Users who spend a fair share of their web time around social web sites and chat will be glad to meet the new Yoono 5, currently in private beta status.

Yoono 5 beta is a powerful Firefox extension, that integrates with several social networking sites including Facebook, Twitter, Piczo, Flickr and FriendFeed. Once you provide your credentials, you are able to see contacts in each network, their latest activities, posted photos and access to their respective messaging systems, post to Twitter or upload photos to Flickr.

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Despite its name, Paste Email, a Firefox extension developed by Chuck Baker, allows you to paste any of up to 16 different short text notes you find yourself typing frequently. It was originally conceived as a quick way to paste your email address but has well grown beyond that.

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When you scroll the mouse wheel over the tab bar in Firefox you see the tab titles pass by so you can select the tab you want, which is not always that easy if titles are similar like when having several pages from the same site open at a time.

With Tab Wheel Scroll, a Firefox extension developed by Matt H, the mouse wheel actually switches tabs so you can see the full tab contents as you scroll up and down which you can configure to scroll tabs to the left or to the right.

You can also set whether you want to continue with the first or last tab when you have reached the opposite edge so scrolling keeps going. This sounded as a good option at first but turning it off actually made it more usable for me.

Bonus points for not adding any unnecessary user interface other than its options accessible from the Add-ons Manager, and being already compatible with Firefox 3 betas and nightlies.

An option (like Ctrl + scroll) for simple tab title scrolling would be welcomed.

Tab Wheel Scroll is available from Mozilla Add-ons experimental area, so you will need to log in to install it.

Closing, bookmarking, moving several tabs a time is no fun task as it may require a lot of clicking and dragging.

Not any more with Multiple Tab Handler, a helpful Firefox extension developed by the prolific SHIMODA Hiroshi, that takes Firefox tabs management a natural step forward: press the Ctrl key and click on the tabs you want to select. Then right click on the selection and choose what you want to do: close, reload, move (within the same window or to a new one), duplicate, bookmark, and even copy the tabs addresses as text or HTML.

You can also select tabs by clicking on one, holding for a second or so and then drag over the tabs you want. The context menu will appear when you release the mouse button. Read the rest of this entry »

Select, right-click, copy, switch, right-click paste. Rinse. This is the typical copy/paste procedure we all repeat several times a day and one worth looking for ways to make it more efficient.

Here are a few ways Firefox users can enhance good old copy/paste.

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Glubble, the powerful, fun parental control Firefox extension received a The Next Web Award in the Rookie of the Year category.

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Mozilla Labs has released a new version of Prism, a Firefox-based application that aims to make web applications fit better in today’s computer desktops. Prism runs one web application on a single window providing some features only possible for desktop programs in the past.

Along with the update to the stand alone Prism, comes Prism for Firefox extension (code named Refractor), a Firefox extension that eases the creation of web application profiles (.webapp files): just navigate to the web app main page and select Convert Website to Application from Firefox’s Tools menu.

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Two of the main new features Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 introduced last week, Activities and WebSlices, are now available for Firefox users.

Activities, is a simple way to add web services you can direct text selections to for further detail. For example, you can select a word of a web page, select a define activity and get the definition from a provider you have added like Dictionary.com or Answers.com. You can do the same with a street address.

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Extend Firefox 2, a Mozilla sponsored contest for extension developers, came to an end on December 31 and the winners were announced today:

Tony Fardon for his Minimap Sidebar Extension, an easy way to look for and save maps for addresses on several of online map services.

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It was announced today that Yahoo! has acquired FoxyTunes, the company that develops FoxyTunes, a popular Firefox extensions that allows controlling virtually any media player from Firefox’s status bar.

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