Change Browser settings by script

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You can read about it here - http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-scripts.html#privs

Also example available here: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-script-example.html

Browsers let extensions to interact with their core to certain level, but that's about it. You can read about Mozilla and Chrome extensions and see they interact with the browser through JavaScript, but this is only inside extensions, signed scripts and scripts located on user's hard drives.

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Updated on June 15, 2022

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  • jAndy
    jAndy almost 2 years

    Afaik, you can change/manipulate browser settings in Mozilla/Netscape browsers. For Instance "netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('someprivilege');"

    Of course the user gets informed about that and needs to verify the action.

    My question is, do other browser have similar functionality? IE, Safari/Chrome ?

    Kind Regards

    --Andy