Mozilla has released a new add-on called F1 for its popular Firefox browser that makes shaing Web content super easy.
F1 creates a button on the top-right of your browser. Click on that button, and up pops a prompt line on the top of your browser that that lets you share your page via your Gmail account, Facebook or Twitter. See video below for demo.
Users can install and start using the add-on beginning today
Share buttons have become a popular way for publishers to help visitors easily spread their content. However, users often have to hunt for share buttons like ShareThis on a publisher&'s page, and then have to provide login details.
The F1 experience is elegant. If Mozilla were to integrate this into Firefox as a default (rather than as an optional add-on), I could see this potentially become a proper standard for sharing. It is a user-friendly solution that other browsers (IE, Chrome, Safari, etc) could emulate, and if so, this could potentially lead to the demise of publisher-integrated share buttons.
The add-on only supports sharing via Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail in its initial release, but Mozilla said in its blog post announcing the feature that it plans to add additional services in time. Meanwhile, publishers can also experiment with the addon through the API provided on its wiki.
Embedded below is a video demo of F1 by developer Andy Chung.
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