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Microsoft Has 10 Grand For You if You're Willing to Use Internet Explorer

We've written extensively about the declining market share of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, which is being challenged from every angle by open source browsers such as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. Firefox is already the number one browser in Europe, is vastly more extensible than Internet Explorer, and is out in an excellent new Release Candidate version 3.5. ?The European Commission is also pressuring Microsoft on its distribution practices for its browser.

How desperate is Microsoft to woo users to its Internet Explorer version 8 browser? Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker points out in a blog post that Microsoft is now offering $10,000 in prize money buried somewhere on the Internet which you can only find if you use Internet Explorer. Come on Microsoft, Internet Explorer needs a lot more than this marketing campaign to shore up its prospects.



Jetpack FAQ, and the Promising Path Ahead for Firefox Extensions

Recently, we covered Mozilla's Jetpack. It's an API designed to make building extensions for Firefox easier and faster. It doesn't require extensions to be written in XUL, and allows developers to use standard technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Essentially, anyone who can build a web site can build Firefox extensions with it, and it's gotten quite a bit of notice for its potential to greatly increase the already large number of Firefox extension developers. According to an update from Mozilla, there is already very strong interest in Jetpack, and a new Jetpack FAQ.