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Dislike 0.2 Adds A Disapproving Dislike Button To Facebook

9:30AM Sarah Rae Trover | Firefox only: Since the dawn of the Like button on Facebook, people have rallied for its counterpart, the Dislike button. Although Facebook hasn’t stepped up to the plate with their own Dislike button, French developer Thomas Moquet has made it possible for Firefox users. More »
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Tab Progress Bar Brings Forward A Firefox 3.7 Feature

6:00AM Whitson Gordon | Firefox only: Firefox 3.7 is scheduled to push page-loading progress bars into tabs, but for those of you who want to stay on the cutting edge, the feature is available now with the aptly named Tab Progress Bar Firefox extension. More »
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Pin Tab Offers Chrome-Like Pinned Tabs In Firefox

5:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Firefox: If you’ve noticed the pinned-tab feature in Google Chrome and would like to give it a try in Firefox, Pin Tab adds a simple and lightweight pinning feature to Firefox. More »
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Chromium Installs User Scripts As Extensions

3:00AM Kevin Purdy | The nightly builds of Google Chrome’s open-source foundation, Chromium, includes a feature that might mean great things for Greasemonkey fans. Click on a user script file, such as at UserScripts.org, and Chromium asks to install it as a working extension. More »
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Tabberwocky Supercharges Your Firefox Tabs

1:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Firefox only: If you love tabbed browsing in Firefox but want more control over the appearance and functionality of the tabs, you’ll definitely want to check out Tabberwocky to super charge your tabbed browsing. More »
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Minimalist Gmail Pares Gmail Down To The Basics

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Firefox: If you liked the look of Zen Habits’ Minimalist Gmail adaptation, but don’t usually roll with Greasemonkey scripts, a coder has put together a single Firefox extension that can hide header, footer, and sidebar elements for an elegant look. More »
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Better Flickr 0.4.1 Now Available

9:59AM Gina Trapani | It took over a month (!), but Mozilla Add-ons has finally approved a long-delayed update to the Better Flickr Firefox extension. You can see more about what changed here; my favourite addition to this version is the Flic.kr Short URL script, which displays a short, Twitter-friendly URL on all Flickr photos for easy tweeting. (Forget Twitpic and those other photo-sharing services; Flickr is still where it’s at.) Download version 0.4.1 of Better Flickr at Mozilla Add-ons.
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Glue Suggests Movies, Music And More

6:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Firefox: Glue fuses together suggestion engines with your tastes, the tastes of your friends, and what’s popular so you can easily find your next favourite movie, album, book or even bottle of wine. More »
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Firefox Now Auto-Blocks Microsoft .NET Extensions

7:00AM Kevin Purdy | Firefox users on Windows probably have the .NET Framework Assistant extension installed, even if they don’t remember asking it to install (they didn’t). Now Mozilla is blocking the extension for all users to stop a security breach. More »
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Automatically Open PDFs, PowerPoint Presentations With Google’s Doc Viewer

8:00AM Adam Pash | Most web browsers: Google’s Doc Viewer allows you to view any PDF, PPT, and TIFF directly in your browser without downloading the file and launching another heavy desktop application. This user script automatically redirects any link to such files to Doc Viewer More »