Mar22'11

Mozilla F1: finding a new home

Welcome to the latest release of Mozilla F1. We have two new and exciting changes!

The Toolbar button has moved

With this latest release we’re moving the toolbar button beside the bookmark star icon, this is part of an effort to integrate better with Firefox.

F1 is now a restart-less add-on

Well, you had to restart one more time to get this feature, but it’s the last time. We swear! Future versions of F1 will be able to update themselves without requiring you to restart your browser. When a new version is ready it will download and update itself automatically (according to your preferences of course).

That’s pretty awesome!

If you’re interested in the technical details behind this change see the Firefox restart-less add-on documentation.

F1 Feedback

A slight change during this release is that we’ve also made a new home specifically for Mozilla F1 feedback. If you have an idea for improving F1 drop us a line or vote up the ideas you think are important. Thanks!

Firefox integration

We’ve started down a new road in the Mozilla F1 project. We have researched sharing on the web and learned a lot about how we can improve it. Our next challenge is to examine what a sharing service would look like if it were integrated into the browser. Not just and as an add-on but a part of your browsing experience.

So bear with us as we make a few changes, hopefully the good ones will be good and the bad ones will be quick!


Mozilla F1 is a Firefox browser extension that allows you to share links in a fast, fun, and safe way. Share links from within the browser, from any webpage, using the same services you already know and love. Go try it out!

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Bryan Clark

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Mozilla F1, Sharing

Installation

All of our add-ons are listed in the official addons.mozilla.org site.

To install any of these add-ons in Thunderbird, follow these steps.
(In Thunderbird)

  1. 1. Open the Tools menu
  2. 2. Select Add-ons
    to open the add-ons dialog
  3. 3. Click on the Get Add-ons
    tab to open search page
  4. 4. Click in the Search
    All Add-ons text box
  5. 5. Search for the add-on
    name click on Install in the results

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