hooks in browsers?

[Greg Broiles]

At 12:20 PM 4/10/2001 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>It's probably do-able to write a little application that runs
>on the host machine -- and when the browser loads a website,
>the application consults freenet asking for commentary from
>other clients about that website.
>
>You could do this a couple of ways; you could watch the history
>file for new URL's to tell you what URL has just been loaded,
>or the cache for HTML pages to see what HTML has just been loaded.
>And that could be the cue for your little application.
>
>Are there any more direct hooks into browsers?  Is there any
>"what URL is being displayed right now" API call for example?

You might find Protozilla, at <http://protozilla.mozdev.org/>, of interest.