Bart Decrem, marketing contact for the Mozilla Foundation, told ZDNet UK on Friday that he expects the browser’s market share to reach 10 percent by the end of 2005.
Firefox aims for 10 percent of Web surfers
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Whether extensions are text or not does not matter.
The simple fact is that even text can be made difficult to read, and have you ever tried to debug just a normal web page with some JS/CSS/HTML in it?
Sure it can be reported if someone spots anything, but the point is that they don’t have the resources to check them thoroughly, and once the damage is done, it cannot be undone.
Read it again: They DON’T have the resources. They say so themselves. And what happens when even MORE extensions are created and the number EXPLODES?
The same can be said about any freeware, sure, but mozilla.org is a trusted organization, and people expect it to only send them good stuff. Now it allows random people to upload extensions, and they don’t have the resources to screen them all.
The attitude of calling this paranoia is exactly why Firefox could ultimately fail. Extensions are the ActiveX of Firefox. Remember Microsoft’s problems with ActiveX?
Most freeware isn’t aiming to “take over the world”. Most freeware is only used by a tiny minority.
Firefox is not “normal freeware”.