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		nephyrin on Sept 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My Quest for a New Browser Gecko exposes a large number of its interfaces to JS, and the entire Firefox frontend is written as such: http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/base/c...

spolu on Sept 12, 2013 [–]

Do you have access to cookies, localStorage from JS?

lucian1900 on Sept 12, 2013 | [–]

Yes. Any XPCOM object is usable from JS that runs inside Firefox chrome and most things are XPCOM objects.

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