A Firefox observation
28th April 2005
There are (to my knowledge) around 80 people on my undergraduate computer science course. Of those 80, I know of at least fourfive who’s final year project involves writing a Firefox extension of some sort. That’s 1 in 2016.
Meanwhile, the race to fifty million downloads continues. Check out the source code for the counter on that page for some smart use of Ajax.
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