About this extension

Injects an object CommandRun into every loaded page which provides a function run which allows to run commands of the operating system.
Allowed commands must be defined using the preference "extensions.commandrun.allowedcommands" which must be a JSON array, e.g. ["/usr/bin/touch","/bin/ls"].
You may then run the commands with javascript code like this:
CommandRun.run("/usr/bin/touch",["/tmp/commandruntest"]);

It requires installing a Native Messaging App as addons.mozilla.org won't install native apps. An App is included in the source.

Developer comments

The source code for the extension is now on github: https://github.com/berenddeschouwer/commandrun

Please do not hesitate to send feedback about bugs and improvement wishes to me.

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Release notes for 2.0

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