Visualize the Firefox History

I have to admit that I’m not using the Firefox history function at all and clear it - and other data - whenever I exit Firefox. Call me a little bit paranoid but I prefer it that way. Some of my friends however love their history, they use it to access websites with a few clicks instead of using the keyboard. Each to his own I’d say.

I think we can all agree that the Firefox history in the way it is displayed in the sidebar is not the optimal way of displaying information. Only the page titles are displayed and as we all know webmasters are a lazy bunch, they create websites using copy paste and some tend to use the same title for all of their pages which makes it quite difficulty to identify the correct one.

ThumbStrips visualizes the Firefox History. After installing the extension it adds a toolbar at the bottom of your Firefox screen that displays screenshots and titles of the latest websites that the user has visited. Thumbnails can be sorted as well by dragging and dropping them around. A click on a thumbnail loads the website immediately.

Extend Firefox 2 Results are up

The winners of the Extend Firefox 2 contest have been announced yesterday. The contest did end on December 31th of 2007 and saw more than 100 entries. The task was to create a Firefox add-on in time, the prices travel and accommodation to a Mozilla Developer Day, a 15″ Macbook and several others. I don’t think that most participants did enter the competition for the prices though.

The three Grand Prize winners are Tony Farndon from the United Kingdom for his Minimap Sidebar Extension, Massimiliano Mirra from Italy for his SamePlace add-on and Jay Meattle from the United States who created the Shareaholic add-on.

Minimap Sidebar Extension displays a minimap in the sidebar. Maps can be easily created by drag and drop or by right-clicking the information. It’s a real time saver if you have to lookup maps regularly.

SamePlace is a multi-network Instant Messenger add-on that makes it possible to chat with buddies from many IM networks in Firefox.

Shareaholic is a great add-on that lets a user add pages that he visits to popular social bookmarking and news websites like delicious and digg.