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FireFound is a Firefox add-on and companion Web service that I wrote for the Extend Firefox 3.5 competition in 2009.

Microsoft download from The Garage: Mouse without Borders - Next at Microsoft

I’ve mentioned The Garage a number of times here on Next and Jay Greene also wrote a story recently about some Garage projects recently for Cnet. Today it gives me great pleasure to announce a free download resulting from a Garage project. To recap quickly, The Garage is both a physical space in Building 4 at our Redmond HQ, and a company wide program that encourages grass roots invention, tinkering, ideas and incubation of projects.

One feature many want in Intenet Explorer is the Paste and Go functionality, which you get to see in Maxthon , Opera, Chrome or now even Firefiox !. With this feature you need to simply copy the url from anyhere, including a notepad, right click on the address bar and select Paste and Go, from the context menu, for the webpage to open directly. While by using IE7 Pro , you do get the option ‘Go to url’, you cannot copy it from, say, notepad and then use it.