I’ve been playing with Firefox a little more than usual of late and came across this interesting little extension called Ambient News from Atul Varma that aims to provide a non intrusive way to give you updates on sites you visit frequently. Each time you open a new tab in FF it gives you a view similar to above – all very calmly faded in.

I’m not sure if it’ll be something I’ll use a lot but I do like the serendipity of it as it uses FF’s Places subsystem to figure out where I have been a what I’ll likely be interested in.

Definitely worth a play.