Can you get a list of Firefox add-ons programmatically

Question

I spent a lot of time trying to determine why my view of the site does not match customers, looking at the cache, etc., we determined that the problem is one of the add-ons (Adblock Plus in this particular case). It would be much simpler if we had an easy way to request which add-ons were installed and ideally active. Is there a way to generate a list programmatically, possibly using JavaScript?

Answer 1

No, you cannot do this using JavaScript / JavaScript. I suppose it would be a security risk if you could.

But there is an add-in that you can install that will create a printable, copyable list of installed extensions / add-ons.

Check out: "Extension list extension . "

Answer 2

You cannot get a complete list just using Javascript, but some addons allow validation anyway.

access to the chrome: // protocol is considered a security risk and is therefore disabled . However, you can still find the extension with a trick to load the image. What for? Since the extension, developers can mark their extension as a setting available on the Internet for the property "contentaccessible = yes" inside the chrome.manifest extension file. This, for example, is the case for two famous Firebug Toolbar and web developers plugins.

source: http://webdevwonders.com/detecting-firefox-add-ons/