TwitterFox add-on for Firefox

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TwitterFox add-on for Firefox

by Brad Linder Mar 13th 2008

There's no shortage of ways to keep up to date with your Twitter contacts without actually visiting Twitter.com. And TwitterFox is... well, it's another one of them. But what sets TwitterFox apart from Firefox add-ons like TwitBin is that TwitterFox doesn't take up space in your browser sidebar. Rather, it hangs out in your system tray and pops up only when your contacts post a new tweets or when you click on the icon to read your latest messages.

In fact, TwitterFox feels a lot more like an Adobe AIR-based application like Twhirl or Snitter than a Firefox add-on. The little T icon in your sidebar will display the number of your unread messages. And when you click the icon a window will pop up showing your latest tweets, sorted by Recent, Replies, and Direct messages. You can send a message by typing in the box, and you can include a link by hitting the link button.

TwitterFox doesn't include some of the more advanced tools you'll find in application like Twhirl, such as snipurl integration or a user lookup feature. But if you don't feel like installing Adobe AIR just to use a Twitter client, TwitterFox might be worth checking out.

[via Geek Bargain Bins and Mixx]

Tags: add-on, firefox, twitbin, twitterfox

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

oiya said 11:45AM on 3-13-2008

Twitter and Firefox have a long relationship. In fact there is something known as fwittering because you can literally put in plugins all over firefox as evidenced by the picture at

http://ltips.blogspot.com/2007/05/how-i-went-from-twittering-to.html

Robert Lowe said 9:42AM on 3-28-2008

Twitbin appears to be spyware--when active, it phones home to www.quantcast.com (the web site of an "Internet Ratings Service") every time you access a page

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