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MozCorp Announces Firefox 1.5 Extension Competition

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the embrace-and-extend dept.

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."

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  1. if that is necessary... by TheWart · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Better check your passports first though, as those outside the US, EU and Canada (or in Québec) are ineligible to enter."


    On second thought, if that is necessary for you to remember where you live, then maybe you shouldn't be entering the contest.

  2. Japan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stupid of them to leave out Japan and other parts of Asia ... there's lots of good geeks who could build good extensions there.

  3. Experienced vs Novices by clear_thought_05 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I wonder how the little guys (ex: SVG Switcher for FF1.5) will compete with the big guys (ex: Web Dev Toolbar).

    I just hope that the small guys are judged fairly and those with years of experience don't just take over the whole competition. Or maybe that's okay, because in the end (perhaps) it will be the big serious guys against eachother and all the newcomers pretty much don't have a chance.

    Just my opinion, I wonder what others might think.

  4. Want to win? by mr_tommy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not buld a bit torrent client into Firefox? See this bug on Bugzilla for a start point; I'm pretty sure you'd have a good chance if you put this together!

  5. Réfléchir avant de parler! (About Quebec by nierdal · · Score: 5, Informative

    The reason why Quebec is excluded is because here in Quebec the lottery is regulated by the RACJ, a goverment agency. The lottery have is own laws, and therefore if the Mozilla Fundation do not accept to fill the papers that loto Quebec ask for they cannot participate.

    See : http://www.racj.gouv.qc.ca/section.asp?lang=en&noS ection=4&noGrappe=5

    Also, I would be great if the slashdot community would stop bashing Quebec about the "language police". THERE IS NOT LANGUAGE POLICE IN QUEBEC, this is bullshit!. There are only laws that make in sort that everything must be written in french on commercial products, and that the french must occupate the same space than the english. That's all! So if a consummer see a poorly written french on a products or an ad, it can make a complaint to the Quebec french language office that will HELP the seller to translate is products to french. You heard it right! They will HELP without any fees!

    Why this? Hey we are 6 millions french (and 1 million english) in Quebec. There's 330 millions english speaker around US! How you would expect US to keep our language without laws? If you were 6 millions english speaker with 330 millions spanish what would you do if you were actualy enjoying your cultural heritage? You would not stand up to protect your liberty of speaking whatever language you want?

    That's why the law is there.

    See Wikipedia if you want to lean a bit more about Quebec. Very good description IMHO. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec

    (Oh and sorry I know my english isn't that good..)