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this post was submitted on 28 Oct 2023
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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10602504/how-does-user-js-work-in-firefox-in-detail:
It just looks like a JavaScript file. Once upon a time in Netscape 3 and maybe 4 it actually was, but now it's just a file with a .js extension and a very restricted syntax that's parsed by a separate (non-JS) parser and not executed in any way.