My latest Firefox add-on giddiness producer is PicLens. Makes looking at all those Flickr pics (or Picasa or other or whatever photo collections you are viewing on a website) really easy to see and select from. Amazing app.

Available from Firefox Add-ons (you know where they are) or download from here for all supported platforms: PicLens

Why would anyone still use IE? I mean... WHY?

Firefox has a spectacular add-on called "Temporary Inbox" which creates a six-hour email address for all those places where you have to supply one in order to register.

I use it a lot to sign up, send a confirm email, and then in six hours, that box is closed. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2650/

If you do not have Firefox, you can get TI from the website directly: www.temporaryinbox.com

This is a great feature for spam prevention because the site has no long-term email for you that it can pass on to another marketer.

Clearly, if you are signing up for something like your bank, you would use a real email address, but for all those sites that "require" an email address, just so you can play a game, or get a newspaper article, this tool is irreplacable.

I just discovered www.scroogle.org which is an ad-free Google search site that does not track your searches. Not only are there no paid placements or other ads, the results are Google results but in one long scroll instead of pages.

If you are looking for a way to use Google without Google tracking all your searches, this is the engine for you. If you want an ad-free search engine, this is it.

This engine can be added to the Firefox search engine list. Go to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ and in the Search PlugIns, enter scroogle. You want the third option by Sean Cassidy (yeah, yeah), which is the English version, unless you speak French or Polish.