Expanding on it’s Open Source ‘hive mind’ philosophy, Mozilla’s Firefox browser now allows users to share their personal browser add-ons with the public. How is this accomplished? Through an add-on, of course! The Add-On Collector extension will allow you to publish any or all of your Firefox add-ons to the Mozilla Collections website.  Viewers can peruse others collections or add to their “favorites” for future review and use in their own browser.  Each collections page shows how many add-ons are included and how many subscribers there are.

All you need is to create an account, be using a current version of the Firefox browser and install the Add-on Collector extension.  Once installed, you can hand pick your extensions, add a comment for each (optional) and have them magically added to your own Collections page.  When you register for your own page, you’ll get to pick a username which will be part of link to your public collection.

I created mine and it can be found by clicking the link below:

https://addons.mozilla.org/collection/geak

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Let me know if you start your own add-on collection by posting it in the comments section.