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You want to be productive, right? Right. Here’s a Firefox extension that will possibly save your loafing butt from unemployment. Enter PaNIC: Productivity and Networking Information Component.

PaNIC is set to be activated by the Alt key and the tick ` symbol up there by the 1 on your keyboard. Press those two buttons at the same time, and all of your tabs in Firefox will get killed instantly, and replaced with a Google search for “increasing workplace productivity”. You can edit the hot keys and web page address via the extension’s preferences menu.

Important! This is tested on Firefox 2.0. This might blow up earlier versions of Firefox.

Install PaNIC 0.2
(Size: 8kb Release Date: October 24th 2006)

Tested on Firefox 2.0.

There are some really good resources floating around out there for aspiring Firefox developers. The difficult part is finding them all under one roof. Here are a couple of things that I’ve found or used over the past few days / months / years, so I thought I’d share a couple of them with you, and some of you out there could add to the list.

Ted Mielczarek has created a really handy-dandy extension wizard for either Firefox or Thunderbird authors. It creates a skeleton shell of an extension that lays out the code properly and has all the correct formats in place. It’s a really good start for someone who’s experimenting with extension creations.

He also has a plethora of extensions and other developer tools at his web site, so I suggest you check them out:

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/

Another useful tool (which might becoming obsolete soon, thanks to new, more friendlier ways of creating identifiers) is right here on this web site, although it doesn’t have a really clear link to it:

http://extensions.roachfiend.com/cgi-bin/guid.pl

It will generate valid GUIDs and you can also see how the script is set up.

Feel free to list some good resources you may have found around the net.

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