Show HN: I'm Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers

Re:Show HN: I'm Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers by nullpt_rs on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @04:52PM (#45508709)

Someone mentioned this as well in another comment. Turns out most of this could’ve been done as an extension after all :-)

edit: actually, wouldn’t you still need to override the global you’d like to instrument? At that point, the toString of the modified function would leak your hook.

see: https://gist.github.com/voidstar0/179990efe918d1028b72f292cf...

Regardless, I do have some interesting ideas that should hopefully make my pain of compiling Chromium for 3 hours worth it though :p

Cheat Engine for site scripts? Who knows. Mostly just using this as an opportunity to learn some browser internals so id say it still paid off :)

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Re:Show HN: I'm Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers by coolelectronics on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @06:03PM (#45509496)

Your example proxies the console object, the intended way in this case is to make a proxy from the log function itself and use the apply hook

toString will be called on the Proxy and not your hook so it won't reveal anything

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Re:Show HN: I'm Building a Browser for Reverse Engineers by nullpt_rs on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @06:41PM (#45509852)

D'oh! You are correct :-) Good catch and thanks for teaching me something!

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