Stupid ebay/amazon question

Bill McGonigle bill at bfccomputing.com
Fri Jul 7 13:17:00 EDT 2006


On Jul 6, 2006, at 15:13, Ben Scott wrote:

>> Rue the day that Firefox lets you run a new Extension without
>> restarting the browser...
>
>  Why?

Having to restart the browser sets up a decent barrier to requiring 
extensions for viewing a website.  Active-X controls can be installed 
on-the-fly and are less of an inconvenience to the user in that regard.

I think AJAX has taken some of the bad uses for Active-X out of the 
equation though.

-Bill
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