With the news of Google, Amazon, etc paying Adblock Plus to be whitelisted I was curious what else was out there. My buddy Aaron suggested uBlock. It's open source, actually uses less resources than ABP and uses the same ad block lists (EasyList, Peter Lowe's Adservers, EasyPrivacy).

This is a boilerplate for Chrome app, extension, and theme development.

Tilt represents a new way of visualizing a web page. I can it being a great tool for new developers to understand the DOM and the box model in particular. This tool creates a 3D representation of the document, with the purpose of displaying, understanding and easily analyzing the DOM. It is a firefox extension using a WebGL implementation to provide a rich user-experience, fun interaction and useful information, while taking full advantage of 3D hardware acceleration.

The implementation consists of a Firefox extension containing a 3D representation of a web page, as both a fun visualization tool and a developer-friendly environment for debugging the document's structure, contents and nesting of the DOM tree. Various information besides the actual contents will be displayed on request, regarding each node's type, class, id, and other attributes if available.

Read more at blog.mozilla.com/tilt/.

Some creative new commercials for the Google Chrome browser:

This 2 minute video is an introduction to ExtensionFM which is a Google Chrome music extension. For more, please visit http://www.extension.fm

"Both extensions now not only show you a Digg count when you’re browsing a story that has been submitted to the service, but, when authorized, they allow you to digg that story right from the overlay drop-down the extension creates when clicked on in the toolbar. Both are fast and simple — especially the Chrome one."

"Firefox extension which allows you to edit any image on the web. After you installed the extension, right click on the image in Firefox and select Edit Image to activate Jetpack Image Editor. Technically speaking, it is like a mini version of Photoshop that runs in Firefox."

This is a short demo of how 6rounds video chat experience gadget works in Google Wave. Natasha presents the lobby of the extension where you take a seat and wait for another user to join and then shows everything that's possible to do in the chat - send virtual animated gifts, perform webcam effects, share activities and games together, change skins and use the ice-break tips.

"FireQuery is a Firefox addon integrated with Firebug. jQuery expressions are intelligently presented in Firebug Console and DOM inspector. Attached jQuery datas are first class citizens. Elements in jQuery collections are highlighted on hover. jQuerify: enables you to inject jQuery into any web page"

"A coat of Chrome for Firefox. Chromifox is a bright and soft blue theme for Firefox on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X, inspired by the appearance of the Google Chrome browser and its open source roots, Chromium."

"This provides tree-style tab bar, like a folder tree of Windows Explorer. New tabs opened from links (or etc.) are automatically attached to the current tab. If you often use many many tabs, it will help your web browsing because you can understand relations of tabs."

"Skips unnecessary pages on sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, zShare, Mediafire, and more."

"Take screen shots and edit images directly from your browser with Aviary.com applications."