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Extend Firefox Contest Finalists - February 13, 2006

Mozilla recently held a contest for programmers to create the best extension they could for Firefox 1.5. They wanted to create incentives for developers to create extensions that would be useful to the majority of Firefox users. When the contest was over about 200 Extensions had been submitted to the contest. Only 18 finalists remain. Mozilla will give the Top 3 Winners prizes such as an AlienWare Aurora 7500 PC. Another 8 will receive an Apple iPod Nano and a $250 gift certificate. The 18 chosen Extensions are on Mozilla’s Add-Ons page. They have full descriptions of each item and screen shots of the program in action. The list below consists of the current 18 finalists. (Items on the list were accurate as of 02/13/06, however items may change. Check Mozilla’s page for updates.)

List of Extend Firefox Contest Finalists:

• Adblock - block most ads from webpages
• All-In-One SideBar - manage themes, extensions, and more…
• Deepest Sender - blog from FF to WordPress, Blogger, and more…
• DownThemAll - filter and download files from webpages
• Firefox Showcase - creates a gallery of open FF windows
• Forecastfox Enhanced - display weather forcasts in the toolbar
• Groowe Seach Toolbar - select from multiple popular toolbars
• IE Tab - view a page in IE in a Firefox Tab
• MyStickes - add sticky notes to any page
• PDF Download - asks to open, download, or view in HTML
• Platypus - modify & edit pages to meet your needs
• Reveal - thumbnail views, magnification, and a tab viewer
• Sage - a RSS and Atom reader, which runs from a sidebar
• ScrapBook - highlight, create notes, and save notes
• Separe - create tab separators to organize tabs better
• Viamatic foXose - view thumbnails of all open tabs
• Web Developer - tons of devlopment tools for web masters
• Wizz RSS Reader - another RSS/Atom feed reader

Links: Extend Firefox Finalists | Contest Info
Related: Firefox AddOns | Firefox 1.5.0.1

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