Extensions? - Lou Zer

Good point. I make use of three extensions that I find irreplacable (I know, since when I updated to Firefox v1.0, it took a while for me to find the updates, and Firefox felt severely limiting without them).

Once I used it, I have a hard time browsing without AdBlock. It feels so busy without it. In my mind, the developers should be worrying about how to get those ads off the screen, not so much getting them on the screen quicker.

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Tuesday, December 07 2004 @ 10:34 AM PST

Extensions? - jdmyers

See the Camino forums:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=151169&sid=2bbc052b22381daf1edb696e69654574

The first response there basically answers your question:

"Making Firefox extensions work in Camino is impossible (with a very, very few exceptions) because the front end for the two browsers is completely different (Firefox and Mozilla use XUL, where the entire browser is pretty much a web page, wherease Camino uses Cocoa, which is OS X native), and Firefox extensions depend on that.

Making Camino extensible should be theoritically possible, but it would have to be done pretty much for scratch and would be a *lot* of work."

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Tuesday, December 07 2004 @ 01:14 PM PST

Extensions? - Lou Zer

Well, then, that sums up that. Guess the penalty for a pretty OS X interface and supposed faster redraw times is less functionality.

Guess I won't be wasting much more time with Camino then. Off to Firefox (w/AdBlock and other extensions) and Safari (w/PithHelmet).

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Wednesday, December 08 2004 @ 12:49 PM PST