Early Prototype Of FireFox Coop Released

Nice. I can see this as being of a lot of use personally with the billion social networks I am part of.

I wonder if this might reach a stage where social networks do tweaks to block the plug-in so they don’t take a hit on page views? There must be that chance that it might actually INCREASE traffic if people start using the social network more because of the ease of it through mozilla.

-Zaid

Yeah tough call, although early on I bet it’ll be a game of chicken as to who blocks first. Eventually they have to look at the bottom line, but not before they see how this helps or hurts them.

Many of the social networking sites are expose their features through documented (and publicized) APIs so I’d find it difficult to believe that they were getting ready for some kind of game of chicken over the use of those APIs.

真的很好啊，期待这样的功能。

Hmmm…Interesting. You are using a Mac

Very interesting idea…it’ll be nice/more useful once this gets hooked into more services. I just hope they give us an easy option of enabling/disabling individual services because I honestly won’t give a damn about MySpace (for example).

bye bye Flock!

so… I downloaded and installed. Now what?

Same, I installed it and it isn’t doing anything. Not even an options panel for the Add-On.

go to view>side bar> The Coop

or “Alt + C”

There is a serious bug in Firefox.

When I click on the XP Installer(.xpi) link in your post Firefox warns me of blocking the site (www.techcrunch.com) from installing a plugin. Since this plugin is from mozilla.com and not Techcrunch, this could post a serious problem, cause I may trust mozilla.com but not necessarily techcrunch.com ( Although I do). So when some fishy websites link to an xpi listed in addons.mozilla.org that site would get approved, and that might leave a vulnerability.
http://exhilarator.blogspot.co.....ility.html

After installing the plugin, the conceptual design in the sidebar looks great. Of course…it’s buggy at this point and took quite a while to load.

When the project gets to at least a Beta stage…this bad boy plugin will finally allow users/browsers to take advantage of all the popular API’s and social media services out there without having to go to each individual website (i.e. Digg, Del.icio.us, Newsvine) to use them.

Keep up the coverage Michael!

What would make this really interesting would be a communications component to make actions (message,share) instant and much more transparent, though that would lift them off of the Facebook Platform. Just wishful thinking I guess…

this is going to be huge, no doubt!
Sharing links is already popular on facebook. Creating an easier interface for sharing these links (facebook bar sucks) will only aid and increaase this trend. I am really excited to see where this goes!

I hope they keep this crap out of the core browser and leave it as an extension.

What they SHOULD be working on is fixing bugs, not slapping together half-baked junk like this.

“…has moved forward a step”?????? This coop extension was there when you did your original story.

It looks pretty much like “all peers”, right?

What will internet explorer do now?

http://mind-cafe.blogspot.com/

Looks like a step in the right direction. But I would want to keep a tab on the memory used with this addon. Lets see how it goes

Yeah it would suck to be Flock right now; heh -

- can open source have a monopoly? - if so is it illegal?

- hmmmm - RB

this is good idea.

nice my this software, thank…

I think its a great idea but messy set up at this time.

I pretty much agree with k0re - fix the memory leak that’s been there since what, v0.9 before you start piling more junk on it. If I cared about social networking, I’d be using Flock already. The fact that I’m not, and virtually no one else is either, should tell you something.

Greg

I would disagree with your comment. The fact that nobody is using it right now is because it has not been marketed in the right way. Package it right and it has a greater chance of becoming popular. I do however agree with the memory leak problem and the other multitude of bugs which are still hanging around the software.

Would be nice if they would get this “extension” for MySpace. Cuz I can tell you one thing, I am NOT going to sign up for another social network just to try it out.

why bother? why not let flock has its own arena?

Dbai,
The reason for this is to put the knife to Flock. This is all about a personal grudge between the leadership of Mozilla and founders of Flock. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. Once the money started pouring into Mozilla the knife came out and the back stabbing was in full effect. Greed is a powerful force.

@ greg “The fact that I’m not, and virtually no one else is either, should tell you something.”

Yes, you’re right everything you do/don’t tells me a lot about the world.

Hmm, so over a million downloads is virtually no one? Excellent comment, now, any chance you giving me “virtually no” dollars

First important point: It’s a browser addon, not baked into the thing. Second important point: It’s intended to augment existing systems rather than compete with them. Anyone could have built this addon. The fact that Mozcorp is doing it means it’s likely to be a well built, popular extension, but I really can’t imagine that this is a huge attack on flock.

I agree with seth , anyone can develop addon - why should I as a user use Mozilla addon and not Myspace addon for example?

Wow, at first I though the original COOP had expanded. He’s a talented artist and has a cool blog about art, cars and stuff…

http://positiveapeindex.blogspot.com/

and

http://coopstuff.com/