Name: FoxyTunes
Version: 1.0
Site: http://www.iosart.com/foxytunes/firefox/
What it does: Integrates media player controls into the browser
Reviewer: Barbara Krasnoff

FoxyTunes provides easy access to your media player. (Click on image to expand.)

I've never been able to work without some sort of audio accompaniment -- usually, news in the morning and music in the afternoon. Until recently, that meant having Windows Media Player's minimized player sitting in my Taskbar, taking up space. FoxyTunes has changed all that.

FoxyTunes sits in Foxfire's status bar or on one of the toolbars, and lets you control your media player (including Media Player, iTunes, Winamp, Real Player, and several others) without leaving the browser. I've placed mine on my A9 Toolbar, and it makes my audio life a lot easier. While I work (or surf), I can choose a file, monitor the name of the song I'm listening to, adjust the volume, hit the mute, or skip to the next track, among other things.

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The best aspects of FoxyTunes are its simplicity and flexibility. It doesn't replace your media player -- it just makes the player easier to use. You get to choose where the applet sits and which controls you want visible. And if there's something you need to do that isn't included in FoxyTunes' controls, a single click will bring your media player up -- or hide it again.

Altogether, FoxyTunes is a very nice Foxfire add-on for those of us who avoid the sounds of silence.