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catch23 on March 19, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Chrome Gets Plugins: How to Write a Chrome Extensi...

well the cool thing about greasemonkey was that you could do a little more than just inject javascript code... for example, you could make cross domain xhr calls as well, and it did so by jumping out of the security sandbox to do this. I'm not so sure if it will be possible in chrome...

Semiapies on March 19, 2009 [–]

Fair enough; I've never had call to do that in my own GM scripts, but I can easily see the use.

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