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The Coop, Social Networking For Mozilla

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-your-friends-are-watching dept.

smileham noted a story about Mozilla developers considering work on a "social networking" Firefox extension called the "Coop" to take up where Flock left off. Also here is a wiki on the subject.

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  1. I love the internet by MosesJones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Geeks get to pretend we have a Social network, without all the hassle of actually physically meeting people

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  2. NAFSN by IgLou · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's a new acronym I'm starting: Not Another Freaking Social Network!

    Really, I'd like to see existing social networks evolve and allow more interop before I want to see another new one come up. That's just me though.

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  3. Beginning of the end... by daveisfera · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Firefox is starting to lose what made it great (small, streamlined design that anyone could add to with extensions) and becoming far more bloated than the original IE that it so gratefully replaced. I'm fine with them adding these features, but they should be extensions, not part of the browser itself. Sure, they could make "standard extensions" that come with the default installation of Firefox, but you should be able to remove them and keep the small, streamlined Firefox that we all love so much in the beginning.

    1. Re:Beginning of the end... by smooc · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I am getting a little tired of the argument: Ohhh they are only adding bloat! It is not streamlined any more. Bladadiebladiebla.

      Firstly they are talking about implementing it as an extension. So no bloat added, it even gives you a choice!

      Secondly if no experimenting is taking place, no new things will be developed. Experimenting is a necessity to survive. Just following standards will not set new improved standards, there is a reason why there are alpha versions of software: because it has experimental new features and they would like to see if they catch on.

      I applaud this move of the Moz team for that matter. Finally an opensource project that looks beyond its own nose.

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