Mozilla Foundation are developed file format for installation files.

This technology used around extensions, which increase the function range of the program to install. Programs such as Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Thunderbird or further XUL based applications use XPI.

A XPI file is a ZIP container, this contains a Installationsscript (install.rdf; in former times install.js) and other files.

Related links

• XPInstall project side (English)
• Mozilla Firefox

Articles in category "XPI"

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• File Extension Details for .XPI
  FILExt.com is the file extension source. Here you'll find a collection of file extensions; many linked to the programs that created the files.


• Learn XPI Installer Scripting by Example - MDC
  This article uses the installer script from browser.xpi install package as the ... XPI install scripts are written in JavaScript using XPInstall Engine ...


• The Extensions Mirror
  XPI, Author: Shawn Betts Version: 0.9 Size: 5KB Date: 2006-05-03 ... XPI, Author: Pawel Chmielowski and Carl Tanner Version: 0.4.931 (Dev) Size: 294KB ...


• XPInstall
  Learn XPI Installer Scripting by Example (Unix) , uses Mozilla's browser component to explain XPI archives and install scripts; Creating New Packages in ...