Yes. Security. There's a number of ways for scripts to break out of the sandbox, and for pages to manipulate that, and we work hard to keep that surface small enough to be safe.
You can make restartless addons, and they come with much less boilerplate than extensions of old. If you want a real extension, please make one. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:03 PM, rampion <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any reason *not* to make it available to script writers? > Then scripts could start reaching toward the full power of an addon, > but without requiring all the manifest and XML jargon that comes from > making an XPI, and without requiring a user to restart Firefox on > install. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "greasemonkey-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greasemonkey-users?hl=en.
