Did you bribe them Ryan?

Well, I did ask someone at Mozilla if they could look into it for me. But no goods, services, or money traded hands.

Extensions are not approved based on the order they were nominated to go public. They are approved generally based on an editors interest in an extension. New extensions are particularly hard to get approved (updates are easier). I’m not surprised digg got approved quickly because they are a very popular company. I think you should get on #addons in irc.mozilla.org and ask for someone to approve your extension.

I figured it had to be based upon popularity, but I’m just surprised with as many reviews as our extension has already received that it hasn’t caught the attention of any editors.

I was thinking about getting on the IRC, but I didn’t want to pester anyone. I wasn’t sure if that was frowned upon. Thanks for the tips John!

What’s wrong with a little advertising? I’m guessing that Ryan/Ashley are getting plenty of great feedback on their extension from the readers of Cybernet.

We definitely are, and because of that a lot of bugs have already been squashed.

You can grab a Windows feed here:
[cybernetnews.com]
but that will only include programs and tips that pertain to Windows. It will ignore all news articles that don’t pertain to Windows.

Oh, great, this is really handy. Thanks a bunch.

And I read the windows articles (when they interest me) even though I have Mac. Then again, software/computers is my job.

> We don’t believe that is too much to ask.

Fair enough. Have you considered ads embedded within feeds or is that not an option? It’d let readers like me (an Ad-block user) actually start supporting your site.

Unfortunately Feedburner has stopped their advertising program for now, but Google is supposed to be releasing AdSense for feeds soon. If we are able to display AdSense within our feeds, we’d definitely publish full-feeds for all of our content.

Fair enough. Have you considered ads embedded within feeds or is that not an option? It’d let readers like me (an Ad-block user) actually start supporting your site.