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Re:Chrome Gets Plugins: How to Write a Chrome Extension in T... by catch23 on Thursday March 19, 2009 @06:54AM (#523133)
In firefox, the only way to do cross domain xhr was to access a javascript object outside of the browser sandbox, make the call, then send the data back. I'd be pretty confident that google chrome's version would have the same security limitations.
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Re:Chrome Gets Plugins: How to Write a Chrome Extension in T... by andreyf on Friday March 20, 2009 @01:28AM (#524564)
Greasemonkey lets you do it - with GM_xmlhttpRequest:

http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/api/gm_xmlhttprequest.html

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