Re: Accessing Firefox programmatically

Jesper Sahner wrote:
> Instead of reinventing all the standard browser-functionality including 
> JavaScript in Java, I wonder if Firefox can be accessed programmatically 
> from outside using e.g. Java JNI? I guess it would be much more elegant 
> to access Firefox programmatically instead of emulating the same 
> functionality in Java.

An option would be to write a firefox chrome extension listening on a 
tcp port using nsIServerSocket. Then you have to setup your own protocol 
over this socket to request everything you need out of firefox from your 
java application.

/mig