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Mozilla to breed prepubescent add-on developers

zerofool2005

HTML/CSS Browser Interactions 

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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

w00t 

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"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?

T0ny

eighth graders 

"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?

Stephen Lacy

But what about performance? 

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

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Department of Redudancy Department 

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

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Let me be the first to 

Coat

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

BioTube

It's ideas like this 

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