Webupon

Mozilla’s Firefox (www.mozilla.org) web browsing software can change the way we view the internet.  Other web browsers feel sterile, restrictive and lack the customization that Firefox appears to be rife with.  Users can design add-ons that will allow for an improved surfing experience or utilize the 160,000+ add-ons already available in the add-ons section of Mozilla’s website. 

Thunderbird 2

Thunderbird 2 (http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/)—the new version of Mozilla’s email client—offers security upgrades, email importance ratings, customizable folder viewing, and many other features that provide for a novel and adventurous way to organize and engage in the email experience.  The truly unique feature of this email client is people are able to now access multiple email accounts (such as Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, etc) through one stand-alone application. 

FoxyTunes           

Tired of opening and controlling your music player while trying to read emails or shopping online?  Then get FoxyTunes (www.foxytunes.com)!  This add-on, available for Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox, is a ground-breaking way to listen to music while surfing the internet.  This software non-invasively integrates controls for your music player into the web browser.  Far from cumbersome, this amazing software not only integrates controls for 19 popular music players such as iTunes, Winamp, Pandora, Rhapsody, and Windows Media Player; this player can also search for the lyrics of current music, display album artwork and offers several customizable features to play music the way you want to play it.

StumbleUpon

 Enter into a new social network that is larger than a single website.  StumbleUpon (www.stumbleupon.com) offers an unrivaled toolbar that allows all of cyberspace to become your social network.  Users enter their interests into a customizable profile and ‘stumble’ away!  StumbleUpon software uses your suggestions to find websites that may be of interest to your web-browsing experience.  Users can stumble through their favorite sites such as Wikipedia, Youtube, Myspace, or stumble through the entire internet.  While stumbling, people can opt to explore the internet’s wide-variety of pictures, videos and many websites that suit their personal interests.  While exploring, users can rate, review and suggest websites to others through an enormous social network available through a single toolbar and active website! 

Personas

Mozilla Labs has a new experiment that may peak your interest.  Personas (http://www.getpersonas.com/) for firefox is clothing for your web-browser.  This free service offers a new skin for your web browser to spice-up how you see the internet.  These skins suit a wide-array of interests so that users can dress their browser how they please.  And when users become tired of their current skin, they can simply design a new skin or get another from this fun website.

WOT (Web Of Trust)

Not sure if the website you are viewing is safe?  Concerned that it might not be secure enough to recommend to a friend?  Worry no more with WOT – Web Of Trust (www.mywot.com)!  Web Of Trust is an free and easy-to-use application available for Mozilla Firefox.  This software turns the entire internet into a safer peer-reviewed internet experience.  If several people have found a website to be a security risk, a simple colored ring will appear on your browser warning you of the risk.  This software prevents people from websites that attempt to load your computer with viruses, adware and spyware; in addition users of this software are protected from fraud, scams, websites that fish for passwords, and many more security threats.

BetterPrivacy

Whenever people travel to various websites, they are unknowingly providing industry and market research with information on their browsing history.  Websites upload various files onto our computers into to track how we surf the internet.  This however is generally without the permission of the user and can be considered an invasion of privacy.  There are several ways to stop this violation of our privacy but for some whom are not computer savvy, this may be more challenging than the simple, and user-friendly application known as BetterPrivacy.  Better Privacy is an add-on available through the add-ons section of Mozilla’s website (www.mozilla.org).  BetterPrivacy gives users the power to delete and or prevent websites from monitoring web-browsing, restoring privacy and control to the user.