Kevin's Weblog

I use two Firefox extensions: the Bloglines Notifier, and the Bookmarks Synchronizer. They are both cool and very useful and I couldn’t live without them. Now, with the 1.0 release, the Bookmarks Synchronizer became incompatible. However, I did find the new version after a couple days. However, when I installed it, the Bloglines extension stopped working.

Fortunately, when I uninstalled both, then reinstalled them, they both returned to functionality. However, this does seem to indicate a bug, and I’d have to guess that it’s a bug in Firefox. (In fact, even if there is a bug in one of the extensions, the fact that installing one extension can cause another to completely stop working seems to suggest a design bug in the extension framework.) At any rate, I filed a Bugzilla bug, but they are insisting that I should sent it to the extension authors instead. However, it seems that neither one wants to know about bugs since there is nothing on their webpages to let me know their email addresses. (The Bookmarks author invites me to send him email via some forums website which requires registration to do it, but WTF?)

Come on people. If you’re going to release software, please make it easy for people to contact you.