With the launch of FireFox 2.0 today, ReadWriteWeb interviewed Chris Beard from the Mozilla team on the product. One of Firefox’s strong suits has always been extensions, and 2.0 looks to enhance that even more.

Chris said that the add-on space “has really mushroomed in the last year”. They nowhave close to 2000 add-ons for Firefox, from shopping comparison add-ons to bloggingadd-ons and a lot in between. He says there’s “huge amounts of innovation” in the add-onspace – and they’re using it as a kind of test bed, pulling ideas from the add-on spaceinto the core product as they move forward. He says add-ons are easy to build too and aresimilar to creating web apps.

Firefox 2 Launch: Interview With Chris Beard, Mozilla VP Products

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