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


The extension when activated execute code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list, every words matched were wrap into HTML span tags,<ref>looking glass extension injecting HTML https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27</ref> tooltips were injected to be display when the user over these words, CSS code was injected to make the words appears 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</ref> Also three specific website did have their header changed to have a value "x-1057"  injected.
The extension when activated execute code on all websites visited by the user, searching for all words matching a list, every words matched were wrap into HTML span tags,<ref>looking glass extension injecting HTML https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/da464ac8f1c3b089405ca96fc68b999d2b624ef4/addon/webextension/content-script.js#L27</ref> tooltips were injected to be display when the user over these words, CSS code was injected to make the words appears 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</ref> Also three specific website did have their header changed to have a value "x-1057"  injected.