On Friday I showed this awesome Firefox download counter to some of my colleagues around the MoFo office when Mitchell, our Chief Lizard Wrangler, Mozilla Foundation President, and one of the Time 100, world's most influential people mentioned that it would be really cool if someone built a Firefox statusbar extension that ticked off the downloads like the counter at Infocraft.
If any of you are interested in trying to make this happen, now would be a great time since we're just around the corner from 50 million Firefox downloads, and since we've just relaunched Mozilla Update.
This release gives us a a more secure version of the existing site with a new developer section. The UMO team are now working on version 2 of the site which will be a major rearchitecting, focusing on ease
of use, scalability, security and most importantly maintainability over
time.
UMO got off to a somewhat bumpy start, but we're investing significant resources to build out a platform that will make it easy for extension and theme developers to do what they do best; innovate. There is no doubt that this will be an important component of the ongoing successes of the Mozilla products and we're committed to making it a world-class program. Thanks for all your patience, and stay tuned.
