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Documentation for Component.utils.Sandbox may eventually show up on the [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Components.utils Component.utils] page, but it not there now. There is documentation for [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Components.utils.evalInSandbox Components.utils.evalInSandbox] which gives an example of Sandbox usage.
Documentation for Component.utils.Sandbox may eventually show up on the [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Components.utils Component.utils] page, but it not there now. There is documentation for [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Components.utils.evalInSandbox Components.utils.evalInSandbox] which gives an example of Sandbox usage.


For more information, see [Wikipedia:Sandbox_(computer_security)|wikipedia's article on the topic].
For more information, see [[Wikipedia:Sandbox_(computer_security)|wikipedia's article on the topic]].


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Revision as of 00:51, 24 January 2007

For security reasons, modern versions of Greasemonkey execute each script in a "sandbox", which isolates trusted user script code from potentially malicious web page code.

Documentation for Component.utils.Sandbox may eventually show up on the Component.utils page, but it not there now. There is documentation for Components.utils.evalInSandbox which gives an example of Sandbox usage.

For more information, see wikipedia's article on the topic.