- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:24:04 +0200
- To: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Cc: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
* Karl Dubost wrote: >An add-on for firefox, I wonder how hard it would be to make it >a bit more universal by using more neutral JS than some specific >Firefox features. The code is not that big, so many that would >be doable to port it for Opera, Chrome, and Safari. An extension such as this would require the ability to observe the requests the browser makes. Internet Explorer and Firefox allow it, but as far as I am aware Opera does not. You could try to go at it indirectly, like checking for certain JavaScript objects, but that is a lot of work and unreliable. Well, if you could hook into the debugger API then maybe, but I am not aware that's possible. I'd probably have made a tool for this if it was easy, but lately I've been more interested in learning what the trackers actually find reasonable to access, which largely requires tracing all the API calls, which turns out to require modifying the JavaScript im- plementation, which isn't very pretty with the few implementations where that is possible at all; I did that, but have since run out of drive space to prepare patches or results... -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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