> I can't say for certain, but from what I know of how Mozilla 
> is built, all windows run under the same process.  So 
> cross-process communication isn't an issue.

the idea is to interact with a browser window without actually being a
part of the process - from another application (that is not neccessarily
a browser). i consider this method to be least invasive. plugins have to
be registered and unregistered, under windows, they tend to pollute the
process memory space, since they sometimes load additional modules as
well - besides that the underlying implementation for what i want to do
has already been written to work cross-process. if i remember correctly,
this is what microsofts COM idea was all about.

but i guess, as another mail told me (i dont know whether this is really
true), i am on my own when doing cross-process stuff with mozilla-based
browsers. i wonder how firefox can seriously compete with IE then, from
a programmers viewpoint?

does XPCOM provide any interfaces and implementations for cross-process
communication (proxy/stub dlls, the like) such as COM has?

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