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Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners
Foxy Betty writes "Mozilla Corporation has announced the winners of the Extend Firefox Contest, a project initiated to encourage development of extensions for the Firefox Web browser. A panel of industry notables reviewed more than 200 extensions submitted to the contest."
I was hoping for something with real pizzaz. Something where the very idea and description was enough to make me go, "wow"
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Well one of the nice things about open source is that one idea tends to spawn other ideas, in other words IMHO it tends to be evolutionary rather revolutionary, perhaps this years winners will act as the catalyst(s) that lead to one or more extensions that give you that "wow" feelin'. Remember FireFox is still (relatively speaking) a young "platform" and there have already been quite a few "wow, that's pretty handy (and cool) extensions" released.
I for one am looking forward to seeing what that vibrant dev community comes up with next and I have to admit it's kind of fun, browsing thru and testing out what's already out there in different combinations, "FF Extension Mashing", perhaps the making of a new fad?
Web Developer may be totally useless for end-users, but for web page developers it is amazing, it is really grabbing the html by the balls.
Web developer is a god send for people who do web development for a living. I don't know how people get by without it. Seriously. It has so many useful features that I can't think of a day I've gone without using it. That, along with the Venkman Javascript debugger, have made my life as a web developer 10 times easier. Microsoft et al should have stuff like this for web development environments.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
Exactly; if you want ad agencies to "get your message", try to actually block the ads you find annoying instead of blocking _all_ ads... if flash/dhtml ads get less and less views compared to "normal" banners, they will get the message...
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The problem isn't that the extension is incompatible, but that the extension creator(s) didn't bother to follow the guidelines provided for compatibility version labeling. The security update isn't big enough to compromise the functioning of extensions. The Nightly Tester Tools extension easily does the maxversion bumping that you want until the extension author(s) realize that they had ignored the guidelines.
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