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I know Gmail has contextual and side-bar gadgets, but how do browser extensions such as Rapportive work? Are they injecting their buttons / displays into the browser page? If so, wouldn't the browser extension break if Google decided to change the way they layout the page?

Jonathan Leffler
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Are they injecting their buttons / displays into the browser page?

Yes.

If so, wouldn't the browser extension break if Google decided to change the way they layout the page?

Probably.

cdhowie
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  • Thanks for the answer - is this conjecture or known fact? –  Nov 16 '10 at 16:08
  • It's a very educated guess. I'm not 100% positive (only the devs of the extension know) but I'm pretty confident that I'm right. ;) – cdhowie Nov 16 '10 at 19:17
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The probably leverage some part of the Gmail Greasemonkey API and inject scripts into the page to use this.

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