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I'm looking to create a browser plugin which would run in all of the major browsers, the only problem is that it seems I have to re-create the plugin in every browser. Is there some tool or framework or language I can write a plugin with where it will automatically work on all major browsers?

All I need the button to do is scrape webpage content off the active page and from a few of the linked pages, then send it to a program with sockets or named pipes.

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  • I'm not sure if this can be done in linux, if it's only Windows that's fine. – Daisetsu Sep 29 '10 at 16:21
  • Is the plugin you're trying to create something that definitely cannot be done in something like Java or Flash? – SingleNegationElimination Sep 30 '10 at 02:55
  • It has 1 purpose. Scrape the current page which will be search results. The search takes time so I can't re-run the search if I get just the search query, and the result page it seems isn't cached. I could do this through java but then the user would have to open a seperate program which is a real pain. – Daisetsu Sep 30 '10 at 21:35

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Maybe these "frameworks" can help you:

FireBreath

Juce

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