Winners of the Extend Firefox 2 Contest

The results of the contest were announced on March 12 and best extensions according to the jury, which included J. J. Garrett, the inventor of the term Ajax, are provided below.

Most of these extensions (those winning at least) were here for a long time, so congratulations from the organizers to candidates to have provided the software on time seem rather superfluous.

The top three extensions

Minimap Sidebar

This extension adds a map in the sidebar. This map will synchronize with the addresses found in web pages.

Sameplace Instant Messenger

It is a messaging software that integrates with Firefox, whose goal is to centralize in the browser all services.

Shareaholic

Used to transmit to bookmark sites or emails URLs of the pages you visit.

The other winners

12 other extensions have been winning:

• All-in-one sidebar
  Allows you to switch from one page to another among all documents in memory, from the sidebar.
• Boox
  Adds new features to bookmarks.
• del.icio.us IncSearch
  Search Tool for bookmarked site on the del.icio.us.
• Fast Dial
  Displays bookmarks as thumbnails.
• FireGestures
  Turns movements of the mouse into commands.
• FootieFox
  Displays sports scores.
• qtl
  Simplified translation tool .
• Shrinkify
  Shrink URLs?
• Table2Clipboard
  Place a table in the clipboard retaining formatting.
• Update Scanner
  Alternative to RSS for website where feed are missing and informs of updates on these sites.
• URL Fixer
  Corrects URLs' extensions (TLD) when they are improperly typed in the bar.

Conclusion

The extensions I use daily, are not in the list of winners, for this edition, but they are in the list of essential extensions for webmasters.