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Firefox extensions: A strategy born of compromise
Mozilla looks uber-smart for coming up with an easy way for developers to extend its open-source Firefox browser, but this wasn't its original intent, as this interview with Asa Dotzler suggests.
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Firefox has surpassed 22 percent global market share, its popularity driven in large part by the thousands of extensions and add-ons that personalize the Firefox experience for diverse users.
Intriguingly, however, Firefox's extensions strategy didn't start out as a strategy at all. It was a compromise to keep the project's developer base together, as Mozilla's Asa Dotzler explains in this interview I conducted with colleague John Newton earlier this week.
The History of Firefox Extensions - An Interview with Asa Dotzler from Matt Asay on Vimeo.
