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Tuesday, Mar 9, 2010

Take command of social networking and manage Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and more in one spot. See latest posts and update your status in a streaming sidebar that takes up a small part of your browser screen. Yoono is the #1 downloaded social networking add-on with over 3.8M downloads.

I’m excited to tell you about the first add-on that I fell in love with: Yoono! These days I’m hyper connected. I stay in touch with friends, family and coworkers through a vast array of social networking tools. But with email, IM, Facebook and Twitter all having unique Web sites, logging in and clicking around gets really time consuming.

So, I started exploring the Add-ons Gallery for a solution and discovered Yoono. It lets me stay in touch in one spot with a tidy, efficient sidebar–no more opening all of those sites. I can minimize or close Yoono to hide social noise, but when I want to see what’s going on, I open the Yoono sidebar, and voila! In a tiny space that’s easy to live with, I see everything I need to know about what my friends are up to. It reduces the hectic overload of multi-social-networking so that I can focus on more important and enjoyable activities, like planning my next Roman holiday!

Yoono sidebar open

Yoono sidebar open

Yoono sidebar minimized

Yoono sidebar minimized

My guess is that everyone uses some of the sites Yoono is connected to, so try it out and let me know what you think.

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Post from Julie Shin Choi, who loves to keep in touch with her geographically dispersed friends and family, and is also a member of the Firefox Add-ons team. See all posts by Julie Choi.

30 comments

Rusty Sullivan

Great addon. I have used both Yoono and Digsby, as well as Trillian, Pidgin, Miranda IM, and Meebo. I prefer Disgby, as it already has video capabilities, etc. but this is good stuff if text based stuff is all you need.

March 10th, 2010 at 12:17 pm

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Christos

Thanks for the suggestion, i’m really excited about Yoono, I’d have no idea if it wasn’t for this blog!!!

March 10th, 2010 at 12:25 pm

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cerita disini

its great like at Flock’s browser, sidebar for social networking.

March 10th, 2010 at 6:03 pm

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Joel

Will try yoono today. Would hav never known it’s there if would haven’t read it here. Looking forward to more amazing Add-Ons

March 10th, 2010 at 7:43 pm

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iamalsovijay

I’m a bog fan of Yoono. FB, Twitter, Ytalk and Gtalk all at one go by the side of Firefox window. They did have initial probelms but when I posted some comments on their help site, they immediately fixed the bug and contacted me back (so much for a free software!!). The best of course is that it lets me run it in my office where gtalk is officially blocked!

Highly recommended

March 10th, 2010 at 9:10 pm

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March 11th, 2010 at 12:47 am

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March 11th, 2010 at 1:06 am

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March 11th, 2010 at 1:38 am

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March 11th, 2010 at 6:27 am

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Comstrate

Very nice Addon. I love this sidebar for social networking.
I installed and it works fine.

March 11th, 2010 at 4:21 pm

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Mike

Don’t believe the marketing PR. Yes it works and it’s pretty cool. But I give it a big thumbs DOWN for altering my browser without asking permission. Among many ways Yoono quietly changes your browser is to make words all over the internet “Yoono clickable”. Now I read an online article and it’s annoyingly full of words that are underlined in colorful dotted lines and when I hover over I get a small pop-up asking me to “Search on Yoono”. Okay, I get it now, this is just a reincarnation of those annoying “everything’s an advertisement now” links that were wildly UNpopular several years ago. No thanks… and uninstall.

March 11th, 2010 at 6:08 pm

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1. reivax
  
  Mike, you can disable this feature in one click on the magnifier icon in the status bar of Firefox…
  
  March 16th, 2010 at 7:54 am
  
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tierheimblogger

I use Flock an I love the new add on to stay in touch with the social network. No other has this feature to preview the posted pics and videos. Slide over this stuff and see it in the browser at the same time without clicking to open a link. Please add twitpic and live profile.
Bestens geeignet um innerhalb des Browser mit den sozialen Netzwerken im Kontakt zu bleiben. Eingebundene Bilder werden per Mouse Over im Browser als Layer angezeigt, oder auf sich in die entsprechende Seite einzuloggen. Bitte noch twitpic und Live Profil hinzufügen.

March 12th, 2010 at 3:57 am

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1. choklo
  
  please take account that flock stores username and password locally, while, as i understood from the privacy policies, yoono stores them cozy and warm on their own server.
  
  It may be useful if you don’t remember your passwords and call your pages from different workstations but you have to trust a stranger!
  
  In this case, i personally prefer to give up some commodity
  
  April 4th, 2010 at 1:37 am
  
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March 14th, 2010 at 9:07 am

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Parin Sharma

It is just awesome this is the add-on I use the most and Firefox + Yoono Rock!!

March 15th, 2010 at 5:19 am

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March 19th, 2010 at 12:57 am

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D

Would be nice if it worked. Installed from the FF addon site and from yoono’s site and I see no icons in the sidebar.

March 31st, 2010 at 8:13 pm

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1. Risa
  
  Did you search for its icon by right clicking on the Navigation Toolbar -> Customize… ?
  
  April 17th, 2010 at 12:07 pm
  
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Modellbau

Yoono is the best social networking addon for Firefox. I love Yoono, makes so easy to network with Facebook and other social network services.

April 17th, 2010 at 3:45 am

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Risa

I love this add-on. It’s really useful. The only but biggest problem is that it takes too much RAM. Before I installed it, Firefox takes 60-80MB RAM (I’m using 25 other add-ons), after Yoono is installed, Firefox jumps to ~200MB and sometimes raise to 300-400MB O.o The Yoono desktop apps doesn’t have mail-checking feature so I don’t use it.

April 17th, 2010 at 12:05 pm

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kleila83

I installed Yoono a few weeks ago. I liked it very much but after some days the pop-up window didn’t come up. I thought maybe I did something wrong and I wasn’t able to fix it. So I uninstalled and installed it again. Now the same thing happened but I didn’t operate with anything this time. What’s wrong then?

April 26th, 2010 at 5:56 am

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AutistT

I did not know this website as i began my seach for useful addons. especially the sidebar for social servies is very nice. easy installation routine and works great.

May 2nd, 2010 at 7:12 am

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xpert4dent

Yoono is the best social networking addon for Firefox

June 28th, 2010 at 11:47 am

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July 21st, 2010 at 11:52 am

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siaosi laui

Yoono is the best , even though i doesn’t have a website yet .

July 22nd, 2010 at 4:22 pm

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Yogin

I have just installed it and i feel it is amazing! good work YOONO…

July 24th, 2010 at 1:40 am

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[TEA]

Yea I tried it and removed it. for all the reasons mentioned above:
* Resource hog
* Non-useful features
* doesn’t check emails
* Takes up way too much screen realestate
* Stores username and passwords on their servers…so basically you are giving them your login info

Scary

this was a while ago so I don’t know if things have changed, but I’m not inclined to try

July 28th, 2010 at 6:41 am

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Yogin

Yoono is really fantastic! as i had installed it on 24th now almost a week and now i can keep up wth all social networking successfully..thanks Mozilla team for Inventing Yoono for the layman to be in touch with many people at one time!

July 30th, 2010 at 1:18 pm

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Amanda David

This is the best! I love this app. I only have to go to FB to to reply to personal IM. I love that I can block those annoying app sharing requests. This is a simple, but customizable app. I highly recommend it!

August 25th, 2010 at 6:38 pm

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