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doug11235 on Nov 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail wit...

I didn't realize extensions were largely javascript. Thanks for the pointers.

jlgreco on Nov 20, 2012 [–]

Ah yeah. I believe the usual terminology is such that "extensions" are javascript and "addons" are something native. You could probably do cryto well with an addon.. to the extent that it is possible to do an addon at all properly (honestly I have no idea there).

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