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(In reply to Kris Maglione [:kmag] from comment #3)
> (In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him] from comment #2)
> > kmag: hello!  Before implementing something, I'd like to get some feedback from you.  What I want to do is add a "background task mode" to Firefox, so that when you run `firefox --backgroundtask FOO` the XPCOM graph and category registrations can depend on the specified background task.
> 
> I'm OK with the general idea, but I'd rather we only add support to the new static XPCOM manifest system and not to old-style `chrome.manifest` files. I'd rather not encourage people to use the latter for new code. Ideally I'd like to remove support for them at some point.

Understood, but there's a good deal of category registration that I need to disable for my immediate use case.  I don't think we can commit to completing the transition to static components for this particular project. 

> > ```
> >         'categories': {
> >             'command-line-handler': {
> >                 'category': 'm-browser',
> 
> Nit: this should be something like `'name'` or `'entryName'`, not `'category'`. The category, in this case, would be `command-line-handler`, and `m-browser` would be the name of this entry.

Roger that.  I'll knock something up and have you review it.  Thanks for the snappy rely, Kris!

(In reply to Kris Maglione [:kmag] from comment #3)
> (In reply to Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him] from comment #2)
> > kmag: hello!  Before implementing something, I'd like to get some feedback from you.  What I want to do is add a "background task mode" to Firefox, so that when you run `firefox --backgroundtask FOO` the XPCOM graph and category registrations can depend on the specified background task.
> 
> I'm OK with the general idea, but I'd rather we only add support to the new static XPCOM manifest system and not to old-style `chrome.manifest` files. I'd rather not encourage people to use the latter for new code. Ideally I'd like to remove support for them at some point.

Understood, but there's a good deal of category registration that I need to disable for my immediate use case.  I don't think we can commit to completing the transition to static components for this particular project. 

> > ```
> >         'categories': {
> >             'command-line-handler': {
> >                 'category': 'm-browser',
> 
> Nit: this should be something like `'name'` or `'entryName'`, not `'category'`. The category, in this case, would be `command-line-handler`, and `m-browser` would be the name of this entry.

Roger that.  I'll knock something up and have you review it.  Thanks for the snappy reply, Kris!