[python-win32] firefox automation like ie automationthroughwin32com?

[Mark Hammond]

> Thanks, but I expected that someone might say "go and look
> into XPCOM, that
> might work". However, I haven't yet seen anyone who wrote a
> concrete example of using it with Python.
>
> Maybe the author of PyXPCOM might help us?

Sadly, that is me again :)  Unfortunately I don't use XPCOM much these days.

Last I checked, XPCOM is an application component model.  It makes no
attempt to support "out-of-process" components.  The mozctl COM bridge may
help, but I believe that it is targetted at allowing a "mozilla control
window" to be used in your COM app in the same way you HTMLHelp or Outlook
etc uses use an IE window - ie, it is still inside your application.

If fairly confident that is still true for XPCOM, and 99.9% confident that
is still true for pyXPCOM.  It simply isn't what XPCOM is trying to do.  I'm
not sure if Mozilla/Firefox now has or is developing a COM or any other
"automation" mechanism.

Mark