Windows Process Ref

Windows Process Ref turns a neon style, searchable Firefox sidebar into a glossary for reading process-monitoring output — the columns you see in a process viewer, and the command line service groups and flags that show up in svchost.exe and other Windows process command lines.

🏛 About This Tool:

• Windows process tools surface a lot of shorthand: column names like Private Bytes or Integrity Level, and command line groups like LocalSystemNetworkRestricted or NetworkService buried in a svchost -k argument.
• Windows Process Reference doesn't analyze your machine or any process — it's a static, curated glossary you search when you need to know what a term actually means.

📐 Desktop Sidebar Design: 🗂 Three Category Tabs: Columns, Svc Groups, and CLI Flags — switch between them with one click. 🔍 Instant Search: Type and the list filters live across names and descriptions, no button press needed. 🔢 Live Count: Shows how many entries match your current search, right next to the search box. 🃏 Comment-Style Cards: Every term shown as its own card — name and definition below it. ✨ Bright, High-Contrast Theme: Neon accents on a dark background, built for quick scanning.

⚙ How It Works — Fully Offline: • All reference content ships inside the extension itself. There is no fetch, no network request, and no host permission of any kind. • Search input is validated against a strict allow-list before it's ever used in a comparison — only letters, digits, spaces, and a small set of punctuation that legitimately appears in these terms. • Results are rendered with safe, text-only DOM methods. Nothing is ever inserted as HTML.

📊 What You See: 🗂 Term Cards: Name and full description, one card per entry. 🔍 Search + Count: Live filtering with a running match count above the results. 🎯 Category Tabs: Jump straight to Columns, Service Groups, or CLI Flags.

🖥 Features: 🔎 Instant Search — Filters every category by name or description as you type. 🗂 Category Tabs — Columns, Service Groups, CLI Flags, switchable in one click. 🪶 Zero Overhead — Five small files; nothing runs while the sidebar is closed. 🔒 Fully Client-Side — No network access exists anywhere in the code.

🎯 Perfect For:

• Sysadmins and analysts reading process-viewer output and needing a fast definition.
• Students and newcomers learning what each column and service group actually means.
• Anyone who wants the reference open in a sidebar instead of switching tabs to search online.

🔒 Security-First Architecture: ✅ No Data Collection — Explicitly declared in manifest.json. ✅ No Telemetry — No analytics, no tracking, no network requests of any kind. ✅ No eval() or innerHTML — Every element is built with safe, text-only DOM methods. ✅ Validated Input — Search text is filtered through a strict allow-list before use. ✅ Zero Permissions — The extension requests no permissions at all; it has nothing to ask for. ✅ Flat, Auditable Codebase — Five files total: manifest, sidebar HTML, stylesheet, data, and logic.

🛠 Technical Details: • Compatibility: Firefox 140.0+ Desktop only. • Runtime Execution RAM Footprint: ~16 KB (core scripts: manifest.json + sidebar.html + style.css + script.js + data.js). • Total Extension Download/Install Size: ~40 KB (including README.md). • Entry point: sidebar_action panel (sidebar.html). • Network requests: None. The extension never contacts any domain. • Storage: None. Nothing is written to disk or persisted between sessions. • Permissions requested: None. • Data Collection: None (explicitly declared).

⚠ Limitations: 🖥 Desktop Only — Firefox sidebars are not available on Android. 📚 Static Reference Only — Entries are curated and fixed at install time; it does not read or analyze anything on your system. 🔤 Curated, Not Exhaustive — Covers the columns and service groups most relevant to everyday analysis, not every possible value. 🕵 Not a Diagnostic Tool — It defines terms; it does not evaluate, flag, or interpret your machine's actual processes.

⚠ Legal Disclaimer: Windows Process Reference is an independent, unofficial reference tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft Corporation. All product and feature names referenced are used solely to describe the subject matter of this reference material.