I was recently asked to participate in a Mozilla extension development survey being conducted by professor Amrit Tiwana at the Iowa State University. You can download the preliminary results here. The final results will be released in the fall. If your an extension developer its worth the read. The results are released under the Creative Commons license, so feel free to share.

A few fun findings

  • 59% of developers are unlikely to port to competing commercial browsers, while less than half will consider porting to competing open-source browsers.
  • 85% of extensions in the study were open source
  • Most (66%) extensions have an intermediate degree of modularity with the browser; only one in three have
    high modularity.
  • Major extension upgrades rarely trigger integration and browser stability problems.