Students Embarrass eBay With Firefox Add-On

An anonymous reader sends along a posting from the Grooveking blog on a group of Stanford students who got together to help promote Firefox and ended up releasing a long overdue eBay Toolbar for Firefox before Mozilla and eBay could release their jointly developed extension in Europe. Mozilla’s COO said the preemptive release of the eBay Toolbar had ruffled some feathers among European eBay execs.

Long overdue is an understatement. I am a fan of eBay, so I quickly downloaded both to try them out. Although it sounds like two is too many, using both together is quite useful. The unofficial one helps by showing thumbnails for -all- auctions, while the official one can be used to show notifications of auction happenings.

Source: Slashdot