Updated Platform Selection

• Browser

• Changes to Firefox's extension development process have made it possible to port chrome extensions directly to Firefox.
• Therefore, we will focus our efforts entirely on the crome extension source code.

• Database

• Conclusion

• We will use mongo db as the databse on our server

• Options

• Relational Databases

• (-) Does not provide the scalability and speed required

• Nonrelational Database

• CouchDB

• (+) JSON-like structure
• (-) slower at scale than mongo

• Mongo

• (+) JSON-like structure
• (+) javascript as query language
• (+) http for api
• (+) Endorsed by Winston

Original Platform Selection

• roll your own web browser
• browser extension
• 50.15% chrome
• 13.75% internet explorer
• 11.56% firefox
• 13.80% safari
• 03.79% opera
• 06.95% others

If we target chrome we should hit a major market share and stay with winston's existing code base. We do not want to support intenet explorer, and no one volunteered to develop for safari.