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A small program built into a browser that can perform special tasks, such as debugging.

A browser add-on can do almost anything. If you are in Chrome you can find add-ons from chrome.google.com/webstore/

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What is The difference between Firefox extension and plugin?

In Firefox there are plugins and extensions. Could you please explain to me why these addons have different name and tabs ? Does they differ so much so they need different names? I think it's a little unnatural to differ these things, extensions…
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Firefox add-ons: how to install my own local add-on (extension) permanently in Firefox?

I have my own browser extension with some personal website customizations. Works fine in Chrome, but doesn't work in Firefox. Unlike Chrome, it seems Firefox can't install unpacked extensions or add-ons. Only in debug mode I can do Load Temporary…
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Can you use Rust to write Firefox add-ons/extensions?

Mozilla has the Oxidation project: The goal of Oxidation is to make it easier and more pleasant to use Rust in Firefox, and correspondingly to increase the amount of Rust code in Firefox. But it does not mention anything about whether Rust is…
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How can I use a wildcard in uBlock Origin?

How can I use a wildcard in uBlock Origin? I've tried to figure out how to do it, but I'm a little bit confused. I just want to simplify all of these rules into one rule: www.dailymail.co.uk###js-article-text > div:nth-of-type(2) >…
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Javascript stop browser advertisement add ons

Is there any way to stop browser add-ons from injecting HTML code? I am having a website built in angularjs but because of some browser add-ons my route is getting messed up, this is the HTML snippet which is causing some errors in my…
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Firefox addon to find Unused CSS styles

Possible Duplicate: Tool to identify unused css definitions Lets say I have a page displayed in my browser and I have a .CSS file used on this page with rules like .class1{ /* some style definitions */ } .class2{ /* some style…
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How to capture the runtime html content/state with all styles applied and javascript removed

Shorter version of Question Is there any way to capture runtime html (current state of dom) with all styles applied /inlined of a dynamic(ajax/javascript) web page? Longer version What I would like to do is save current state of dom as single html…
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How to use firefox "hello world" sample extension?

I downloaded this Firefox sample extension from mozilla.org, I modified the file install.rdf and changed maxVersion value to 3.6.10 (also tried 3.6.*, 100 and *) and I added a new string with name "hello world" and the value is the path where the…
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Can I set up my safari extension to be installed when clicked instead of downloaded?

I have written, signed, and built a safari extension (.safariextz file). I have tried adding two mime type handlers to apache: AddType application/x-safari-extension .safariextz and also i have tried AddType application/octet-stream…
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how to set maximum version when creating a firefox addon xpi?

I'm trying to create an xpi package for a firefox addon through cfx tool. Once I ran "cfx xpi" command in the directory where my files are, an xpi package is generated. If I tried to install this package on current version of firefox (9.0), I get an…
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Vimperator-like addon for Internet Explorer

Is there any vimperator-like addon for Intenet Explorer? I'm most interested in something like the 'QuickHint' mode (in which you press 'f' and an unique number is assigned to every visible link(and typíng the number is equivalent to clicking the…
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Supporting custom URL protocol on Mac/Linux

This article discusses how to register an application for a custom protocol on Windows but [how] can the same be achieved on Mac & Linux? And is this always an OS-level task or does it have to be registered per-browser?
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Detecting a browser addon using JavaScript or C#?

We are writing a website in C#, and we need to detect if the client's browser has a certain (custom developed) add-on installed. We have figured out a way how to do it when the client is using Firefox or Internet Explorer. How can we do the same…
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About file handling in Javascript on Linux

I'm developing an addon for Firefox browser. My addon is intended to work on Linux platform specifically. How can I handle a file in Javascript on Linux? I've Googled a lot on this and all I got was file handling in Javascript on Windows using…
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Accessing Cookies in Chrome Extension

I'm trying to write a chrome extension that works with YouTube and need to access some of YouTube's cookie information. I cant seem to get my extension to see any cookies. (Even though I can see them under resources in the "Inspect Element"…
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