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QuikboyJan 4th 2008 7:27PM
Is there a quik way of making Firefox extensions work as IE7 extensions?
I don't do Firefox, and this sounds neat enough for use on my browser.
So is there a way of changing the code or whatever to make it work on IE7?
(Unverified)Jan 4th 2008 8:06PM
It seems as though Interclue is thinking about porting to other browsers (IE, Opera and Safari), see: http://interclue.com/other-browsers.html
QuikboyJan 4th 2008 9:06PM
@Kristin: Thanks. I'll check out the link.
I hate how all these Firefox-only extensions just seem so cool. I don't think it's that hard to support other browsers.
(Unverified)Jan 4th 2008 11:20PM
@Michael, Firefox actually does make it a heck of a lot easier to build add-ons in some respects. We've been trying to get an IE7 and/or IE6 version going for quite some time now, but there are some highly problematic bits. On the other hand Safari doesn't officially support addons at *all* - the ones that do exist for it are basically clever hacks, and well, Opera is the poor cousin due to the realities of market share and limited programmer time. However, we do intend to support all of them to some extent in the fullness of time. You might want to give Firefox 3 a shot when it comes out of beta tho, it's going to be great (by which I mainly mean *faster* and less memory hungry). I'm told Interclue runs pretty well on Flock, but IE7 is a completely different architecture so you'll never get a Firefox extension to run on IE7 without significant re-working by the programmers.
Cheers,
Seth.
QuikboyJan 5th 2008 12:19AM
Thanks Seth.
Glad to hear how browsers really 'work' from a programmer's point of view.
And yeah, never liked Firefox because of the memory-eating and it is kinda slow to me.
Looking forward to see what both Firefox 3 AND IE8 will be like. Not like I'm expecting it, but I heard that IE8 suppose to be something 'revolutionary' since MS is all mum about it. But that's a rumor and speculation.
I'll be glad to try both and see which one's better overall.
Thanks for the info.