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Is Mozilla making a huge mistake by breaking add-ons so badly on Firefox 4? (Download Squad)

Aug 25th 2010 11:26PM First off, I did a post from an add-on developers point of view on this subject:

http://kaply.com/weblog/2010/08/03/wont-someone-think-of-the-add-on-developers/

But to understand why a lot of add-ons are not being updated (yet), you need to understand what Mozilla is doing with Firefox 4. Betas are being released every two weeks, regardless of the state of the code. So if an add-on developer wants to stay current, they have to update their add-on every two weeks (and there have been add-on breaking changes in just about every beta). Most add-on developers do this in their spare time, so they don't have time to keep up with every change.

When the release candidates start probably in October/November, you'll see more add-ons update for Firefox 4.