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NoScript - "but it will be out later today!" only works for so long

Right, it works until it's released later this week.

DownThemAll

The WebExtensions version of DownThemAll is in development. Had Nils done that earlier instead of throwing a temper tantrum a year ago, you'd have DownThemAll by now.

NoScript - "but it will be out later today!" only works for so long

Right, it works until it's released later this week.

DownThemAll

The WebExtensions version of DownThemAll is in development. Had Nils done that earlier instead of throwing a temper tantrum a year ago, you'd have DownThemAll by now.

you forgot down them all, which will not see life in the new more-restrictive webextensions environment.

DownThemAll is a must have add-on to me, and it's not available for Chrome (since long time, now): it was the primary cause that made me stick with Firefox over Chrome :P

In August Mozilla announced they are going to deprecate XUL-based extensions, which hurts popular extensions such as DownThemAll. In fact the DTA dev has posted an insightful comment in his blog regarding this decision:
http://www.downthemall.net/the-likely-end-of-downthemall/

Since Firefox has started their crazy version numbering, I've given up on upgrading. I use 27 different addons and perfectly configured to make my web browser do what I want. It is near impossible to do an upgrade without spending hours reconfiguring the addons, some of which need to be manually downloaded and have their "MaxVersion" incremented so they will install. Maybe in 6 more months when we reach Firefox 50 I'll give it a try, but until then. Firefox 8 all the way!

Application: Firefox 8.0 (20111104165243)
Total number of items: 27

- Active Stop Button 1.4.10
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/active-stop-button/
- Adblock Plus 1.3.10
http://adblockplus.org/en/
- BetterPrivacy 1.68
http://nc.ddns.us/extensions.html
- ColorfulTabs 7.1
http://www.binaryturf.com/free-software/colorfultabs-for-firefox/
- Cookie Monster 1.1.0
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/?src=api
- Copy Link Name 1.3.2
http://www.captaincaveman.nl/
- Download Statusbar 0.9.10
http://downloadstatusbarapp.com/
- DownloadHelper 4.9.14
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
- DownThemAll! 2.0.8
http://downthemall.net/
- Export Cookies 1.2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/?src=api
- Find Toolbar Tweaks 3.0.0
http://homepage3.nifty.com/georgei/extension/ftt_en.html
- Firebug 1.8.4
http://www.getfirebug.com/
- Greasemonkey 0.9.13
http://www.greasespot.net/
- HeaderControlRevived 1.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/headercontrolrevived/?src=api
- Hide Caption Titlebar Plus 2.4.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/13505/
- Menu Editor 1.2.7
http://menueditor.mozdev.org/
- Movable Firefox Button 1.4
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movable-firefox-button/
- NoScript 2.1.7
http://noscript.net/
- OptimizeGoogle 0.78.2
http://www.optimizegoogle.com/
- RequestPolicy 0.5.27
http://www.requestpolicy.com/
- Screen Capture Elite 2.0.0.23
http://www.grizzlyape.com/
- Searchbastard 1.5.5
http://searchbastard.rosell.dk/
- SkipScreen 0.6.1.2

A good review of the issue was documented on the website of yet a different extension: DownThemAll! - Can I trust NoScript any longer?

Basically, NoScript got upset that AdBlock made it possible to block ads on their site. (Note: by default, the NoScript site gets opened on every update.) So NoScript issued an update that crippled AdBlock's ability to block anything. This was discovered and NoScript, under pressure, changed to automatically add a forced white-list for their own site. Eventually, that was changed to allow opt-out, and then removed entirely. But the trust is still damaged; I haven't used NoScript since then.

not everyone needs a browser on their Linux (not everyone needs social network integration in their Firefox).

Not everyone needs browser tabs--like my parents, who to my knowledge don't know how to visit multiple sites simultaneously. When a large enough fraction of users benefit from a feature more than the feature hurts other users, it should probably be included.

Keep in mind that one of the reasons why Firefox is so great is that it has addons / plugins. It can be a lean download, and extended till your heart's content after the fact... There's no good reason to include a damn social network plugin by default, IMHO.

They don't include DownThemAll (download accelerator) by default, even though anyone who downloads files would benefit from that plugin's features -- Who doesn't want faster downloads?! Bandwidth is hardly an argument against acceleration -- you'll end up getting the same number of bits either way, and DTA has rate / connection limiting, so congestion isn't an issue.

