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Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners
Foxy Betty writes "Mozilla Corporation has announced the winners of the Extend Firefox Contest, a project initiated to encourage development of extensions for the Firefox Web browser. A panel of industry notables reviewed more than 200 extensions submitted to the contest."
http://adblockplus.mozdev.org/
I actually find NoScript better than Adblock since most ads are generated using javascript I don't have to think about blocking the ads on a new page since they are already blocked (javascript not executed).
Still one needs Adblock for hard-coded ads, but with NoScript a lot of adblocking is prevented (and the browser becomes more secure).
The single most usefull extension for Firefox I have found so far.
If you do research on the web, you'll ask yourself how you were able to live without out, after you gave it a try.
P.S.: I know this sound like marketing babble, but I'm in no way affiliated with the scrapbook guys, I'm just a fanboy who really loves their work.
Seeing as the linked page is useless to those of us running non-Firefox 1.5 browsers (Mozilla 1.7.12 here), I looked up the details of what the winners actually are, and thought I'd share ...
Grand Prize Category Winners:
Best New Extension Overall: Reveal by Michael Wu See everything. Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want. Reveal also includes a magnifying glass to help you see everything. Best Upgraded Extension: Web Developer by Chris Pederick Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. Best Use of New Firefox 1.5 Features: Firefox Showcase by Josep del Rio Showcase is an extension thought to easily locate and select any open browser window in Firefox.Our three grand prize winners will receive a Alienware Aurora 7500 Firefox Edition PC and a Firefox 1.5 Prize Pack including: T-shirt, cap, and laptop bag.
Best in Class Category Winners:
Most Innovative: New: Viamatic foXpose by Vivek Jishtu Click on the icon in the status bar to view all the browser windows with a single click. Upgraded: Sage by Peter Andrews Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't. * Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds * Feed Discovery * Integrates with Firefox's bookmarks Most Useful: New: Separe by Massimo Mangoni Helps you keeping tabs tidy by introducing a new kind of tab! Upgraded: Scrapbook by Taiga Gomibuchi ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are: Save Web page; Save snippet of Web page; Save Web site; Org Best User Experience: New: Reveal by Michael Wu See everything. Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want. Reveal also includes a magnifying glass to help you see everything. Upgraded: All-in-One Sidebar by Ingo Wennemaring All-in-One Sidebar is a sidebar control, inspired by Opera's. It lets you quickly switch between sidebars, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source code or websites in the sidebar. It includes a slide Best Integration with a Web Service: New: My Stickies by Jacob Wright Mystickies allows you to place sticky notes all over the web and organize them with tags. You can view, sort and edit your notes with our free web based tool at www.mystickies.com Upgraded: Forecast Fox by Aaron Sarna Get international weather forecasts from AccuWeather.com, and display it in any toolbar or statusbar with this highly customizable and unobtrusive extension.Prizes for Best in Class (8 awarded): Apple iPod Nano, $250 Gift Certificate for O'Reilly books, and a Firefox 1.5 Prize Pack - T-shirt, cap, and laptop bag.
Second? I see they made a division between 'new' and 'upgraded'.Sage is 'upgraded'.
How about upgrading the windows version without leaving the old version number in the add/remove programs? I have to update 40 or 50 machines at a time and it's a pain uninstalling before installing.
This blog suggests that the issue your complaining about was fixed around a year ago.
Or perhaps I misunderstood your problem?
My pics.
Glad to see Web Developer at the top of the list... it is, IMO, by far the most useful Firefox plugin out there. I've been using it at work for a few months, and even got a few co-workers to install Firefox specifically because they wanted to use this plugin...
Just one datapoint, but it reinforces in my mind how important plugins (they're plugins, dammit! why are they pushing the term "extension"!) are to Firefox's success. Which, I guess, was the whole point of this contest.
ClutterMe.com - easiest site creation on the Net. Just click and type.
...just add an extension! The Nightly Tester Tool does exactly what you ask.
One is a ripoff of OS X Expose. The other is a copy of an IE 7.0 feature.
Reveal is composed by 3 different features, and one of them is tab previewing, but you have search bar where you can "filter" thumbnails by their characteristics, and also show thumbnails of the history of that tab. Really, not similar to Expose or IE 7.
Showcase (which is the extension I developed) is not a copy of IE 7. The idea behind it was to be able to see tabs from windows other than the current one, so you can access them in a fast way. From OS X Expose I took the idea to fit all thumbnails in a single window (without scrolling), and from IE 7 Quick Tabs I took the idea to put a close button to each thumbnail, since it was requested by some users. I finished the first version of this extension quite long before I learnt about Quick Tabs.
Calling this "stealing" is really harsh language. Microsoft Windows copied lots of stuff from Mac OS, Mac OS copied a lot of stuff from Xerox Star... So you see, open source is not really different to closed source in that sense.
Speed Dial for Firefox
Hey, you probably know that, but there is a well maintained, autoupdated set of rules for almost all Ads out there. :)
It's called Filterset G.
This in addition to Adblock plus keeps all ads out of sight without having to configure a single thing. No worries.
I highly recommend it to anyone and it's part of my default install for friends...
It's not a fox or a racoon. It's a Firefox, which is a real animal, which looks similar to the plush.
I got a chuckle the other day (Feb. 24th) when his status read "Happy Birthday!"
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