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"As the Internet becomes more social, it only makes sense that your browser should work to assist you to that end. With Firefox being one of the most customizable browsers with a large community of developers, it comes as no surprise that there are many tools to help you do just that.\u00A0Here are more than 15 tools to turn your Firefox 3 browser into a social hub. \nFrom notifications about what is happening on your favorite social networks to simplifying the social bookmarking submission process, and more, it's all here.\nWhenever we discuss numerous Firefox add-ons, we like to remind you that we do not recommend you install ALL of them unless you like your browser slowing down.\nExtensions\n\nDigg - If you don't feel like having the full official extension for Digg, you can use this unofficial extension that gives you quick and easy access to the popular site.\nFaves - Social bookmarking that lets you save, tag and discuss your favorite pages with friends and other users of the service.\nLinkedIn Firefox Companion - Brings a lot of LinkedIn features to wherever you are on the Web by giving you the ability to highlight text and then right click to search for it, adding LinkedIn info to your email and more.\n\nMahalo Share - Allows you to recommend a page across Delicious, Facebook, Faves, Google Bookmarks, Jaiku MySpace, Ma.gnolia, Pownce, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Twitter,\u00A0 Facebook, and Pownce.\nPropeller Friends' Activity Sidebar - Lets you keep up with what your friends are submitting and voting on with an icon that lights up to notify you.\nShareThis - The well-known green logo is usable inside of Firefox itself. You can use the ShareThis functionality on any page you choose.\nYuku - Part social network/part forums, the Yuku extension will notify you of new mail and other activity on your account, as well as let you switch between your various accounts on the service.\nSocial Browsing\n\nMe.dium - Share where you're surfing with friends and family or even all Me.dium users if you choose.\nShopTalk - An add-on that allows you to see conversations about the page you're on and add to it yourself.\nSiteSays - Lets you see what people are saying about a site in a little window down in the corner of your browse.\nYoono - Yoono brings together just about everything you can think of in one sidebar.\u00A0 Use all of your favorite instant messengers, update all of your various statuses from one location, browse socially, and a whole heck of a lot more.\nToolbars\n\nDelicious - Bring all of your Delicious bookmarks to you instead of you having to go to the site for them.\u00A0 Add new ones, search existing ones, and pretty much everything else you can do at the site.\nDigg - Lets you submit the page you are currently viewing to Digg, check out whats new on the front page, use Google search, and more.\nFacebook - You can search Facebook, receive notifications of new mail, check your friends pictures &amp; profiles, share things you find online, and more.\nShareaholic - This will let you submit a page to most of the popular services such as Digg, Delicious, Mixx and so on, or you can check out how popular a page already is on those services.\nStumbleUpon - The popular social bookmarking site makes an equally popular toolbar for Firefox, which makes it extremely easy to add bookmarks and comments to your account."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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