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How does one access parts of firefox with an add-on, if no suitable api exists?

Specifically I would like to read and modify the content of the list of past downloads.

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Many parts of Firefox are written in XUL, which can be easily extended to add your own scripts and XUL to the page, which is a bit like inserting JS files and HTML into a web page, but for privileged content (addons and Firefox itself). For example, this manifest describes some additions I made to non-api'd code of Firefox to tweak some developer tools.

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