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		cschneid on Nov 15, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Scriptable command line browser? Jaxer is server side javascript, with access to a DOM. When I looked at it (more than a year ago now), they accomplished that via a headless firefox 3. I'd guess they still do that, since it worked for them.

joshu on Nov 16, 2009 [–]

Yeah, I just assumed it was a javascript interpreter with a DOM. (Obviously you don't need a whole browser for that.)

I wonder what the performance implications are. Firefox seems way too... single-threaded?

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