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5 Firefox Add-on Collections Worth Checking!

13-Jul-09

Previously we have covered the collections feature on Firefox Add-ons website, by which you to categorize, mix, match and mingle add-ons.  And, subscribe to collections created by other users or create your own.

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Here are 5 Firefox Add-on Collections Worth Checking!

Web Developer’s Toolbox

This is a collection of 12 add-ons which help you speed up the development process by using add-ons to troubleshoot, edit, and debug web projects without ever clicking away from Firefox.

Lifehacker’s Must-Have Extensions

Ten broadly useful extensions, as detailed at: Must have Firefox extensions 2009 edition – Lifehacker. This is  a collection of 9 addons, which includes popular addons like: Greasemonkey, Xmarks , Better Gmail 2 and more.

Reference Desk

This is a collection of 13 addons that help students, researchers or anyone with a tough question to find and document all the answers.

Social Circuit

Whether it’s finding a job or staying connected with old classmates these  social networking add-ons keep the most popular sites front and center. This is  a collection of 17 addons including Digg Toolbar, Twitbin, Meebo etc.,

Traveler’s Pack

When the travel bug bites, these add-ons make it easy to plan, book and document your trip — without getting lost along the way.

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Mozilla Labs releases Ubiquity 0.5

08-Jul-09

Today Mozilla Labs announced the release a major upgrade to Ubiquity.

This release, Ubiquity 0.5, focuses on making the instructions you give to Ubiquity feel more natural and human, as well as bringing Ubiquity’s power to many more languages.

ubiquity smart suggestions

This release brings:

  • The first internationalized Ubiquity, where even non-coders can help bring Ubiquity to their language.
  • A more natural, human, and robust way to give Ubiquity instructions.
  • A new, game-inspired interactive tutorial.
  • Experimental smart suggestions: type “pasta” and Ubiquity recommends Yelp. (This feature needs to be enabled on the Ubiquity settings settings page).

Install Ubiquity 0.5 here.

You can also check out Planet Ubiquity for the latest happenings on Ubiquity.

Source: Mozilla Labs Blog

Lessons From Mozilla: WordCamp San Francisco 2009

08-Jul-09

John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, presents at WordCamp San Francisco 2009 on Open Source, lessons learned from Mozilla, and the role of community.

Mozilla Labs Launches: Open Web Tools Directory

07-Jul-09

There is this massive collection of tools available on the web to help web developers, incredible tools and apps: To provide a central location for these amazing tools, Mozilla Labs launched the  ‘Open Web Tools Directory‘.

open web tools directory

Note: A modern browser with canvas is required to view this, like Firefox 3.5, Safari 4, Chrome 2, or Opera 9.

The site is built on a complete ’space’ theme to stress the massive size of the tool ecosystem. To submit your tool, you can get started by filling up this entry form.  Your entries won’t go live immediately, but the Mozilla team will review them on a regular basis and get them added.

We are very much excited about this incredible release, read more about the Open Web Tools Directory.

Install Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu with with One Command

03-Jul-09

firefox3.5If you are eager to grab and install a working copy of the newly released Firefox 3.5, then below is the command you can paste into your standard terminal.

wget -O - http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.5/linux-i686/en-US/firefox-3.5.tar.bz2 | tar xj -C ~

Before proceeding, you will want to back up your existing Firefox profile, data and create a new launching point for Firefox 3.5, as Firefox 3.0.11 will remain on your system until Ubuntu’s official repositories update.

Source: kabatology via LifeHacker

Firefox Ninjas – A Good Start! [Monthly Wrap up]

28-Jun-09

firefox ninjas -  a good start

We, Firefox Ninjas, started this blog in the last week of May and its just about a month now. We are still new on the web, but we are looking good. We wanted to share  our first month blogging and networking experience here.

Blogging

We made over twenty posts this month for which we received over 4,100+ page loads – of which 2,800 were unique visitors and around 500 returning visitors.

A couple of our articles made it to the homepage of Dzone.Com, which brought us substantial traffic.

Friends

We discovered other Firefox fan blogs like: Feel Firefox, Firefox Facts, Mozilla Links, Mozillazine and Firefox Extension Guru’s blog. Apart from the official Mozilla blogs, we are reading these blogs to keep track of every update and news about Mozilla Firefox.

Theme

Firefox Ninjas is powered by the Evolution WordPress theme by BloggingTips.com. It wouldn’t have been possible to impress you without this incredibly pleasing theme.

The plugins which are used in this theme are:

Apart from the above, we use other plugins including: Adminize, All in One SEO Pack, Contact Form 7, Google XML Sitemaps, Link Within, SexyBookmarks, TweetMeme, Posts by Author, and WP Polls.

Social Networking

In this period of one month we got over 450 Twitter followers, 80+ feed subscribers and 30+ subscribers on Friendfeed. It’s our pleasure to meet each and every one of you. Thanks for subscribing to our feed, connecting and following us on Twitter.

Sponsors

We offer text links and Image Ads preferably 125 by 125 size on our sidebar.  In the first month, we made friends with Buy Templates, a dedicated website which offers blog templates and icon sets. We came across Mozillaca, a micro blog for the Mozilla community and we promote it too.

Microblog for Mozilla CommunityWebsite and Blog TemplatesXP and Vista style icons at affordable rates

Thanks to our fabulous sponsors, if you would like to advertise your product or service on Firefox Ninjas, feel free to check out our Advertise page.

Update: We got a Page Rank of 3 in just a time span of one month.

Thanks to everyone who made this possible. We will continue to keep you updated with latest news and updates from Firefox.

Firefox Ninjas Team

Evolution Wordpress Theme

Evolution ThemeThe Evolution Wordpress Theme is a simple yet effective theme which we have released under the Creative Commons License.

The theme was designed with simplicity in mind and would be perfect for someone looking for a design for their personal blog, journa or portfolio. We have kept the features to a minimum in this theme however it is very easy to modify should you want to add plugins to it.

By default the sidebar has got three main areas : a subscription section, recent posts and recent comments. The theme is widget ready though so it is very easy to add to the sidebar. This theme has been designed for use with Wordpress 2.5+.

There are two folders in the zip above. The ‘evolution’ folder contains all of the theme files and should be uploaded to your ‘wp-content/themes’ folder. The second folder is called ‘evolution-plugins’. This contains all of the plugins the theme uses and should be uploaded to the ‘wp-content/plugins’ folder.

Full support for this theme is provided in the BloggingTips Theme Support Room.


Plugin Info

The plugins which are used in this theme are :

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