Mozilla partners with Kodak and eBay

[mandy]

Mozilla, the non-profit software group, has agreed a tie-up with eBay as part of its continuing drive to take market share from Microsoft...

The partnership with the world’s largest online auction house will take a similar form to a deal announced yesterday between Mozilla and Kodak.

Under that agreement, the two sides have developed an image-sharing feature that can be added to the Firefox browser. The tool allows users to drag and drop image files from their computer’s hard drive to a Firefox window, which then allows the pictures to be published on Kodak’s Gallery site.

The eBay agreement is based around a similar “widget” that will allow Firefox users to manage auctions from the browser...

full article: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/bu...354642.ece

[BellisimaJ.]

Boo, Mozilla!

[mandy]

Update: testers wanted

We need your help!

Would you like to help Mozilla and eBay build a faster, safer online auction experience? If you’re an experienced eBay member using Firefox, we’d love to hear from you.

We're still testing and improving the Firefox Companion for eBay, but we want quality feedback from eBay members who enjoy an interesting challenge. If this sounds good to you, and you’d like to help us with our testing, please get in touch.

http://en-gb.www.mozilla.com/en-GB/add-ons/ebay/

[Kristijntje]

Related: a group of Stanford students have ported the eBay Toolbar to Firefox:

MyEBayFox is a version of the popular Firefox web browser that has been customized to provide you with a better eBay experience.

        * Search eBay from anywhere
        * Access your account easily
        * Get to ending auctions quickly
        * See image previews for all search results.

more info and downloads: http://myfriendlyfox.com/ebay/

A group of design students at Stanford University have released an eBay toolbar for Firefox, myEBayFox, with some great bells and whistles. Besides basic search features, it removes external ads onthe site and allows users to see thumbnail pictures on ALL search items, even those sellers didn't pay for...

full article: http://www.grooveking.com/blog/2007/05/s...refox.html

[bargainbloodhound]

If I used eBay I would probably be excited by this news...but I don't use it and so I could give a ^(%$.  Hope this helps. 

[BellisimaJ.]

[quote author=bargainbloodhound link=topic=7250.msg53457#msg53457 date=1179332081]
If I used eBay I would probably be excited by this news...but I don't use it and so I could give a ^(%$.  Hope this helps. 
[/quote]

:ditto: