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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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Create an unmodified object in a Firefox addon using WebExtensions

I'm building an addon that works on a page where the canvas element prototype has been modified, this means any new canvas element I create on the page or in the addon with have the same modified state. Is there a way to get around this? I tried…
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Updating IE Addon

Is it possible to get my Internet Explorer plugin to update itself without requiring a manual uninstall/reinstall using the .msi? I have been thinking of trying to do this programmatically but I am unsure as to what would need to be…
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How to efficiently track the total number of lines of code in my Ruby on Rails project on Cloud9 IDE?

IDE - Cloud9 - Metrics How do I efficiently track the total number of lines of code in my project? I assume I need a plugin It is a rails app, perhaps there is a gem available? Does chrome provider an inspector tool and/or plugin to accommodate…
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Firefox Add-On SDK - Script don't run

So first I did a jpm init in a folder dedicated to it. Then I would like to do basic DOM manipulation with certain page. That's what I've done : ff-main.js: var pageMod = require("sdk/page-mod"); pageMod.PageMod({ include: /\/*.facebook\.*/, …
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Firefox Addon MySql connection

I would like to connect a MySql database which is hosted at an online hosting service. I would like to use the WebExtensions APIs (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions). How can I program this with JavaScript? Thank you in…
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Calling of a python script from a browser add-on written in JavaScript

I am using the KangoExtension framework for developing an add-on. The add-on is written in JavaScript. How can I call a python-script which is a local file?
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getting firefox chrome-window from XPCOM component

I am writing an XPCOM object that will like to access the main firefox window, and the open tabBrowsers. What is the interface that I should use ?
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API for writing an addon for recording browser events

I'm aware of the Selenium IDE addon for Firefox. Looked at its source code too, but it is not becoming readily obvious to me what all API it is using to hook into the document and window events. I'm trying to write, from scratch, a very basic…
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detect from a server (by Javascript) that OCX is already installed(with regsvr32) at client machine

I have developed an ActiveX control as an OCX component and I register it with regsvr32 in client side. I have developed a local server (e.g tomcat) that when the user connects to it, first of all I want the server to detect whether the user which…
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Javascript: Change link Text to new Text padding or contracting the text to keep it the same size as original text

The scenario is via a browser extension (Add-On) a link's Text of unknown length on a page is changed to another textual value. The new Textual value must be the same length as the original ensuring that the site's formatting is not altered in any…
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Downloading a file from my mozilla addon sent by the server

I am developing a amozilla addon , and I have to download a file that is stored in the server. I would retrieve the file from the server using xmlHttpRequest. My question is how I download the response file in my browser from my mozilla addon
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Level of control in browser add-on code: How low can I go?

Never having written a browser add-on, it's difficult for me to phrase this question concisely (and search for existing work). When viewing a news media site, when I click on the link to a news story, I would like to see only the text of the…
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How to give Chrome Extension ability to Search a certain site

I'm trying to make a Chrome browser extension that lets you search my site. The search box on the site works. But when I add that same HTML code into my extension file, it doesn't work. Here is the code for my search box:
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Embed a Webcam URL in HTML and be able to view in Chrome and Firefox

I have a webcam (Dlink 942L.) The HTML code is listed in the comment below. (see comment below) 1. I am able to view the webcam in firefox but not in chrome. What should I do in order to be able to view also in Chrome? How do I embed the user…
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I need to debug my BrowserHelperObject (BHO) (in C++ with Visual Studio 2008) after a internet explorer 8 crash in Release mode

here is the situation, i'm developping a Browser Helper Object (BHO) in C++ with Visual Studio 2008, and i learned that the memory wasn't managed the same way in Debug mode than in Release mode. So when i run my BHO in debug mode, internet explorer…
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