Mozilla's Contacts in the Browser 0.2 adds major improvements

We recently told you about Mozilla's awesome new Contacts add-on, which gives you a universal address book that you can use browser-wide, on any website. Well, that was just version 0.1. Contacts in the Browser is improving rapidly, and version 0.2 adds a lot of new goodies, including importing contacts from LinkedIn and Plaxo, and a new contact search system.

Contacts looks to be integrating as many sites as possible: you can now search contacts on Yelp, Gravatar, Amazon and Flickr. With all these new sites involved, it's also cool that you can see where the info for each contact came from, whether it was your local address book or one of your online contact lists. It also uses Gmail's webfinger and Hcard support to provide a list of profile links for any contact who has a Gmail address.

A great next step would be for Contacts to be implemented by other browsers, or at least sync with your Firefox profiles on different machines -- maybe using Mozilla's Weave?

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