четверг, 30 октября 2008 г.

New Approach For Flock Extensions

Original: New Approach For Flock Extensions

Hey Flockstars,

I want to clarify Flock's intentions and the new direction of the Flock extensions page, extensions.flock.com  (EFC).

We haven't stopped hosting extensions, we've just simplified the back-end submission process, and content that we host.  One of the great bonuses of this is our new ability to host Flock themes.

Flock still embraces extensions and themes, but we will leverage Mozilla's secure back-end hosting environment by encouraging you to get extensions from addons.mozilla.org.  We'll be dedicating our resources to responding to your needs and adding new and exciting capabilities onto the Flock browser. 

The broad majority of Firefox extensions have always worked in Flock. Most Flockstars are aware of this and do not visit EFC for their extension needs.  With the shift in focus to content that is Flock-specific, EFC now serves the niche that addons.mozilla.org does not: we provide extensions that enhance the many specific features that are unique to Flock.

Almost all of the developers that have their extensions removed from EFC had their extensions hosted on addons.mozilla.org already.  We continue to support development of extensions for Flock and Firefox, and the developers who have interacted with EFC in the past continue to talk with us about the future of extensions for Flock.  New developers are encouraged to check out our documentation and join us on IRC.
 
I hope this clarifies our position.  You can still have all the feature benefits of Flock and take advantage of available Firefox extensions.

Community feedback is of the utmost importance to us and will always guide the development of Flock, our website, our extensions and our company.  As always, I welcome your comments and emails.

Flock'n'roll,

Evan Hamilton
Community Ambassador
evan at flock dot com

Blogged with the Flock Browser


Tags: Flock, extensions, extensions.flock.com, developers, EFC, themes

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