We are happy to announce the winners in our Extend Firefox Contest, a contest held to award the best and brightest extension developers in the Firefox community. The contest asked entrants to create Firefox Extensions that are innovative, useful, and integrate with today's Web services. Over 200 Extensions were submitted to the contest. Many thanks to everyone who entered and everyone who helped spread the word about the contest.
Grand Prize Winner New
Extension
Best in Class Best
User Experience New Extension
Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your history by
mousing over the back and forward buttons. With many tabs open, quickly
find the page you want, by pressing F2. Reveal also has a rectangular
magnifying glass you can use to zoom in on areas of any web page. Comes
with a quick tour of all the features.
Grand Prize Winner Upgraded
Extension
Web developer toolbar includes various development tools
such as
window resizing, form and image debugging, links to page validation and
optimization tools and much more.
Grand Prize Winner Best Use of
Firefox 1.5 Features
View open Tabs and Windows with Showcase. You can use it
in two
ways: global mode (F12) or local mode (Shift + F12). In global mode, a
new window will be opened with thumbnails of the pages you've opened in
all windows. In local mode, only content in tabs of your current window
will be shown.
You can also right click in those thumbnails to perform the most usual
operations on them. Mouse middle button can be used to zoom a
thumbnail, although other actions can be assigned to it.
Best in Class Most Innovative
New Extension
Click on the icon in the status bar to view all Web pages in Tabbed
windows as thumbnail images. Press F8 to activate foXpose.
Best in Class Most Innovative
Upgraded Extension
A lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator. Alt+S to open
Sage in the Sidebar to start reading feed content.
Best in Class Most Useful New Extension
Manage tabs by creating a tab separator. Right click on a Tab to add
a new Tab separator. Click on the Tab separator to view thumbnail
images of web sites that are to the left and right of the Tab separator.
Best in Class Most Useful
Upgraded Extension
Highlight text, create sticky notes, and more to Web pages
and Web
sites that are saved to your desktop. Scrapbook Includes full text
search and quick filtering of saved pages.
Best in Class Best User
Experience Upgraded Extension
Manage Extensions, Themes, Downloads, and more including
Web content via Firefox’s sidebar.
Best in Class Best Integration with a Web Service New Extension
Allows sticky notes to be added to any web page, and viewed upon
visiting the Web page again. You can also share sticky notes. Requires
account.
Best in Class Best Integration
with a Web Service Upgraded Extension
Get international weather forecasts and display it in any
toolbar or status bar.