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On 4/17/2012 6:28 AM, david bolter wrote:
> Does anti spyware count? Using accessibility API just to detect password
> fields seems a heavyweight to me.
>
> (Maybe that's our bad)
>
> Cheers,
> D

If I still understand correctly, that is the only ABI-stable way Mozilla 
exposes for other processes to see them.  (Extensions are ABI-hostile 
and API-slushy.  Also, in-process.)

-- 
Mook