Mozilla Labs

Last week several Mozilla folks headed to AJAX Experience, a developers conference in Boston. Part of Mozilla’s presence at the show included a brainstorm contest around Extend Firefox 2. Attendees submitted their coolest, wackiest and most innovative extension ideas to be judged at the end of the week. Check out some of the winning ideas:

• From Josh Ain, an add-on that would color code links to show what type of media they led to – video, a blog, mp3, etc
• From Ajay Reddy, Pregnancy ticker
• From Rick O’Donnell, The Kid Confounder: A novel take on parental controls that allows parents to configure messages that would appear in lieu of “blacklisted” sites or when a child’s time limit ran up on the computer. Messages could include a straightforward error message or more humorous ones such as “Looks like someone has time for homework now” or “Snow days mean Dad doesn’t shovel” and more.
• From Giovanni Flammia, an album view of your bookmarks, tabs, or history like in the iTunes or new MacOSX interface.
• From Brent Ashley, the Talk-like-a-pirate page translation!
• From Tom Baker, an add-on that turns your browser into any vintage computer display – PDP-1, IBM SCAMP, Pal, Apple II, Commodore 64, etc.
• From Denis Moskowitz, an add-on that automatically rewrites all page text in the form of a Shakespearian sonnet.

So what’s your big idea? Let these inspire you and get started on your genius extension or add your ideas to the wiki. You don’t have to be a developer to contribute! What are you waiting for?

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