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add Firefox Plugin 

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|*Project*|*Difficulty*|*Contact*| |*Project*|*Difficulty*|*Contact*|
|[#FirefoxPlugin Firefox Plugin]|Medium|[Brian Warner]mailto:warner-tahoe@lothar.com or any mentor|
|[#Medium-SizedDistributedMutableFilesMDMF Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files]|Medium|[David-Sarah Hopwood]mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org or any mentor| |[#Medium-SizedDistributedMutableFilesMDMF Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files]|Medium|[David-Sarah Hopwood]mailto:david-sarah@jacaranda.org or any mentor|
|[#RedundantArrayofIndependentClouds Redundant Array of Independent Clouds]|Medium|[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]mailto:zooko@zooko.com or any mentor| |[#RedundantArrayofIndependentClouds Redundant Array of Independent Clouds]|Medium|[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]mailto:zooko@zooko.com or any mentor|
|[#ShareMigration Share Migration]|Medium|[Brian Warner]mailto:warner-tahoe@lothar.com or any mentor| |[#ShareMigration Share Migration]|Medium|[Brian Warner]mailto:warner-tahoe@lothar.com or any mentor|
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## Firefox Plugin
Implement a plugin for Firefox using the new [Jetpack SDK](https://jetpack.mozillalabs.com/). This plugin will extend Firefox so that it knows about Tahoe-LAFS caps. It will provide user-friendly and safe gestures to share caps, for example, it will require a different gesture to share a write-cap than to share a read-cap, to prevent people from accidentally sharing a write-cap to a file or directory when they meant to share a read-cap, thus solving one of the major outstanding problems in Tahoe-LAFS user interface (see [this tahoe-dev mailing list discussion](http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-March/004139.html)).
It will also provide a fast, pretty, and highly usable browser for exploring and manipulating a Tahoe-LAFS filesystem.
It will also provide a re-usable Jetpack component which makes it easy for other plugin developers to add Tahoe-LAFS features to their Firefox plugin.
It may also provide more features for Firefox users or developers, which features may be discovered during the course of the summer.
## Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files (MDMF) ## Medium-Sized Distributed Mutable Files (MDMF)
Mutable files in Tahoe-LAFS have some significant limitations and Mutable files in Tahoe-LAFS have some significant limitations and