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			{{Note\|This page contains preliminary documentation of the feature and is mainly of historical interest. The documentation is at [https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Extensions/Bootstrapped_extensions MDC].}}

	__NOTOC__Bootstrapped add-ons are a special kind of add-on that developers can choose to use instead of normal add-ons in order to allow users to install and use the add-on without needing to restart the application. In order to do this, rather than the application loading chrome and components from the add-on it is up to the add-on developer to do all of this manually.		__NOTOC__Bootstrapped add-ons are a special kind of add-on that developers can choose to use instead of normal add-ons in order to allow users to install and use the add-on without needing to restart the application. In order to do this, rather than the application loading chrome and components from the add-on it is up to the add-on developer to do all of this manually.