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Created by Jenifer Holcombe Soykan (Syracuse University) on March 06, 2006

“Extensions are small add-ons that add new functionality to Firefox. They can add anything from a toolbar button to a completely new feature. They allow the application to be customized to fit the personal needs of each user if they need additional features, while keeping Firefox small to download.” I’m playing with many of these extensions and honestly feel overwhelmed - do I really want to change the appearance of Firefox? Do I need a “purple bunny” to help me read and write comments about a web page? Adblock makes sense, but what about managing user scripts with “Greasemonkey?” I don’t even know what a user script is! I’m looking for a “fresh outlook” so I hope StumpleUpon will help me out! Mostly I want to understand how that little yellow floating planel at the left hand top of any web page with an RSS feed works. I experimented with a bunch of RSS feeds and I like this the best, but can’t even figure out from where I acquired it. Yeeks.

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Jenifer, You might be

Submitted by catherine on Fri, 2006/03/10 - 6:37am.

Jenifer,You might be interested in checking out the winners of the recent "Extend Firefox Contest":http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfirefox/The three grand prize winners are Reveal (shows thumbnails of pages in your session history), Web Developer (adds a toolbar to Firefox that does a bunch of things, including disabling page referrals), and Firefox Showcase (shows you all the open pages in Firefox and lets you pick one).

I beg to disagree - William

Submitted by jeholcom on Tue, 2006/03/07 - 9:04am.

I beg to disagree - William J. Allen wrote in his blog "What's his name...the guy in the lab" that "We embody the best practices of preschoolers. That is why we succeed. We like to explore and give no thought to breaking things." I beg to disagree with your comment about extensions. I am "the local tech" and perhaps am downplaying my skills and knowledge for an attempt at humor in my blog - but I do think that trying something out and seeing what it does is the way I best learn. Also, I think the options are overwhelming. Check out the "superbrowser": http://splasho.com/blog/2006/02/26/the-superbrowser

Extensions to firefox and

Submitted by StuartYeates on Tue, 2006/03/07 - 7:51am.

Extensions to firefox and thunderbird should really only be installed if you actually understand what they do (or if your local technial help recommends it). The only extension I use is the enigmail plugin for thunderbird, which allows it to do GPG email.