User:Jcranmer/Category Manager

One of the primary uses of the category manager is to be able to see all of the implementations of some class. In cases like this, the category entries are the contract IDs.

Known categories:

@mozilla.org/streamconv;1 (NS_ISTREAMCONVERTER_KEY)

Stream converters (implement nsIStreamConverter)

content-sniffing-services

Sniffs for MIME type from the content (implement nsIContentSniffer)

Parser data listener

Follow the data that the parser sees (implement nsIUnicharStreamListener)

Gecko-Content-Viewers

???

content-sniffing-services

???

geolocation-provider

Allow geolocation services (implement nsIGeolocationProvider)

XXX: http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mozilla/embedding/components/appstartup/src/nsAppStartupNotifier.cpp#64