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Firefox add-on *is* source

Firefox add-on *is* source

Posted Oct 29, 2012 15:15 UTC (Mon) by CChittleborough (subscriber, #60775)
In reply to: Privacyfix by gmaxwell
Parent article: Privacyfix

Firefox extensions are almost always shipped as .xpi files, which are ZIP archives containing Javascript, CSS, etc ... plus, in rare cases, machine-specific compiled code. The Privacyfix add-on is not one of those rare cases. OTOH, it contains over 150,000 lines of Javascript, so reading it would take a while. (Based on a quick glance at a few random files, the code is nicely formatted and even has comments.)


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