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The technique of attemping to load web accessible resources does not work in Firefox. For starters, Firefox uses moz-extension: instead of chrome-extension:, that's obviously trivial to adapt to, but Chrome then uses the extension's global identifier in those URLs, while Firefox uses a locally generated identifier, specifically to avoid this sort of fingerprinting.


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