What IPC method should I use between Firefox extension and C# code running on the same machine?

Question

I have a question about how to structure communication between a (new) Firefox extension and existing C# code.

The firefox extension will use configuration data and

Answer 1

I would personally used named pipes to do the communication instead of sockets. They're very low overhead, and very reliable on Windows.

This is very easy to use from C++ and from C#.