Firefox Add-Ons Double as Art, Pranks and Fun
The Internet doesn’t always have to be serious business. Just ask Tobias Leingruber and Jamie Wilkinson, co-founders of Artzilla, an online repository for plug-ins to Mozilla’s Web browser, Firefox. The extensions found on Artzilla won’t help you organize bookmarks or add nifty features. They’re more likely to scramble Web interfaces, inject misspellings or teleport your browser back to the dark ages of the Internet, you know, circa 1996.
Mr. Wilkinson and Mr. Leingruber are members of Free Art and Technology or F.A.T. Lab, a loose-knit group of hackers who tinker with art and technology. “Our mission statement is to pair pop culture with open source,” Mr. Wilkinson said.
The duo created Artzilla at the end of November after noticing that their particular brand of Firefox add-ons weren’t making it into the official directory of Firefox extensions.
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