Software

Plugins and Extensions development the key to alternative browser success

Let’s face it folks some of the things that make Mozilla and Firefox sing is the plugins and extension that third party developers have hacked together. One thing I have noticed though is some of the default functions that work in IE don’t always work out of the box. Well some of that may be changing.

Quoting a segment out of a eWeek article: “The Mozilla Foundation, Opera Software ASA and Apple Computer Inc. announced earlier this week that they have developed an extension to a plug-in API that serves as an alternative to IE’s method of using ActiveX for plug-in scripting. ActiveX also has been faulted in recent weeks for opening IE to security attacks.” [eWeek]