Trigger events from Firefox browser extension?

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Published on 2010-06-15T02:19:09Z Indexed on 2010/06/15 2:22 UTC
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Hello,

I want to trigger events from a firefox extension, specifically click events. I've tried jQuery's .click() as well as the whole:

 var evt = document.createEvent("HTMLEvents");
 evt.initEvent("click", true, false );
 toClick[0].dispatchEvent(evt);

This is not working for me, and I was wondering if this is even possible? (to trigger events from a firefox extension)?

If so, how does one do it?

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