How to get Windows username in a legacy (not WebExtensions) Firefox add-on?

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This does the trick on Windows:

function getUser() {
   return Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/environment;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIEnvironment).get('USERNAME');
}

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