In our Open Source Development course we have been instructed to decide on a single project that I will create at least three differant releases for. Me and my friend XRayon have decided that we are going to work on a new plugin watcher for the firefox browser.
We intend to have this plug-in watcher to keep an eye on the many different plug-ins that the user has. Things like cpu cycles, ram use etc. In order to detect and prevent plug-in crashes. As well, if a plug-in does begin to spin out of control we would like the option to cleanly close out the culprit without affecting the rest of the browser, as well as an option to restart it.
I’m hoping to be able to use the Visual Studio IDE as I have done a lot of work with the .NET platform and this may turn out to be one of the more difficult projects I’ve had to work on.
