What do I have to do to get Firefox to display the add-on bar and XUL simultaneously?

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Published on 2011-11-30T23:17:47Z Indexed on 2011/12/01 1:51 UTC
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On MDN, the phrase "Add-on Manager-enabled XUL" is introduced.

By dragging a XPI file containing an add-on and dropping it onto a FireFox window, the addon's widgets will be installed in FireFox's add-on bar. By specifying the commandline option "-app application.ini" at the root of a chrome-structured directory, Firefox will display XUL using chrome:// protocol.

Since MDN makes me think that the two are not mutually exclusive, my question is, "What do I have to do to get Firefox 8.0.1 to display the add-on bar and XUL simultaneously?"

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