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Creating an iframe in Firefox extension code
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firefox_ext_iframe.js
if (Components && Components.classes) {
// This means we are in a Firefox extension.
var appShell = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/appshell/appShellService;1"]
.getService(Components.interfaces.nsIAppShellService);
// hiddenDoc will now point to a regular DOM document.
var hiddenDoc = appShell.hiddenDOMWindow.document;
// Create an iframe.
let iframe = hiddenDoc.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "iframe");
iframe.setAttribute("mozframetype", "content");
hiddenDoc.documentElement.appendChild(iframe);
// Load a page in it.
iframe.setAttribute("src", "http://google.com");
}
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Could you please answer me the below queries?

How use this js file in webpages?
How to create extension out of it?

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