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Let’s say you’re developing a Firefox extension, and you need to look at the HTML of the page. You know […]
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Detecting page loads is a useful ability. It’s easy enough to throw in a
gBrowser.addEventListener(”load”, function_name, true);
But, it causes extra events to get generated. There’s load events occurring in the browser that aren’t page loads. The trick to detecting real page loads (but not Back/Forward navigation when the page is still in memory — only page […]
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