Useful Firefox Add-ons

• Keep in Touch with Friendbar
• Create, Save and Share Your Image Collections
• Quicker Web Searches with Searchy
• Find Greasemonkey Scripts for Your URL
• Kid Friendly Browsing with KidZui
• Easily E-mail and Save Your Open Tabs

Mozilla and Firefox News

• Firefox Plans to Turn Web Apps into Desktop Apps
• Merry Christmas from Firefox Facts
• Go Shopping with the Mozilla Community
• Do We Really Need an Add-on for That?
• Watch Out for the Trojan Greasemonkey!

Best of the Best Firefox Tools

• Turn Your Firefox into an Arcade
• 7 Easy Ways to Make Firefox Better

Firefox Themes

• Pour a Black Glaze on Firefox
• Another Mario Firefox Theme
• The Colorful Themes of Avant.Garde
• LumiNight Theme for Firefox

Firefox Tweaks, Hacks and Tips

• Trouble Removing a Firefox Add-on?
• How to Clear Private Data in Firefox
• How to Recover Your Master Password
• Firefox Nebula Wallpaper
• A New (Simple) Face for an Old Google Reader
• Faster Refreshing for Live Bookmarks

From everybody at Firefox Facts (which I am pretty sure, that is just me) I want to wish all the Firefox fans out there who come in and visit or subscribe to the RSS feed a very happy new year!

Also, be sure to check out the best web hosting podcasts of 2008 too!  Great list of great shows!

Seems like the deeper we get into the holidays and the end of the year, the more Firefox and Mozilla related news comes out.  Are the two events related?  Could be…

• Dear Firefox: Please forgive me  When we met three years ago, I thought: This is it, the browser I’ve been waiting for. I’ve found my life partner. So I dumped Internet Explorer faster than you can say “unrecoverable system error” and we moved in together. Sure, we had our ups and downs over the years, but overall it was great. Really.
• Mozilla Sponsors the First Annual Add-On-Con – the first annual Add-on-Con Conference has been announced. The conference, hosted by add-on developers OneRiot, AdaptiveBlue & Sxipper is the first event specifically designed to bring together developers who are interested in improving their capabilities to produce professional add-ons.
• Mozilla to Firefox Add-On Developers: Stop Being Lazy – Mozilla evangelists are starting to develop tools to track Firefox’s very healthy add-on ecosystem, primarily with regard to how they adapt to upcoming Firefox versions.  In fact, the newest Firefox version, 3.1, is already in the hopper, but according to a Mozilla blog post, add-on developers aren’t ready for it. Only 20% of the most-used Firefox add-ons are ready for the upcoming version.
• How To: Disable Google SearchWiki from Firefox and Opera – Google SearchWiki is new feature built inside Google’s Search that lets you customize the search results by moving a site up or down or even adding new pages etc. This feature has created a lot of buzz on the internet as many people has expressed their dissatisfaction for making this feature a default inside Google’s Search.

More Firefox News, Tips and Links

• Mozilla To Lose It’s Non-Profit Status
• Better Gmail Updates, Gets Calendar and Reader Integration
• FoxGLove is Firefox for Google addicts
• QuoteURLText Copies Highlighted Text and Source URL

Have a Firefox link, news or add-on review to share?  Feel free to pass them along in the comments!

With the upcoming weekend holiday, I know a lot of you will want to stash away a few links to save for later – maybe when Uncle Sam is telling you his World War 2 stories again or when the pool is full, or you has a belly filled with mashed potatoes. Here is a little link love for some other popular, interesting and neat stories from around the Web.

Use Yahoo! Mail or Gmail for MailTo Links in Firefox 3

Top 10 Firefox 3 Features

Mal-what? Firefox 3 vs. Bad People

Firefox 3.1 targeted for year’s end

What Happened to the Microformats Support in Firefox 3?

Rotten Tomatoes says IE7 “Rotten”, Firefox 2 “Fresh”

Firefox Team Crossing The Delaware

Also don’t forget that today is Support Firefox Day! Have another link to share? Feel free to comment and post.

The section on how it compares to the others was the most enlightening of all:

Firefox remains the best browser on the whole, with great features, impressive improvements all-round, a revised bookmarking system and thousands of add-ons to make it easy to perfectly customise.

