Mozilla to breed prepubescent add-on developers

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 09:08 GMT

I hope they secure this heavily or it is going to cause some serious problems.

Imagine a html firefox addon. Who knows what damage could be caused.

Anonymous Coward

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 09:08 GMT

"What if any eighth grader with a little skill could change the browser? What would that mean for the web?" Uh, even more crappy, insecure plugins?

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 09:48 GMT

"What if any eighth grader with a little skill could change the browser? What would that mean for the web?"

An add-on that automatically underlines all the rude words in wikipedia?

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 11:13 GMT

That's all very well, but when are they going to work on the perfomance, its still the most bloated browser.

Anonymous Coward

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 13:15 GMT

"hoi" is greek for "the"... so "the hoi polloi" is just a little redundant...

Anonymous Coward

Posted Friday 22nd May 2009 15:15 GMT

welcome our new 8th grader browser pluglin totting hoi polloi overlords.

Posted Monday 25th May 2009 17:10 GMT

That make the browser unusable. Anybody found any use for the MySQL database that makes the browser take a few eons to close?