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Mozilla To Ditch Firefox Extensions?

Posted by Soulskill on from the greasemonkeying-around-with-a-good-thing dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Although some have raised concerns about how sane switching to Jetpack is, it seems that Mozilla's new gadget is bound to replace the powerful extension mechanism we know. Maybe Mozilla wants to replace all the great add-ons we use daily with gadgets that add an entry to the Tools menu, or maybe they just want to draw thousands of inexperienced developers into putting together a bunch of HTML and CSS that won't integrate in the UI. It seems to me that in light of recent decisions we've discussed before, Mozilla isn't going in the right direction. What do you think ?"

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  1. Re:Car Analogy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    So it'll be an APC now? ...yeah thaaat'll work.

  2. Same as microsoft, gnome, etc dumb it down by mrmeval · · Score: 4, Funny

    OMG programming is HARD! We need to reduce features and make it simpler so any moron can do it!!!

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  3. Here's an idea... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...or maybe they just want to draw thousands of inexperienced developers into putting together a bunch of HTML and CSS that won't integrate in the UI...

    Just change the scripting engine to PHP... IT'S A JOKE...

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  4. Re:Toughts About Direction by heptapod · · Score: 2, Funny

    You're welcome! I didn't want you to interrupt your cp browsing.

  5. Re:TOO MANY LINKS man! by ColdWetDog · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF? What about all those extensions that change Firefox UI, like Vimperator? Or those that use XPCOM to write files and launch apps? How can you do that in HTML and pure JS?

    Look, it's a web browser. If you want an operating system, go download Emacs.

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  6. Re:Is referencing dumb or smart? Is it really code by plover · · Score: 2, Funny

    How many dependencies on servers having uptime, and being secure? Imagine a world of plug-ins that rerference each other so heavily that a cat on a certain keyboard could crash everyones extensions.

    "Dr. Schroedinger, the veterinarian is on line one. He said something about your cat, but then my computer locked up."

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  7. Re:Let them do something about the memory leaks by Jesus_666 · · Score: 3, Funny

    If your computer becomes usuable because Firefox consumed megabytes of memory you might want to switch to lynx.

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  8. Re:TOO MANY LINKS man! by RobertM1968 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Seriously. Provide a link to the main stori(es) and that's about it. All this extra stuff is simply extraneous. How can we RTFA if we don't know which is the real frikken article?

    That is the most stupid thing I have ever heard!!! This is Slashdot!!!! You arent supposed to read the article!!!! Thus, it shouldnt matter how many links there are!!

    Get with the program! You've been here long enough to know this!

    ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)

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  9. Probably! by Vector7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Mozilla's UI team has a ten year history of cluelessly grandiose blunders - so if it seems like they're doing the wrong thing, they probably are.

  10. Re:TOO MANY LINKS man! by selven · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just find it amusing that we're trying to stuff more and more things into the browser. There has got to be a recursion joke in there somewhere.

    Firefox is a great operating system, it just needs a decent web browser.

  11. Re:TOO MANY LINKS man! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Sorry but without an easy to use UI it's fairly worthless for the majority of users including us wannabe geeks who don't know whether to shit or go blind without a GUI.

    FTFY.