Quick technical question

[Georgiy Ivankin]

Just a quick question to those knowing the internals: how does Firebug parses / edits stylesheets loaded from another domain? This is not allowed by the browser, so some workaround is probably used. I'd love to know how it's done: via some FF extensions API methods or elsewise?

Any tip is appreciated, be it a detailed explanation or a link to a method / module is source code. 

Thanks!

[Simon Lindholm]

For the CSS panel we simply use the standard method of `document.styleSheets` - since Firebug runs with higher ("chrome") JS privileges, this doesn't run up against same origin restrictions. (The "Source Edit" feature is more weird; there we use some internal API for capturing data from requests ("nsIChannel"s), so we are able to present the original source. It relates to Net panel code, which I don't know a lot about.)

[Ivankin Georgiy]

Thank you, Simon!

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