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Envisioning a Firefox Extension for Political Transparency (With Mockups!)

JoeSolomon — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:27:38 -0400

This post is based on a proposal I created for MAPLight.org in early April '08. The mockups are also dated to that time.

Firefox extensions have a huge, largely untapped potential for social change. By changing the way we interact with the web, a browser extension can highlight issues, expose relationships, and raise awareness as people browse the web. More specifically, a Firefox extension could help illuminate the connection between money and politics when and where that connection is often most needed -- when people search for and visit legislators' websites.

What are your favorite examples of using social networks for social change?

JoeSolomon — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:41:04 -0400

Thank you kbaird for the photo!

Knowmore Firefox Extension debuts at NetSquared 2008!

dietrich — Tue, 27 May 2008 15:42:11 -0400

I spent some time last week helping out a group of folks to get a Firefox extension up and running for Knowmore.org. It was a great experience - a testament to the power of distributed volunteer software development as well as how Firefox as a platform can enable such groups to rapidly build and deploy world-changing tools. As officially announced on Knowmore.org today, the extension is live! For screenshots and details, check out the wiki page, and you can install it here (still sandboxed, login is required).

Spread Firefox

Deborah Elizabeth Finn — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:08:10 -0500

Project Screenshot

Supporting organization

The Mozilla Foundation

URL

www.spreadfirefox.com

Project Description

Firefox is a free open source web browser developed and distributed under the leadership of the Mozilla Foundation. The Spread Firefox web site is the focal point of an effort to foster a community of Firefox users, and to support them in winning wider acceptance for the application. The project met its goal of 100,000,000 downloads of Firefox in the first year that the browser was released.