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Rebuilding the Plugin Directory
[caption id="attachment_864" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Early snapshot of the Plugin Directory"][/caption] Most web browsers, including Firefox, offer the ability to install third-party plugins. These plugins enhance your browser by enabling it to handle new kinds of content—i.e. video, audio, even 3-D games and whole application platforms. Unfortunately, plugins can also introduce crashes and security vulnerabilities. And even worse: Since there's no automatic update mechanism across plugins, it's easy to install a one and forget it's even there. Unless you return regularly to a plugin's download page, you may never think ... Read More »
Enter the LizardFeeder
The Mozilla Tree (Be sure to check out the large version.) For the punchline first, go check out what just went live at feeds.mozilla.com. The rest of this entry is the back-story. You see, behind Firefox is Mozilla, and behind Mozilla is a community. And the Mozilla community acts a lot like an ecosystem, which can be visualized as a kind of living tree—not to confused with the mozilla-central tree. Oh yeah, and Mozilla is the name ... Read More »
