‘Read/WriteWeb’ latest blog post is titled “Mozilla Upgrades Firefox Add-ons Site; Interview with Mike Shaver, Mozilla Add-ons Guru”. [Blog]


‘Read/WriteWeb’ latest blog post is titled Mozilla Upgrades Firefox Add-ons Site; Interview with Mike Shaver, Mozilla Add-ons Guru.

An excerpt of the RSS feed is reprinted here.

Mozilla Upgrades Firefox Add-ons Site
Interview with Mike Shaver, Mozilla Add-ons Guru

Later today Mozilla is launching an upgrade to its Add-Ons website (a preview is here, although it doesn’t appear to have all the new features).

Add-ons are extensions to the Firefox browser and Mozilla is aiming to make them more accessible to mainstream users with this upgrade.

Last week I spoke with Mike Shaver, Mozilla’s Director of Ecosystem Development and “add-ons guru”, about the new add-ons upgrade and also Mozilla’s plans for the future in regards to add-ons.

Add-ons Site Upgrade

Mike told me there are 3 main focuses for the upgrade:

1) Localization – they have 8 7 localized communities at launch, with a couple more on the way. The current languages supported are: Chinese, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish. Update: Turkish now won’t be supported in the initial release. Read the complete post…

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