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Re:Show HN: Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail by gkoberger on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @03:05PM (#6810748)
That probably won't work. The add-on reviewers are very strict about running arbitrary code loaded from somewhere else, and no add-on using it would be approved. (After all, you could change your code and store people's emails.)

That being said, you should be able to use this to load new selector strings for the API:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/...

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/webRequest.html

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Re:Show HN: Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail by joshuacc on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @03:54PM (#6811071)
It wouldn't necessarily need to be code. It could just be JSON data with updated selectors, etc. Just make sure you use JSON.parse on it, and there aren't any security issues from just fetching the data.
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Re:Show HN: Gmail.js – JavaScript API for Gmail by gkoberger on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @04:00PM (#6811102)
Yeah, that's what I'm saying -- you can't use this library from a CDN, but you could load JSON.
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