I need a bookmarklet or a firefox extension to click 2 links select a value from a drop down click a button I doubt I can do that with a bookmarklet so figured a firefox extension would be needed. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Creating add-ons requires knowledge of javascript and XML. If you feel you are knowledgeable enough to handle that, I can send you the link to the mozilla dev site for creating add-ons.
javascript and XML is the first thing you might wanna learn first but that's not an easy thing to do.. Good luck..
Actually you might want to go with a stand alone application for this instead of doing it in firefox. As extensions are learning javascript, browser security modes (ie chrome:// file structure), xul (forms), xml, how to setup the xpi file properly, and lots of other stuff. You have to have at least a decent back ground in those area's in order to start to learn the ways of doing what you asked about. The javascript portion is easy to do, but the other stuff is a bit harder.
A standalone might need to be cross platform and also require programming that would be just as difficult and need learning of something to implement. Writing an extension for a browser that works everywhere might be easier and more useful. It would probably work in both Firefox and Chrome and probably easily modified to work in Opera.
Thanks for the input everyone. I've decided to can the extension idea and go with greasemonkey - easier debugging and it wasn't for other people to use. The extension wizard made it easy to get started though.