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Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the best-of-show dept.

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."

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  1. A bit staid? by Ithika · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They're probably really nice and elegant and all that but ... are they not just a wee bitty dull? I mean, two out of the three winners appear to create thumbnails of pages (whether from the history or other open pages). And while Web Developer is a fantastic package it's hardly cutting edge and new. I was hoping for something with real pizzaz. Something where the very idea and description was enough to make me go, "wow".

    Anyone else find it a bit anticlimactic?

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    1. Re:A bit staid? by b4k3d+b34nz · · Score: 3, Funny

      I thought the Separe extension was completely useless. If you really want to visually separate tabs, just open a new window and start fresh. That, or get glasses if you can't scan your tabs.

      I suppose at some point FF extensions have to hit a wall for new and innovative things. Personally, I'm still waiting for the "don't use 300MB of memory" extension.

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    2. Re:A bit staid? by WiFiBro · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Web Developer may be totally useless for end-users, but for web page developers it is amazing, it is really grabbing the html by the balls.

    3. Re:A bit staid? by Blue+Stone · · Score: 3, Funny

      +X/M7En87xo=

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  2. Re:If only... by Spad · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://adblockplus.mozdev.org/

  3. DANGER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do not install all the entrants at once. It would be bad.

    1. Re:DANGER by Ithika · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hmm, (+1, Balls of Steel) or (-1, Unusable)?

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  4. Re:three extensions I cant live with by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can't live without the Abe Vigoda Status extension (FYI -- he's alive as of 8:30am US Eastern Time).

  5. Re:improved updater by tpgp · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?

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  6. Firefox extensions I can't live without by peter8888 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    These are the Firefox extensions I can't live without

    GooglePreview:
    https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php ?id=189

    Venkman Javascript Debugger (for 1.5):
    http://getahead.ltd.uk/ajax/venkman

    Live HTTP Headers:
    http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/

    Peter

  7. Re:If only... by Lispy · · Score: 3, Informative

    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...