Are Mozilla’s ‘Extend Firefox 3′ Winners A Little Dull?

Here, you'll find Mozilla's list of winners for its "Extend Firefox 3" contest, which asked developers to submit their best add-ons for the browser.

Admittedly, there are a few plug-ins of interest. My absolute favorite is Read It Later by Nate Weiner, which will be downloaded and added on right after this post. As the name suggests, the plug-in saves a local copy of pages (think news stories or individual blog posts) that you'll probably never visit again, but want to read once at a more convenient time. The grand prize winner, Pencil, also seems useful, although not for me.

I yawned at the rest, though.

Take a look at the list. What is it with tags, tags, and more tags? Integration with last.fm? OK, maybe, although my machine has enough memory that I can open the actual application in another window. (I'm not enough of a music nut to care what my friends are listening to at the moment, anyway.) And I really could care less what my bookmarks look like in preview -- I mean, I've bookmarked them. I should know what they look like.

I suspect that there may be some gems in the runners-up, although I'm not sure people are going to be bothered to look. Who voted for these?