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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).?

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.

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.