Mozilla labs announced winners of the official Mozilla Extend Firefox 3 contest. There are some good extensions for you to check out. Extend Firefox 3 is a contest for developers who can build extensions making use of Firefox 3 features. Along with the new extensions prizes are awarded for updated extensions for Firefox 3.
List of Winners
Best New Add-on (3 winners)
Pencil (Install)
Pencil Project is a rapid sketching and GUI Prototyping utility with native Windows and Linux GTK widgets. (our coverage)
Tagmarks (Install)
This add-ons adds a set of icons to the quick bookmarks, allowing you to quickly add tags to your bookmarks by clicking on each icon.
HandyTag (Install)
HandyTag simply providing a complete set of most relevant keywords in the bookmark’s edition panel. These keywords are retrieved from many different sources.
Runners up (6)
- Webchunks: Firefox implementation of the Internet Explorer Webslices feature, plus more!
- Badges on Favicons: Add informational badges to the tab favicons
- Devo: A command launcher for Firefox
- Close ‘N Forget: close the current tab and forget about the visit
- Callout: Makes the notification services of the Operating System available for web pages and Greasemonkey scripts
- Reasy: An RSVP reader
Best Updated Add-on (3 winners)
Read it Later (Install)
Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.
TagSifter (install)
Firefox 3 lets you tag your bookmarks, but it doesn’t give you a great way to browse your bookmarks by their tags. TagSifter tries to. Select a group of tags in the sidebar or menu, and TagSifter shows you all the related tags and bookmarks.
Bookmark Previews (Install)
Bookmark Previews adds an album view and thumbnail view to the bookmarks manager.
Best Music Add-On (1 winner)
Fire.fm (Install)
Fire.fm is your direct access to the extensive music library on Last.fm. Listen to music related to your favorite artist, and discover new artists and music in the process.
Congratulations to all the winners. I need to see some of the extensions from the list, i used a few, they look awesome.
Madhur Kapoor says
Since i am new to Firefox, i haven’t tried any of them.