Stealing the tweaks

I read this morning on Scoble’s blog that there’s a .NET application that adds “30 tweaks” to Firefox.

I looked at this application and in the screenshots I noticed that the tweaks being advertised were very familiar. Things like “Windows XP styled menus” and “Use error pages instead of dialog boxes”. Then it all fell into place. These aren’t new tweaks at all. What they’ve done is taken all of the tips on this page (below the original Firefox home page) and added a button that adds the text into the appropriate configuration files. I would think that most people would not be bothered to configure Firefox in the old way – finding the files on your drive and editing them by hand but when you have a cool extension like this why wouldn’t you just use that? Plus this extension doesn’t require the .NET framework which some people might not want to install.

I guess I shouldn’t begrudge people for developing an application like this. Maybe it was a way to learn new programming techniques. From this user’s perspective though, it seems kind of useless.

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