The point is that given the amazing plugin support in FF, there's no real usability reason to include ANY social plugins by default.

I can see adding Tabbed browsing, or vertical tabs plugin, or multi-touch gestures, or some other core functionality features -- Like the identity management, But comparing social apps to tabs is ridiculous. If you want to argue for "social" integration, Why isn't an IRC / Instant messaging client built in? Guess--- Right, Because There's a plugin, no reason to add it by default, even though Chat is a core Internet feature, like e-mail -- Which they also don't include in Firefox... Mozilla took out the e-mail suite a long time ago to make FF snappier. How many people on the web DON'T use email?

Come on, use your brain. Of all the things to include they picked Facebook and Twitter... now, why do you suppose that is?

I am certain that the deciding factor was ad revenue partnerships, not better user interface or core feature integration. You can argue otherwise, but that doesn't make it any less obvious.

Screw that flash laden b/s.

Point your download accelerators at these links, and watch them in a proper video player.

Vint Cerf Keynote

X and the Future of Linux Graphics

(right click, save as...)

Chromium has limited support for addons. I installed Chromium, and went to look for my favorite addons. It was easy to find imitations, addons that borrowed the name of popular Firefox addons. However, going to DownloadThemAll's site brought me to: No Google Chrome support. The short article talks about Chrome's limitations. The gist of it can be shown in this quote: "While support for some types of extensions was added to Chrome just recently, the extension system in Chrome simply doesn’t cut it. It is only very limited in what you can do."

The end of the article links to Why Chrome has No NoScript. That short post goes on to link to forum posts and bug reports showing why basic addons can't work with Chrome.

Okay, I'll bite. Why is Firefox better for watching porn?

Addons, my man, addons.

AdBlock Plus - block ads, other random stuff if you want (like Slashdot's CSS)
NoScript - blocks nasty javascript unless you enable it so you don't get owned
DownThemAll! - download all linked videos/images from a page

http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/$SHOW/$YEAR/$MONTH/$DATE_$SHOW_$SEGMENTNUM.mp3

where $SHOW=(me|atc|day|fa|wesat|wesun|totn|tmm) e.g. for the interview in the story, which is the 8th segment of Dec 28's Weekend Edition Sunday:

http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/wesun/2008/12/20081228_wesun_08.mp3

Today's Morning Edition can be got by inserting the following into DownThemAll:

http://download.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/me/2008/12/20081229_me_[01:18].mp3

More information on finding out the URL to any particular segment available here.

Direct links to the metalinks (As Seen on /.) - these list all the mirrors, checksums, and other info and are used by download apps.

To use them, try DownThemAll! (Firefox extension), aria2 (cross platform, command line), KGet (in KDE4), Speed Download (OS X), GetRight (Windows), Retriever (cross platform, Java) or about 15 other download programs.

http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-amd64.metalink
http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.metalink
http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-amd64.metalink
http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-desktop-i386.metalink

DownThemAll! 0.9.9.7 - can download all files from page (both links and directly embeddeded) with settable filter, custom renaming and all other features you'd expect form download accelerator

Image Zoom 0.2.7 - zooming images (and only images) - i found it very needed for high-dpi displays, or where the OS-specific zoom-tool isn't enough.

MR Tech Local Install 5.3.2.3 - nice tool for managing extensions - can make any older extension compatible on one click (simple change of required firefox version), also can generate installed extension list like this one you're reading now, either in text, HTML or BBcode

Remove It Permanently 1.0.6.3 - more useful version of NukeIt - shows you what content is actually being removed in red outline, can remove parent widget of what you're hovering over, or 'all similar items', on per-page,per-domain,per-website basis;useful for pages heavily infested with ads

Tiny Menu 1.4.2 - the whole menu is compacted to one button 'Menu' which you can drag on your address toolbar (it's actually the other way round), saving needed screen space

Unread Tabs 0.3 - shows opened-but-yet-unread tabs with Italics

DownThemAll a popular Firefox download manager extension has basic support in development.

KGet for KDE4 (their download manager) also has just added initial support.

Both are free open source projects, so help out if you're able.

Opera's User JS is just equivalent to the particular Firefox Greasemonkey extension, not an extension system on its own. You can "only" add site specialized Javascript functionality with User JS, not change chrome, and so on up to providing complete application extensions like DownThemAll.