The improvements in performance are stellar, it’s got some well-integrated features than everyone will use (resumable download manager, tag-ready bookmarking) and it offers, overall, a better, richer Web experience. We’re behind Firefox and we hope that when the final release is out it’ll be just that little bit better to boot.

More great news for the Mozilla crew!  Is there something the other browsers are getting or doing that you wish Firefox 3 would try to do too?

• miniFox & miniFoxFlat – both pretty to look at and still functional to use. both also have the same basic look and style.
• Classic Compact – seen pictured above, gives you a smaller version of the default theme.
• Le Breeze – tiny and not distracting in the least, it will help you keep your attention the web page you are viewing and not the browser your using.
  
• Nautipolis – not on any of my real top 10 lists (sorry gnome guys), it is small but kinda ugly to boot.
  
• Microfirefox – another slightly ugly, yet functional tiny them.
  
• Littlefox – looks like a clone of Nautipolis, where’s the difference?

Know of a great looking (and small) theme I might have missed? Please let me know about it. I like the idea of having a smaller Firefox interface to look at – I just have yet to really find the theme that pulls it all together for me.

Want to go back to the Office?

Now I don’t know too many people who say, “I’m such a big fan of Office, I wished all my apps looked like this!” but love it or hate it, the Office look makes for a pretty nice Firefox theme. If your looking for that traditional Microsoft look – but with a little class and style the Office theme for Firefox might be the download you have been looking for.

Stick it up your aero, Vista!

Our next Firefox theme inspired by the Microsoft machine looks like it fell out of Windows Vista. If your a big fan of the way the new Internet Explorer 7 looks then the Vista-areo theme might be up your alley. Sleek blue style with that Microsoft glow.

Crappy, yet classic Microsoft style…

Now this is the style that you know and love. No wait, does anybody really love the classic and familiar look of IE6? No – it couldn’t be.. could it? Well if you do fall in that camp then the Looks Familiar theme for Firefox is a download you might want to do in private. Close the blinds though and make sure nobody sees you using it.

• Another Gmail Apple Theme?
• Tip: Pause/Restrict/Disable Animated GIFs
• Automatically translate RSS feeds with Google Reader and Firefox
• Best Firefox Feed Readers
• Auto-Hide Your Firefox Bookmarks Toolbar
• Get More from Google Notebook Guide (some Firefox goodies)

Spooked yet? Ok, so not many of those were all that scary – but they were useful! Now if you are really looking for a fright, go use Internet Explorer.

What are the top 10 Firefox features that don’t require extensions?

FoxSaver (a Firefox Screensaver) supports MediaRSS! This is the one thing they were lacking and now I think it is a very unique and useful extension all should give a second look to if you missed it the first time around.

Need an arts and crafts project for the weekend? Go ahead and bake up some Firefox cookies! Who knew a browser could be so yummy?

Having trouble finding the right extension to help you with your downloading needs? Mashable is at it again with another mega list – this time covering 30+ Firefox Add-ons For Downloading Images, Videos & Files.

Mozilla security patches are coming, well they are coming really really quickly – hopefully, I promise.

Do you have a link to share?

• Remove 3rd Party Apps from Facebook.com!
• Tips – Customize and Sync Firefox
• Increase RSS Feedburner Subscriptions Using Firefox Live BookMarking
• Enhance Firefox’s Default Searching Habits
• Make Your Own Firefox Extensions – Impress the Neighbors!

Have any other interesting links you’ve run across leave a comment and let us know. Share nicely!

Tiny Menu – Replace the standard menu bar with a tiny menu popup.

Hide Menubar – Supports to hide your Mainmenu Toolbar automatically, you can press the ALT key to show it temporarily.

Personal Menu – With the Personal Menu, you can hide the menus in Menus Toolbar (even the Menus Toolbar), and design your own menu with just few settings.

Menu Editor – Rearrange or remove menuitems from the main context menu (right-click menu) and main menubar (File Edit View etc.)

MenuX – MenuX was designed for laptop/tablet use where maximum screen realestate is desired. Adds the ability to collapse any toolbar.

Have another one that deserves to be on the list? Drop in a comment and let us all know about it.