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Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-of-show dept.

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."

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  1. Re:I always wondered.... by starwed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    There's jabberzilla, which (of course) supported the jabber protocol. But it hasn't had any activity in a while.

    I tried my hand at writing one myself, and got it to the point where I could talk to people and add contacts w/o any problems. It didn't do anything else and was super ugly, though. ^_^

  2. Please use quotation marks for headlines like this by Saberwind · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This may sound nitpicky, but the headline would be a lot easier to parse if it read like this:

    Mozilla Announces 'Extend Firefox' Contest Winners

    As it is, I had to read it a few times. I kept stopping at the word "Extend" and wondering how to parse two consecutive verbs (Announces Extend).

    I wish newspapers would get a clue and use quotation marks properly as well, but I digress.

  3. Re:improved updater by aug24 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's not really extension stuff is it? Perhaps you should try suggesting it at the bugzilla for FireFox, rather than here?

    I gotta laugh that some idiot mod rated your comment interesting instead of offtopic though!

    J.

    --
    You're only jealous cos the little penguins are talking to me.
  4. Re:Memory Leak by TehDagda · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Opera is totally a huge memory hog. As bad as Firfox. And it's JavaScript implimentation is buggy, it crashes on me about 3-4 times a week on one of my various computers because it can't handle the horrible JavaScript code many sites have, that causes more crashes than anything else. In my experience (and I'm always using the up-to-date version), it's far less stable than Safari or even IE.

    And it is by far my first choice in a web browser. When it crashes, I just re-start it. ALL the pages I had up come right back up. Tab switching is way better than Firfox or Safari. IE.... well, its IE.

    Cycle in reciently used order. The way it reloads your browsing session after a quit or a crash. The find functionality. An intelligently designed user interface. Browsing shortcuts. Mouse gestures. That's just a couple of reasons why Opera is better. And I don't want to hear it about extensions. You can make Opera do anything Firefox can do, with a user interface that doesn't suck.

    Firefox is excellent. Safari is excellent. Even Camino. But Opera is better. And it runs on every computer I have.