Daily Discoveries: 30+ Must-Have Firefox Add-Ons, PlacesBar Editor, Splashup, Linux Mint, Portable Start Menu

Mashable has a great review of 30 some-odd Firefox 3 Add-Ons at your perusal. While I certainly don’t use all of them, there are a few there I hadn’t discovered before.

Download Squad has a piece covering the Melloware PlacesBar Editor. From the site: “Ever since Windows 2000, Microsoft has included 5 handy buttons on the left hand side of most open and close dialogs in Windows. PlacesBar Editor lets you customize those folders. Just launch the open source utility and choose the folders you'd like to use. If you never store anything in your My Documents folder, for example, why not replace that button with one that says Temp or Download?” Very nifty. (Image courtesy Download Squad)

Splashup is a webapp for image editing with real similarities to Paint.NET. It also integrates with Flickr and Picasa Web Albums. I wish this site had a Firefox Add-on like Picnik does.

Download Squad praises the new release of Linux Mint Elyssa. The new Linux OS is based on Ubuntu Hardy Heron but has its advantages over its open-source cousin. From the post: “The most obvious improvement on its parent distro is the fact that it actually contains codecs and Flash support out of the box. The desktop layout is more similar to Windows, making this a good migration path for Microsoft refugees.”

I’ve used Linux Mint in the past and can’t say enough good things about it. If you’re curious to trying Linux, download the LiveCD here.

Portable Start Menu is a handy portable program that scans your USB key/Portable Hard Drive for .exe files and displays them in a Start-type menu. Download Squad covers it over here. (Image courtesy Download Squad)