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I have a very simple question, yet I can't seem to find an answer, and I don't even think th
at XPCOM (and PyXPCOM) is it. Is there a way to send information from a firefox extension (i
.e in javascript) to an external python program? For instance:
1) in javascript I add a button to a webpage with an eventListener.
2) onclick, some function is called. Ideally this function would send some information (a st
ring)
3) a separate standalone python program (running locally, and that would have nothing to do 
with firefox) would be listening and would intercept the string and use it and do something 
with it.

I have thought of using sockets, or writing files with javascript etc... But I am unable to 
find a solution of this problem. For comparison, the python win32com module allows to connec
t to IE. It seems that the same thing is not possible with firefox. It also seems that the s
tarting point for inter-process communication (if possible at all with ff) would start insid
e an extension.

I am not sure if I am clear or not. I would appreciate any help or pointer that could get me
 started.

Thank you very much.

M.E.

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