Re: how to test "free plugin service"?

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:39:40PM +0100, Alexander Sack <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:35:59PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 07:28:29PM +0100, Alexander Sack <address@hidden> 
> > wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 06:45:23PM +0100, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I created another page 
> > > > http://gnuzilla.gnu.org/plugins/PluginFinderServiceError.php?mimetype=%PLUGIN_MIMETYPE%&appID=%APP_ID%&appVersion=%APP_VERSION%&clientOS=%CLIENT_OS%&chromeLocale=%CHROME_LOCALE%
> > > >  that returns always error, have 
> > > > fun :)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > thanks a lot ... apparently the extension works well.
> > > 
> > > Will look how to move the privacy stuff to an extension next :).
> > > 
> > > Did you take a look at the adblock extension? How do they block ads?
> > > Maybe we can use similar hooks for some of the privacy features?
> > 
> > Never took a look at it, but I assume it's xbl-based. At least, the
> > privacy features of iceweasel could probably be done with a little xbl.
> > 
> 
> I guess you refer to privacy feature 1., but not 2. ("detect rewrite
> hostname")?

I'd say both are feasible with xbl, but i'm not 100% sure for the
second.

Mike