I just logged into GMail with Firebug switched on ... and GMail knew! It puts up a message along the lines of "GMail might run slowly with Firebug installed". I can't figure out where in the code it's doing the detection though.
This isn't for anything particularly useful, I'm just interested.
Anyone have any ideas? Is it possible to list all the extensions a user has installed?
Detecting Firefox Plugins With Javascript
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Re: Detecting Firefox Plugins With Javascript
You can't detect plugins with Javascript.
I believe google is just checking if the console command, or DomInspector exist.
Although, there have been some trys at detecting plugins, but all use the same technique checking if that plugins function exist.
http://ha.ckers.org/weird/firefox-extentions.html
(Not accurate or to date though, I am using Web Developer, says Im not)
I believe google is just checking if the console command, or DomInspector exist.
Although, there have been some trys at detecting plugins, but all use the same technique checking if that plugins function exist.
http://ha.ckers.org/weird/firefox-extentions.html
(Not accurate or to date though, I am using Web Developer, says Im not)
Last edited by Zoxive on Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:55 am, edited 2 times in total.
Re: Detecting Firefox Plugins With Javascript
You can detect firebug with this code:
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window.console.firebug