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Illegal URL

Robbendebiene edited this page Sep 11, 2018 · 2 revisions

Illegal URL

For security reasons add-ons are not allowed to open the following URL types:

  • chrome URLs (e.g. chrome://browser/content/browser.xul)
  • javascript URLs (e.g. javascript:alert("hello");)
  • data URLs (e.g. data:text/html,content...<p><a name%3D"bottom">)
  • file URLs (e.g. file://host/path)
  • privileged about URLs like about:config, about:addons, about:debugging