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At the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco today, Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker gave an address on opening the mobile web, which Webware did a nice job of analyzing. Many people have been wondering if Mozilla will deliver a version of the Firefox browser to work with the many Linux-based phones currently in the works, including phones based on Google's Android platform. While Baker didn't concretely confirm those details, she did discuss an upcoming mobile browser from Mozilla, to arrive later this year, code-named Fennec. (A Fennec is a small fox--get it?)

Recently, I've done a couple of posts on Firefox efficiency boosts and extensions, plus a tips post. A few of these tips were new to readers, and sometimes it helps to be able to visualize how a tip works.

So in this post, I'm going to supply a photo tour of some top Firefox efficency boosts that you can get going with as soon as you see the screenshots. These can save you time and hassle if you, as I do, work in this open source application all day.

Did you know that according to a recent Forrester report, Mozilla's open source Firefox browser now reaches 18 percent of corporate desktops?

I use Firefox almost exclusively as my browser (sometimes Internet Explorer works better for applications with, say, lots of pop-ups), and I'm a big believer that you can get much more out of it if you investigate the excellent extensions and enhancements available for it. In this post, I'll round up some good coverage we've done on OStatic's sister site WebWorkerDaily.com, and other sources, on these enhancements. Try them--you definitely won't regret it.