In a post to the official Digg blog, Kevin Rose has announced a new Digg extension for Firefox 3 that incorporates a toolbar and notification system into the popular browser that should appeal to heavy and casual Digg users alike.
In a video introducing the extension, Kevin Rose says that its main purpose is to get a feel for what features users would like to see incorporated into future releases. The extension was developed for Firefox 3, but users can download a Firefox 2 compatible extension here.
Small notification messages now appear in the bottom right of the browser window, displaying updates on topics you’re covering along with your friends’ recent activity (you can specify what events you’d like to receive notifications for). The collapsible toolbar includes a counter that indicates how many Diggs and comment the current page you’re browsing has received, and includes a “Digg It” button that allows you to submit and Digg stories without having to visit the site.
Digg Firefox 3 Extension from Kevin Rose on Vimeo.
I thought TechCrunch was the official Digg blog.
Haha, oh snap!
I automated all the Digg functions I need with iMacros Firefox extension long time ago
http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/
Digg’s developers did the right thing making the toolbar buttons independent from the Digg toolbar so they could live on an existing toolbar rather than taking up a full toolbar themselves.
I also like the “start lean” approach with the most useful features first. I think it fits well with the Firefox way of having not the most features or the least, but the _right_ features.
This is great news - now if they could only get their algos together.
Everything would be perfect
“Perfection” is a flawed human creation that simply cannot exist by definition.
Guru? You mean know-it-all?
It’s not the digg algos that need changing, it’s the users.
It worked perfectly, if just moving the button to another toolbar will not make the button goes crazy on width & height…..it’s just kept bugging me.
Finally! been waiting for something like this
Cool. Digg Rocks!
http://www.givemebeats.com
Push news amazing new ideas that where not annoying in 1998.
How long until we get a version (or Greasemonkey hack) that allows us to digg a toolbar pop up without being taken to the actual permalinked Digg page? Cause that could be dangerous!
Cool tool, except with the popups… it might get annoying if you are doing something important. http://tinyurl.com/applenow
Already built into Flock (FF 2 engine) and Flock 2 beta (FF 3 engine).