Cheevos for Firefox leaderboard
11 January, 2012 § 10 Comments
Cheevos for Firefox is an add-on that I and others have been working on recently. The add-on turns Firefox into a game, giving out awards and achievements for using the browser to its fullest!
Based on the tweets from users of the add-on, here is a current leaderboard (note that no scores are verified):
- @jankom has 270 points
- @swarnendubiswas has 220 points
- @goodguydan has 210 points
- @paulrouget has 180 points
- @raulmalea has 170 points
- @curtisko has 155 points
- @lepereporcher has 135 points
- @weinjared has 130 points
- @henrystivens has 30 points
- @elefra_ has 20 points
- @kpondign has 15 points
- @velvetbites has 5 points
Download Cheevos for Firefox today and let the world know how much of Firefox you use 
Playing with the Firefox Add-on SDK
25 June, 2011 § 2 Comments
Tonight I got my first opportunity to play with the new Add-on SDK for Firefox. I used the Add-on Builder, Mozilla’s browser-based editor, to build the add-on as well as test it.
I’ve been thinking of different ways to improve the viewing experience of HTML5 <video> users. One of the ideas that myself and :dolske were thinking of was to add a full-tab playback of video to the browser. This is sort of a middle-ground between author-determined viewing sizes and full-screen.
Some of the benefits of full-tab playback are: (1) user-customizable sizing of the content, (2) easier for users to move playback from one screen to another, and (3) putting the browser into full-screen mode simulates full-screen playback very closely.
Some of the drawbacks of full-tab playback are: (1) not all of the screen space is used for playback of content, (2) a true full-screen mode will probably switch to use more hardware for the scaling, (3) the controls that are designed for normal playback don’t provide the best user experience at large resolutions.
I spent a couple hours making the add-on, and listed it on addons.mozilla.org (all for free, compared to a one-time $5 fee in the Chrome Web Store).
The add-on is open source and released under the Mozilla Public License. Try it out today and let me know what you think
