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[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-gla]

[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/]</ref> While the extension was disabled by default, many users were confused and worried to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS".<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/ ([http://web.archive.org/web/20230610080325/https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/ Archived])</ref> This description was later expanded to include references to Mozilla's collaboration.<ref>Locking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250708193125/https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c Archived])</ref>

[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/] ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250331150343/https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ Archived])</ref> While the extension was disabled by default, many users were confused and worried to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS".<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/ ([http://web.archive.org/web/20230610080325/https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/ Archived])</ref> This description was later expanded to include references to Mozilla's collaboration.<ref>Locking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250708193125/https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c Archived])</ref>

When activated, the extension executes code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list. Every match is then wrapped in HTML span tags,<ref>looking glass extension injecting HTML https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27 ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250708193135/https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js Archived])</ref> and tooltips are injected to be displayed when the user hovers over these matches. CSS code is injected to make the words appear upside down and the tooltips work.<ref>Looking glass extension injecting CSS https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js#L78 ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250708193126/https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js Archived])</ref> Also three specific websites did have their headers changed to have a value "x-1057" injected.

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 [https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-gla]
-[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/]</ref> While the extension was disabled by default, many users were confused and worried to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS".<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension  https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/ ([http://web.archive.org/web/20230610080325/https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/ Archived])</ref> This description was later expanded to include references to Mozilla's collaboration.<ref>Locking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250708193125/https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c Archived])</ref>
+[https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ ss/] ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250331150343/https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/retrospective-looking-glass/ Archived])</ref> While the extension was disabled by default, many users were confused and worried to discover a unknown extension installed in their browser with a cryptic description "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS".<ref>Firefox's users worried about the looking glass extension  https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/ ([http://web.archive.org/web/20230610080325/https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7jh9rv/what_is_looking_glass/ Archived])</ref> This description was later expanded to include references to Mozilla's collaboration.<ref>Locking glass extension description changed https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250708193125/https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/commit/21ff53d2d5baab591d29b4ea5847d74cb6901b2c Archived])</ref>
 When activated, the extension executes code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list. Every match is then wrapped in HTML span tags,<ref>looking glass extension injecting HTML https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27 ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250708193135/https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js Archived])</ref> and tooltips are injected to be displayed when the user hovers over these matches. CSS code is injected to make the words appear upside down and the tooltips work.<ref>Looking glass extension injecting CSS https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js#L78 ([http://web.archive.org/web/20250708193126/https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/background.js Archived])</ref> Also three specific websites did have their headers changed to have a value "x-1057"  injected.