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Occasionally, we at OStatic round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational resources are a big part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly collect the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and much more. In this post, you'll find an updated set of more than 40 collections and resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this post is free.

As I'm getting familiar with the new Release Candidate 1 of Firefox 3.5, I'm also busy trying out my favorite Firefox extensions to make sure they all work with it. I'm happy to report that may most favorite Firefox extension, iMacros, works like a charm with it. If you haven't used iMacros, it can make you much more efficient, in many ways. The extension makes it about as easy to create macros for repetitive tasks you perform online as it is to operate a DVD player. You can even save macros that execute complicated tasks as Bookmarks. If you missed our step-by-step visual tour of how to create your first macro in iMacros, you'll find it here below the fold, and it's also worth looking at the iMacros demos available online.?

Everyone who uses Mozilla's Firefox browser knows that it gets much of its power from the thousands of useful extensions available for it. Some Firefox extensions are so powerful that they almost qualify as applications unto themselves, as I find to be true with the awesome iMacros extension. As announced on the Mozilla Add-Ons blog today, Mozilla has introduced Collections, which, among other things, will let you click one link to put a whole set of your favorite Firefox extensions on a new installation of the browser. You can find a video showing how Collections works here, and there are already several useful looking Collections available at the Add-ons for Firefox site (see the right side of the page).?

Every so often, we here at OStatic like to round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project tours. These educational tools are a central part of the learning mission we try to preserve at the site. We regularly round up the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for developers, resources for working with and enjoying online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and much more. In this post, you'll find more than 35 collections and resources. Hopefully, you'll find something to learn from here, and the good news is that everything found in this collection is free.

Here at OStatic, we've often covered the most useful extensions for Mozilla's Firefox browser. The extensions, of course, are what make it such a compelling browser to use. There has been a general trend among Firefox extensions toward extending the way the browser helps you get more out of the applications that you use all the time. In this post, you'll find six of the best examples of these app-helper extensions, which you can grab and install in minutes. Whether you use Google, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, applications on mobile devices, or popular development tools, you'll find top-notch, efficiency-boosting extensions here.

Lifehacker is out with its 2009 Edition of its annual Top 10 Must-Have Firefox Extensions post. This year's list is pretty good, and has contributions from a number of the folks who post on Lifehacker. There are some older extensions on the list, and some new ones. Here are some thoughts on their favorites, and a few extensions we think should be there.

Periodically, we here at OStatic like to round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project walkthroughs. These educational tools are a central part of the goal here at the site. We regularly round up the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for web developers, resources for online video and audio, Linux tutorials, and much more. In this post, you'll find more than 30 collections and resources. Hopefully, there is something right up your alley here, and the good news is that everything you'll find is free.

I've written before about iMacros, which is one of the most useful extensions for the Firefox browser. Especially if you perform a lot of repetitive tasks each day, iMacros can save you tons of time and hassle. It sits in your Firefox toolbar, and lets you record tasks whether they are frequently performed web development tasks, or simple tasks such as opening a series of tabs you use each day. You can also use it for Super Bookmarks, allowing you to use your Bookmarks menu in Firefox for much more complex tasks than just visiting individual web pages. iOpus, which makes iMacros, has recently added a slew of animated online demos for the application, which I highly recommend viewing.

In an effort to coax more users to take advantage of the many extensions for its Firefox browser, Mozilla has just launched FashionYourFirefox.com. The site is divided up into categories, which cater to individual interests and online lifestyles, according to Mozilla's announcement. The site looks like a good idea for extension novices, but I don't see some of my favorite extensions, and some of the categories have a pretty sparse number of extensions.

One of the best pieces of news related to the recent release of version 3 of Mozilla?s Firefox browser is that most popular extensions now work with it. In this post, I?ll present an extensive guided tour to my favorite, free Firefox extension of all: iMacros. If you spend a lot of time in Firefox, and especially if you perform a lot of repetitive tasks each day, iMacros can save you tons of time and hassle. It sits in your Firefox toolbar, and lets you record tasks?whether they are oft-performed web development tasks, or simple tasks such as opening a series of tabs you use each day.