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MozCorp Announces Firefox 1.5 Extension Competition
vain gloria writes "The Mozilla Corporation has launched a competition to Extend Firefox by developing an innovative new extension for the soon-to-be-released latest version of their popular browser. The competition runs until January 6th and the three big prizes are Foxified Alienware PCs. Keen developers may want to grab a copy of the 1.5 Release Candidate and get a head start. Better check your passports first though, as those outside the US, EU and Canada (or in Québec) are ineligible to enter."
Stupid of them to leave out Japan and other parts of Asia ... there's lots of good geeks who could build good extensions there.
This geographic limitation is very weird and runs opposite to the worldwide nature of open source software.
Why aren't Africans or Asians or Australians (or whateverians) allowed to enter ? What's wrong with the other north Americans (Mexicans) ?
Is this a language issue ? Part of the "fight against terror" (sic) or what ?
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Without the 30-40 extentions that I make use of on a daily basis I would have properly have moved to Opera by now, but the extentions make firefox great so I continue to use it :)
As well as the excellent extentions like adblock, tabbed browser prefs and sessionsaver its also the little extentions like GMail Delete Button, Wellrounded and MediaPlayerConnectivity that make Firefox a great browser.
Good idea that their running a competition as I'm sure it'll ensure their are even more great extentions in the future, I just hope developers update then as time goes on.
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More likely legal requirements, or restrictions on shipping technology (the first prize) to other countries.
Remember the furore about banning the sale of PS2s to Iraq because the chips could be used in missile guidance systems?
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