Help on browser plugins

Hi everybody! I need your help on this. I am creating a
browser plugin. So here it goes: Do you think Flex will be
effective on this side?
Say for instance, i'll create a browser plugin that allows
users to insert images to email. these images are being gathered
from a server then being showed in a Flex generated swf file. User
then searches and selects which image to insert in the email body
from the Flex app. For other matters, i will use javascript and
PHP.
Do you think it is advisable or is it ok that I use Flex for
this? Or I'd rather settle with Flash? but Flash is
programmer-unfriendly :(
As a hobby, I've been doing some RIAs with Flex for 7 months
now but I've also been using Flash for rich media content before.
Please give your comments. Thanks in advance for your reply.
:smile

Thanks sir. The only thing that might make this a problem is
maybe the SWF file size that Flex generates. Even if i try to
minimize the components and embedded images, one is way too big.
Even though i use RSLs, the SWF it generates is still big. or i
just think so.

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