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MozRepl lets you program Firefox from the inside

36 points by Jebdm 17y ago

aboodman 17y ago
This idea isn't new. I used something just like this (but more ghetto) whenever I worked on Firefox extensions. It was called the Extension Developer Extension: http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/ http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/ It had other features, but the REPL was the most important to me. This looks much nicer though.
- zaach 17y ago
  That's not the same. MozRepl let's you execute JavaScript from, say, a terminal through a socket connection.
- wingo 17y ago
  > This idea isn't new In fact I would say it's a kind of a pattern: implementing REPLs for systems that weren't made with REPLs in mind. (That doesn't say anything about the coolness of this hack though, one way or the other :)
jorgem 17y ago
Any way to save changes to the browser?
troels 17y ago
http://www.croczilla.com/bits_and_pieces/jssh/ http://www.croczilla.com/bits_and_pieces/jssh/ Edit: Just realised that this is pure javascript, making it a lot easier to deploy than jssh, and also a lot more extensible. That is awesome.
dschoon 17y ago
I'm pretty sure ChromeBug (http://getfirebug.com/releases/#chromebug http://getfirebug.com/releases/#chromebug) lets you do this, though it has some trade-offs. On one hand, it's built on top of Firebug; this adds a lot of power (chrome inspection, javascript debugging/breakpoints in the chrome). On the other, it's alpha, and not the focus of development (as far as I can tell)--it hasn't had a new release in some time.
mark_h 17y ago
Emacs users may wish to check out this hack (reload browser via MozRepl on save): http://hyperstruct.net/projects/mozrepl/emacs-integration http://hyperstruct.net/projects/mozrepl/emacs-integration It's quite neat, but very easy to get confused: if you switch to a different tab to read documentation for example, then make an edit and save, it will try and load into the new tab (usually with strange results!)

3 ms·

MozRepl lets you program Firefox from the inside

36 points by Jebdm 17y ago

aboodman 17y ago
This idea isn't new. I used something just like this (but more ghetto) whenever I worked on Firefox extensions. It was called the Extension Developer Extension: http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/ http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/extensiondev/ It had other features, but the REPL was the most important to me. This looks much nicer though.
- zaach 17y ago
  That's not the same. MozRepl let's you execute JavaScript from, say, a terminal through a socket connection.
- wingo 17y ago
  > This idea isn't new In fact I would say it's a kind of a pattern: implementing REPLs for systems that weren't made with REPLs in mind. (That doesn't say anything about the coolness of this hack though, one way or the other :)
jorgem 17y ago
Any way to save changes to the browser?
troels 17y ago
http://www.croczilla.com/bits_and_pieces/jssh/ http://www.croczilla.com/bits_and_pieces/jssh/ Edit: Just realised that this is pure javascript, making it a lot easier to deploy than jssh, and also a lot more extensible. That is awesome.
dschoon 17y ago
I'm pretty sure ChromeBug (http://getfirebug.com/releases/#chromebug http://getfirebug.com/releases/#chromebug) lets you do this, though it has some trade-offs. On one hand, it's built on top of Firebug; this adds a lot of power (chrome inspection, javascript debugging/breakpoints in the chrome). On the other, it's alpha, and not the focus of development (as far as I can tell)--it hasn't had a new release in some time.
mark_h 17y ago
Emacs users may wish to check out this hack (reload browser via MozRepl on save): http://hyperstruct.net/projects/mozrepl/emacs-integration http://hyperstruct.net/projects/mozrepl/emacs-integration It's quite neat, but very easy to get confused: if you switch to a different tab to read documentation for example, then make an edit and save, it will try and load into the new tab (usually with strange results!)