Love all that Google goodness, but do not want multiple home pages on start up or having to depend on multiple bookmarks to access your favorite services? Now you can have easy access to all that Google goodness with GButts.

Install the GButts Extension (Mozilla Add-ons)

via [howtogeek]

Labels: google, mozilla, software_tips, software_tools, web_2.0

Jetpack is a newly formed experiment in using open Web technologies to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work

As with all Labs experiments, Jetpack is an open source project and everyone is welcome to participate in its design, development and testing.

The add-ons community for Firefox is arguably one of the largest with 12,000 add-ons.

Labels: mashups, mozilla, open_source

Happy Cog is implementing the redesign of the Mozilla site, the 3 different concepts are available on site redesignmozilla.org

Labels: mozilla, web_design

caschy posted today a new portable version of spicebird, a thunderbird-outlook competitor based on the famous mozilla app framework.

you can download it now. thx @caschy

A portable application (portable app) is a computer software program that runs from a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM drive, USB flash drive, flash card, or floppy disk....and often it needs no installation... [via wikipedia]

Labels: collaboration, e-business, mozilla, software_tips, software_tools

Mozilla Labs has recently released a major update of Ubiquity, a new Firefox extension and an experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily. It's a Firefox extension, which means it works on Macs, Windows, and Linux...

https://ubiquity.mozilla.com/

via [nettuts]

Labels: mashups, mozilla, software_tips, web_2.0

Six Revisions weblog has 20 Useful Resources for Learning about CSS3

via [sixrevisions]

Labels: browser, cascading_style_sheets, mozilla, opera, software_tips, web_development

Firefox users now can open all .doc, .txt, .rtf, .ppt, .pdf, etc. in Google Docs with a small extension called Open in Google Docs.


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10474

via [webware]

Labels: cloud_computing, collaboration, e-business, mozilla, sharing, software_tips, software_tools

Touch the screen, touch the screen, can you feel my pixel...

9elements created a small jQuery Plugin (jquery.smiledesignersmile.js) which enables you to have an opaque overlay on top of your layout that contains the draft. Through drag and drop you can create a visual match and see if your layout fullfills the designers vision

url: SmileDesignerSmile
demo: smile-designer-smile/demo/

related to: PixelPerfect - firefox & firebug plugin

Labels: browser, javascript, mozilla, software_tools, web_development