[Greasemonkey] barriers to entry

[Aaron Boodman]

Yeah, I wish user scripting support was built into moz too.

On 5/11/05, Mihai Parparita <mihai.parparita at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've noticed similar stats for my user scripts. My pet theory has been
> that that installing extensions a Firefox requires a restart makes
> things not too appealing.
> 
> Miahi
> 
> On 5/11/05, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk at brevity.org> wrote:
> > There are 10,000+ inbound links to the page about my Flickr-modifying GM
> > script. And it's only been downloaded 2700 times.
> >
> > I don't know what to make of this.
> >
> > a) my instructions suck? I'm not sure. The page could be friendlier.
> >
> > b) it got picked up on some 'sideblog' syndication feeds, which just
> > appear on pages automatically.
> >
> > c) there are a large audience of people who find such scripts
> > interesting, but not interesting enough to actually take the trouble to
> > install GM and then download another script.
> >
> > Maybe user scripting should just be baked into Mozilla (as it is in Opera).
> >
> > --
> > Neil Kandalgaonkar
> > neilk at brevity.org | http://brevity.org/
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