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Fashion Your Firefox Collection
One of the best aspects of being a Firefox user is the chance to make your copy of Firefox unique to what you like to do on the web. More than any other browser, Firefox offers an amazingly diverse ecosystem of add-ons that lets me do everything from check the weather, monitor my online auctions, listen to music, and find cool new stuff on the web — in fact, there are more than 5,000 different add-ons to choose from.
This week, the number of add-ons downloaded (from the more than 5,000) has reached 1 billion! That is an absolutely staggering number. Firefox is truly unique in having such a large community of add-ons creators that are passionate about extending the capabilities of the web through Firefox.
To make things a little easier for users new to customizing Firefox to sort through all those add-ons, we’ve built a super-simple web application called Fashion Your Firefox that takes a collection of some of the more popular ones and groups them into categories based on how you might use the web. For example, the “Social Butterfly” category for those that are into social networking, “Decorator” for those into changing their Firefox’s color or look, or “Rock Star” for those that want to listen and find new music online.
One of the great things about the Fashion Your Firefox collection is that it allows users to bundle a bunch of different add-ons together all at once. In essence, it’s like having a shopping cart that you can use to select any add-on from the Fashion Your Fox collection, “check-out” with just one click, and after a quick Firefox restart, have a whole new browser that’s made just for you.
There will likely be more collections down there road beyond Fashion Your Firefox. For example, you could imagine a “News Hound” collection with add-ons specifically around news and alerts; a “Web Monkey” collection of add-ons that features tools to help web developers; a “Multi-media” collection that focuses on music, video, and photos; and so on.
A lot of great work went into making this first collection happen — special thanks to Fred Wenzel, Stephen Donner, Fligtar, Neil Lee, Mike Morgan, Boriss, Nicole Loux, Mary Colvig, Mike Shaver, and Rey Bango.
Tags: Add-ons, browser customization, browser customize, customize firefox, Fashion Your Firefox, Firefox add-ons, firefox marketing, Mozilla Marketing Discussion
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Brilliant!
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This is great, but I really hope you can find a way to let people export and share their OWN customizations of Firefox. As I recall, MR Tech’s Local Install extension might do something like that, but it’s be nice to see it available for anybody…
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