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Has anyone given thought to how hard it would be to port Firefox extensions such as LibX and Zotero to Chrome or Safari? (Am I the only one finding Firefox to be very slow compared to Chrome?) -Raymond On 8/5/10 1:10 PM, Godmar Back wrote: > No, nothing beyond a quick read-through. > > The architecture is similar to Google Chrome's - which is perhaps not > surprising given that both Safari and Chrome are based on WebKit - > which for us at LibX means we should be able to leverage the redesign > we did for LibX 2.0. > > A notable characteristic of this architecture is that content scripts > that interact with a page are in a separate OS process from the "main" > extensions' code, thus they have to communicate with the main > extension via message passing rather than by exploiting direct method > calls as in Firefox. > > - Godmar > > On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Eric Hellman<[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Has anyone played with the new Safari extensions capability? I'm looking at you, Godmar. >> >> >> Eric Hellman >> President, Gluejar, Inc. >> 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 >> Montclair, NJ 07042 >> USA >> >> [log in to unmask] >> http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ >> @gluejar >> >>