Overview of Firefox Releases and POW Addon

[Francois Laberge]

hi,

POW is by far the only plugin that I have come across for Firefox,
Chrome, Safari, or IE that seems like a good fit for what I'm looking
for.

I'd like to build on top of it, but I have one concern, maybe David
you can help me with this. I'm trying to build a mainstream consumable
plugin, I want users to have no hassles except to download the plugin
and then it's functionality is available. What worries me come from a
lack of understanding, why do plugins become unsupported by later
releases of Firefox? Is this just that you have to explicitly update
your plugin to say it supports the latest releases, or is that Firefox
changes enough to make plugins stop working?

Thanks in advance,
Francois

[BD]

Both. It depends on how you specify what version of Firefox your add-on works with. And they do
change the format requirements and specifications sometimes. I messed with add-ons in earlier
versions and they quit working and I let them go because I didn't want to mess with learning the new
specs and such. It's a lot of work to learn and know the ins and outs of how all that stuff works
and keep up on it. But your mileage may vary. Good luck. (maybe it won't change much and/or for
awhile now, but I wouldn't count on it)

[Dave]

All extensions have a maximum version. We cannot set it to infinity,
nor a future minor version. We're stuck every few months updating our
extensions. The main intention on the Mozilla side is to keep broken
extensions out of the mix, since new versions of the browser break old
extensions often.

Dave