Firefox Site Gets a Relaunch
On Monday, The Mozilla Corporation, which oversees the development of all things Firefox, is relaunching the Firefox add-ons community site. With the redesign, the organization hopes to enhance the ability of add-on developers to collaborate and test each other's creations.
We recently sat down with Mozilla technology strategist Mike Shaver, who explained the reasoning behind the site's overhaul. He hopes the enhancements will not only help developers shepherd their add-ons from prototype to finished product, but also make it easier for new users to discover new extensions, thereby adding personal value to the impersonal web.
Wired News: So, why a site relaunch now?
Mike Shaver: The add-ons site has organically grown since 2000, when it was set up for a couple dozen add-ons. When we released Firefox 2, we had 2,500 or so. There were some issues of scale that we needed to address, some of which had to do with software and performance, but most of which had to do with navigation and helping users find the add-ons they really want.
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