Firefox is easily one of my most used applications, and remains constantly open throughout the day. However, for this reason I find it clutters the taskbar unnecessarily. For instance, my indexing service and RSS Bandit aggregator run constantly, yet they do so almost invisibly in the system tray area. Why not do the same with Firefox when not using it?
Apparently other users feel the same, and two fine fellows (“Mook” and Brad Peterson, notably) took it upon themselves to write an extension that minimizes not only Firefox, but also Thunderbird and SeaMonkey to the system tray. I installed it a few hours ago, and it works like a charm.
