Firefox Extension Contest is On & Poppin’

Firefox is getting ready to hold its annual Firefox Extension Contest, where the grand prize winners will get the Ultimate Firefox Developer Kit. The contest, which is called Extend Firefox, is looking for extensions with elegant design, ease of use, and innovation. Extend Firefox ends December 31st and the winners will be announced on January 15, 2008.

All the cool stuff included in the grand prize winners’ developer kit includes travel and accommodations to a Mozilla Developer Day of their choice, a Macbook Pro with VMware Fusion and ActiveState Komodo, a 1 year unlimited access to O’Reilly’s Safari Library, and a Firefox Ogio Messenger Bag filled with schwag. Who doesn’t love t-shirts, mugs and stickers? Speaking of t-shirts, all qualified entrants get one. The panel of judges include industry leaders and technologists, who are to be announced soon.

Google, Mazda, Skype and countless others take advantage of contests to find new ways to use their technology, gain support from the developer community, and offer new products to end users. A fun new Firefox extension that was released last night comes from Meebo, enabling you to chat from a client that’s integrated with your browser. In other news, Firefox recently revealed some details of the upcoming Firefox 3.