MozCorp Announces Firefox 1.5 Extension Competition

vain gloria writes "The Mozilla Corporation has launched a competition to Extend Firefox by developing an innovative new extension for the soon-to-be-released latest version of their popular browser. The competition runs until January 6th and the three big prizes are Foxified Alienware PCs. Keen developers may want to grab a copy of the 1.5 Release Candidate and get a head start. Better check your passports first though, as those outside the US, EU and Canada (or in Québec) are ineligible to enter."

what about existing extensions?

[brenddie]

are they elegible?

Experienced vs Novices

[clear_thought_05]

I wonder how the little guys (ex: SVG Switcher for FF1.5 [latenightpc.com]) will compete with the big guys (ex: Web Dev Toolbar [mozilla.org]).

I just hope that the small guys are judged fairly and those with years of experience don't just take over the whole competition. Or maybe that's okay, because in the end (perhaps) it will be the big serious guys against eachother and all the newcomers pretty much don't have a chance.

Just my opinion, I wonder what others might think.

Want to win?

[mr_tommy]

Why not buld a bit torrent client into Firefox? See this bug on Bugzilla [mozilla.org] for a start point; I'm pretty sure you'd have a good chance if you put this together!

End of shelf-life for Flock?

[Anonymous Coward]

After RTFA, I immediately thought that this is some attempt to knock Flock out of the browser landcape before it even gets any traction. I like Flock but I never understood how some could secure the funding for making a customized Firefox.

A plugin idea

[baxissimo]

I'd like to see a plugin that lets me override annoying javascript that prevents resizing windows. It's my window damnit, I should be able to resize it if I want to. Or a plugin which lets me add the standard menu bar to a window that doesn't have it if I want the window to have a freaking menu bar.

Ok, probably not bedazzling enough to win the competition, but it would still be a great plugin to have.

Re:Why Québec? It's your laws...

[denis-The-menace]

It's your laws...I think.
I see many contests advertized that exclude Quebec.

I don't even know if McDonald's Monopoly game is valid in Quebec. If it is, you probably can't use game pieces from quebec for the game outside of quebec and vice-versa.

My guess is that there probably is a law in Quebec that wants to have a chunk of the prize winnings reserved for the public in Quebec. Such a law would skew the contest towards Quebec, hench the exclusion.

IOW: It's not you. It's your laws and politicians that are screwing Quebec'ers from participating in many contests.

BTW: If you think Quebec is "La belle province" now, wait till you separate. Those elitist politicians will finally be able to have their "Cuba of the North" and all you'll be able to say about the good'ol days is: "Je me souviens".

Re:Then why is Quebec excluded?

[Anonymous Coward]

So in contrast, I am impressed that they went to the trouble of making it as international as they feasibly could without bankrupting themselves on legal fees and delaying the contest for another year while it was approved.

Bankruptcy? Not likely http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2005/05/f irefox_foxy_ca.html [typepad.com]

What about SeaMonkey?

[alexo]

Does it support plugins and, if it does, can it use the FireFox/ThunderBird ones?