Mozilla announces winners of Extend Firefox 3 contest

(TheForceField.Net ) August 22, 2008 — Mozilla announced the winners of the Extend Firefox 3 contest. The competition, held between March and July, was held to encourage developers to create add-ons for the new Firefox 3 web browser released last month. Categories included Best New Add-On, Best Updated Add-On and Best Music Add-On.

The winners of Best New Add-On included Pencil, an open source GUI prototyping and drawing tool, Tagmarks, which allows a user to add icons to bookmarks and HandyTag, a tool that provides keywords to bookmarks.

Grand prize for Best Updated Add-ons went to Read It Later, which allows a user to save pages for reading offline, TagSifter, a tag and bookmark organizer and Bookmark Previews, which allows a user to preview bookmarked pages.

Best Music Add-On went to Fire.fm, a tool that allows a user to listen to music on Last.fm. You can find the details of the contest and list of winners at http://blog.mozilla.com/extendfirefox .

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