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Get Firefox 4 & Google Chrome-style App Tabs in Firefox 3.6

Screenshot: App Tabs in Firefox 3.6

Google Chrome and Firefox 4 have a neat feature called "App tabs" (or "Pin tab") that protect a tab from being closed and reduce its width to show just a site's favicon. With a couple of Firefox add-ons, you can get this functionality in Firefox 3.6.

Exclude specific news sites from Google News search alert

Web-savvy journalists use Google News alerts and/or RSS feeds to scour the Web for news. Here's a quick tip for refining the results.