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Contest Details

Will you be the brain behind the next great Web innovation? Do you have the drive to take your Firefox Add-on idea to the masses? Are you ready to affect everyday life for millions of people around the world?

Extend Firefox is a developer contest to encourage development and innovation in Web experience through add-ons to Firefox 2.

Contest Overview

This edition of the Extend Firefox contest runs until December 31st, 2007. A panel of judges will award three Grand Prizes and twelve Runner-up Prizes based upon excellence in user experience, innovativeness, and use of open standards.

Prizes

Three Grand Prize winners will each receive an Ultimate Firefox Developer Kit, including:

Travel and accommodation to a Mozilla Developer Day of the winner's choice, anywhere in the world
Development gear, including a brand new 15" Macbook Pro with VMware Fusion and ActiveState Komodo
1 Year Unlimited Access subscription to O'Reilly's Safari Library
Firefox Ogio Messenger Bag stuffed with t-shirts, books, stickers, mugs, and more

Twelve Runner-Up Prize winners will each receive a Firefox Pack, including:

Firefox Ogio Messenger Bag stuffed with t-shirts, books, stickers, and more
ActiveState Komodo, mug, and t-shirt
A $200 Gift Certificate for O'Reilly Books

All qualified entrants will receive, while supplies last, a Limited Edition Extend Firefox T-Shirt.

Judges

Our panel of judges features thought leaders and luminaries from across the tech landscape.

Jesse James Garrett - President, Adaptive Path
Joshua Schachter - Founder of del.icio.us; Director of Engineering, Yahoo!
Tariq Krim - Founder and CEO of Netvibes
Garrett Camp - Founder & Chief Product Officer of StumbleUpon
Brendan Eich - CTO of Mozilla and creator of JavaScript

Judging and Selection of Winner

All entries will be judged based upon the following criteria:

User Experience
- degree to which entry adds to the overall experience and satisfaction of using Firefox
- elegance of design
- ease of use
Creativity
- innovativeness
Platform Leverage
- use of platform capabilities in Firefox 2 (e.g. AJAX, XUL, DOM Storage, SVG, Canvas, etc.)
Technical Correctness
- memory footprint and performance (e.g. no memory leaks or obvious regressions)
- building, bundling, and installation of entry (e.g. use of the extensions API)
- localization support
Open Source and Use of Standards
- licensing of the underlying source code under an open source licence
- readability, usefulness, and quality of documentation and code
- use and support of appropriate open standards (e.g. XML, HTML, XHTML, CSS, etc.)

Important Dates

This edition of the Extend Firefox contest will run until 11:59pm pacific time on December 31st, 2007. Winners will be announced on or about January 31st, 2008.

Official Rules

The complete set of eligibility requirements and conditions of participation can be found in the Official Rules.

Frequently Asked Questions

Please consult the FAQ.

This contest is void where, or to the extent, prohibited. No purchase necessary to enter or win.

Mozilla Labs