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Rapportive

Want to add information rich profiles to Gmail? Then you need the Rapportive add-on for Firefox.  This great add-on will allow you to see what people look like, where they are based, a few of their interests and social network profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and more.

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Better Interface for Gmail

Do you want to customize the Gmail interface to your liking and strip away the ads? The Firefox extension, Gmelius, will do that and much more.  It is the sleekest Gmail related add-on for Firefox I have seen in a long time.

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Pinned Tabs 101

Firefox comes with the ability to pin tabs to the browser.  What exactly does this do?  Well, you can keep some websites (like Facebook or Twitter) a click away.  This makes it a lot easier to prevent accidentally closing them and they will also start when you start the browser up. 

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App Tabs in Firefox

Since being added to Firefox, I have not spent a lot of time talking about App Tabs.  What are they? Well, in a nutshell – they help you keep pages you visit or want to keep track of – extremely handy. When you make a tab an App Tab, it shrinks it down to just [...]

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Block Google+ Notifications on Other Apps

Tired of seeing Google+ notifications on other Google applications? This simple user script will do the trick.  The Google+ Notifications Blocker user script is the script you want to install to get rid of any Google+ notifications in the upper right hand corner of other Google services, like Gmail – as one example.

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Prism Development Dropped

Over at Mozilla Labs, they announced that they are no longer going to maintain the Prism project.  For those of you who remember, Prism was Mozilla’s answer to the chrome-less browser.  Something you could use to launch web applications (like Gmail) as a desktop application.  The idea was to blur the line between desktop programs [...]

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F1 Bring Social Link Sharing to Firefox

Mozilla is getting into the world of social link sharing.  With F1, you can add the functionality of sharing a link on Twitter, Gmail or Facebook into the Firefox browser.  This neat add-on has a lot of potential, and is simple enough for anybody to pick up and use.

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Turn Off Session Restore

Due to privacy concerns, some Firefox users may wish to disable or turn off the session restore feature in Firefox. As an example, if your computer is used by multiple users, the browser could crash while you are checking your Gmail account.  Rather than restoring Firefox, you decide to go do something else.  When somebody [...]

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Search in Firefox Panorama

I have made no secret about the fact that the one feature I am looking most forward to in Firefox 4 is the new Firefox Panorama tool (formerly known as Tab Candy).  Now, I have shown you why Panorama is really handy when it comes to getting rid of the extra browser windows, but now [...]

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Essential Firefox Add-ons for Google Reader

My RSS feed reading application of choice is Google Reader.  I have been using it for several years now, and it has never let me down.  Now, that is not to say it could not be improved though.  Here are a few ways you can make your RSS feed reading in Google Reader even better. [...]

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