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Backpack add-ons for Firefox

We're big fans of Backpack, the online PIM organizer with a pioneering KISS philosophy from the wildly successful 37signals. At times, however, Backpack can appear too simple, making it seem like the only way to interact with the service is through ...

Firefox add-on page gets overhauled

Lots of big changes going on in the add-on area of the Mozilla website. A Mozilla add-on can be any of the following: Extension, theme, dictionaries in different languages (for FF 2.0's spell checker functionality), search engine or a plugin. The ...

Mozilla's Weave browser sync add-on for Firefox hits beta

I've been using Mozilla Weave to keep my Firefox profiles synched across different machines and platforms for quite some time. Today, Mozilla Labs has announced that the add-on is finally ready for official beta testing. Version 1.0b1 is out now ...

Tabberwocky is a slick tab management add-on for Firefox

Tired of accidentally closing important tabs in Firefox? Tabberwocky, a useful tab-manager add-on, lets you protect a tab, open a duplicate tab next to the original, and lots more. Tabberwocky can move the 'close tab' button to either side of a tab, ...

Add URL tooltips to Firefox with a handy add-on

I'm not a big fan of status bars in browsers. Most of the time, they're just wasting 20 or so pixels of vertical display space. That doesn't mean I want to miss out on the functions the status bar provides - like displaying the destination of ...

Context Search: Firefox add-on update

Yesterday I did the daily Firefox add-on about SearchWith, a great little extension that requires you, the user, to go to a site, do a search and try and figure out how to put the url into the options to make it work. Sounds confusing, doesn't it? I ...

Greasemonkey to Firefox add-on converter: why bother?

Firefox users love their extensions, and Greasemonkey is one of the coolest. The ability to run Userscripts that change the appearance of virtually any webpage is some powerful stuff. But what if you want to install all those userscripts as ...

Brief RSS add-on makes Firefox's Live Bookmarks usable

Live Bookmarks in Firefox are a great idea in theory, but in practice they're a clumsy solution for in-browser feed reading. Brief is an add-on that breathes some life into Live Bookmarks with a nice-looking, usable front end. Setting up Brief is a ...

Orb offers open Add-Ons API

The folks over at Orb wrote to let us know that they're offering an open Add-ons API which will allow developers to extend Orb's media streaming capabilities to a wide range of applications. Via the API, you can code your own Add-on to stream content ...

Mozilla launches Jetpack Gallery, restart-free pseudo add-ons now available

Jetpack is certainly an interesting project, and the fact that it brings no-restart add-on-like functionality to Firefox is awesome. Today, Mozilla announced the launch of the Jetpack Gallery. It is to jetpacks what the Firefox add-ons site is to ...

What are your favorite Firefox add-ons?

What is your favorite, most cherished Firefox add-on? Some of mine are Gmail Manager, Colorzilla, IEtab, Download StatusBar, Viamatic Foxpose, Performancing, Tab Mix Plus, GooglePreview, Googlepedia, AdBlock, FlashBlock, Gmail Skins, and DownThemAll. ...

uTorrent add-on for Firefox

Ah, the marriage of two of my favorite programs, uTorrent and Firefox. Over at TorrentFreak they've got an add-on for Firefox that integrates the two, putting uTorrent's WebUI (which you must download separately) in Firefox's sidebar and reporting ...

Public Fox: Firefox Add-On of the Day

A new feature here at Download Squad, I will be highlighting Firefox add-ons on a somewhat daily basis. Add-ons, of course, can be any extension, theme or plugin available on any of the Mozilla products. I will be starting this daily excursion off ...

Linkification: Firefox add-on of the day

Linkification converts text URLS written on a page into clickable links. But there is much much more packed into this tiny Firefox add-on. This is a great add-on and to help reduce your frustration on forums and comment threads alike. Thanks goes to ...

Update Notifier - Firefox Add-on of the Day

I don't know about you, but I have quite a few Firefox extensions. Every once in a while I would have to go into the add-on menu and hit that update button and then restart Firefox if there were any new updates. This "every once in a while" was not a ...

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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