Posted on Monday, August 27 2007 @ 4:32 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Mozilla presents a new Firefox Campus Edition aimed at students headed back to school. Wired
writes this new edition features some addons like Zotero, FoxyTunes and StumbleUpon:
he featured add-on in the campus edition are Zotero, FoxyTunes and StumbleUpon. Zotero is a research tool which helps collect, manage and cite research sources, while FoxyTunes lets you control various media players from within Firefox.
The StumbleUpon toolbar seems of dubious usefulness for students, though it is no doubt an excellent time waster and a fun way to find random, engaging websites.
The campus edition page should be available for download sometime later today.
While the student bundle is primarily a PR move on Mozilla’s part, and a good one at that, we can’t help thinking they left out some of the more useful plugins for students.
For instance, Research Word gives Firefox a handy contextual menu item to look up words and phrases in a variety of sources. Select the word to lookup and right-click the selection to access definitions from Wikipedia, Google Definitions, IMDb and more.
For the science majors there’s Biotech, which offers some links and tools for people wanting to research the field of Biotechnology.
You can download Firefox Campus Edition
over here.
