If you're the sort of person who always has a map service open in a browser tab so you can look up locations, directions, and the nearest pizza place to order lunch, have we got a Firefox add-on for you.
Mini Map Sidebar opens up Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, or Windows Live Local in your Firefox Sidebar. That's not particularly impressive in its own right. But the extension includes some useful features like the ability to drag and drop addresses from your main browser window. Just highlight an address and then click and drag the highlighted text over to the gray box in the sidebar and the location will pop up in a map.
Of course, you can do all your usual mapping tricks as well, like searching, getting directions, finding latitude and longitude or e-mailing a map.
The extension also adds a Firefox toolbar item that lets you launch the sidebar. If you're tired of squinting at the sidebar, you can also open the same mapping tools in a full browser tab.
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