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Plain Text Links adds the ability/option to open the link in a new tab, and uses a context menu entry instead of a double click:

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/textlink/

The only content filtering/editing that I have running(on top of popup blocking) is Flashblock.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/433/

I also have nuke anything enhanced:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/951/

and plain text links:

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/textlink/

installed, in addition to a bunch of bookmarklets:

http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/
http://1024k.de/bookmarklets/video-bookmarklets.ht ml

Flash is annoying, and I like to be able to edit what I am looking at in lots of ways, but I don't like the feeling I get of not seeing what is being presented when automatic filtering goes on. I experimented with privoxy at one point, had the same feeling, and also got sick of it breaking things. So yes, I mostly avoid ads by avoiding sites that run ads, and as a result, I see lots of ads.

I've never found a FF extension which added a genuinely useful feature that wasn't already in Opera, with the exception of GreaseMonkey, (which enjoys full support in the upcoming 9.0 release).

Then maybe you haven't looked at all.

• The Javascript Debugger - Where is the opera equivilent? Bloated? It adds one menu item in tools and an optional icon on the toolbar for easy access
• Web developer toolbarThis is something no web developer should be without. You can edit the css of the site you're viewing! You can resize the browser to common sizes to check it renders okay. Opera equivilent?

So you're not a web developer? How about things like FxIF which lets you view Exif data from digital camera shots off the web - find out the camera model used to take the photo as well as the settings.

Opera is lean, and it's fast and compared to IE, it just rocks. But featurewise, it doesn't come close to firefox and that can wholely be attributed to extensions.

I'm not sure if this is what you're talking about, but if you're looking for tab preview with Firefox:

Tab Preview

I'm not asking them to spend money advertising the fact that they're way behind the curve on browsers, just to stop lying to me.

'Innovation' is irrelevent and tiresome. What matters is the idea is out there. And hey, you know them thumbnail previews of tabs new to IE7? The ones no other browser has? Yeah. Well there is a copycat Firefox extension and a similar feature will available in Opera 9.

Flashblock does the same for Director objects too, which is neat.

I would also add fxif, the Firefox EXIF viewer from http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/fxif/ , and the Google Toolbar, of course, for PageRank and the spell checker.

You can get the tab preview feature in Firefox through the following extension: (compatible with FFox 1.5RC1)
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/tabpreview/ index.html

As for phishing, check out these extensions:
https://addons.mozilla.org/quicksearch.php?q=phish &section=A

IE has not innovated in a very long time while other have been trying hard to innovate to just get through the market leader-ship barrier that IE has put. It's going to be very challenging for the IE team to introduce any feature that would be outside the "catch-up" with other browser features. I'm glad to see that IE is going to introduce nifty features from all over the place, nonetheless.

Unfortunately, there is nothing like this for anything but Firefox, but Nuke Anything works wonders in cases like this. You can get rid of floating ads, too. (And quickly clean up pages for printing. Why waste ink on ads?)

Links to said Mozilla/Firefox extensions:

AdBlock Plus
BugMeNot
CustomizeGoogle
DictionarySearch
Farkit
Gmail Notifier
Nuke Anything
Plain Text Links
Switch Proxy Tool
Greasemonkey

Links to said Mozilla/Firefox extensions:

AdBlock Plus
BugMeNot
CustomizeGoogle
DictionarySearch
Farkit
Gmail Notifier
Nuke Anything
Plain Text Links
Switch Proxy Tool
Greasemonkey

drudgereport.com popups? Those are flash-based - if you don't want them, don't use flash.

OR, you can install a tiny little plugin called "flash block", aka "flash click to view". My favorite.

Wow, the more I read of your comment, the more your ignorance shows:

- The rewind and back buttons have been buggy since version five. I've filed numerous bug reports, but they have been summarily dismissed. (They often "skipped" over pages in past history, making them disappear without a trace. Very annoying when dealing with forms.)

- Numerous plugins block http referrers. My favorite is "tabbrowser extensions", but be aware the FF developers don't like it because it doesn't behave like a proper plugin.

- Built-in crap is the reason Netscape and Mozilla are my least favorite browsers (aside from IE, of course). This applies to both IRC and email clients.

- Nothing wrong with the stock download manager for FF. However, I prefer the "download statusbar" plugin.

- Cookies? Forget messing with menus: "paranoia" plugin adds a button to the interface for this.

- The FF interface (supposedly) can be customized to look like anything else. However, I couldn't care less about this, so have no references to respond with.

- Numerous plugins let you repoen closed tabs. Again, I use "tabbrowser extensions" for this.

- Numerous plugins save a history of your tabs so they can be restored in the event of a crash. Yet again, "tabbrowser extensions" has this feature - I don't even use it, tho.

- Firefox stores passwords. I can't stand the idea of stored passwords, no matter how trivial. Yet, it can.

What you got right:

- The F12 settings thing is nice.

- The search from the address bar thing. The only is listed as something you got right because it is rather difficult to get FF to STOP searching from the address bar! This is one "feature" I can't stand.

- User style sheets have their place - however, highlighting the text or using "nuke anything" has always solved contrast issues for me within FF.

- There is only one PDF issue I've found within FF: if the PDF is called from (commonly) a PHP script, so the data is loaded sans file extension, FF doesn't seem to know what to do. Other than that, slow response time is due to your system and Adobe's bloated Reader.

I could go on all day, but I'm already late for an appointment.

drudgereport.com popups? Those are flash-based - if you don't want them, don't use flash.

OR, you can install a tiny little plugin called "flash block", aka "flash click to view". My favorite.

Wow, the more I read of your comment, the more your ignorance shows:

- The rewind and back buttons have been buggy since version five. I've filed numerous bug reports, but they have been summarily dismissed. (They often "skipped" over pages in past history, making them disappear without a trace. Very annoying when dealing with forms.)

- Numerous plugins block http referrers. My favorite is "tabbrowser extensions", but be aware the FF developers don't like it because it doesn't behave like a proper plugin.

- Built-in crap is the reason Netscape and Mozilla are my least favorite browsers (aside from IE, of course). This applies to both IRC and email clients.

- Nothing wrong with the stock download manager for FF. However, I prefer the "download statusbar" plugin.

- Cookies? Forget messing with menus: "paranoia" plugin adds a button to the interface for this.

- The FF interface (supposedly) can be customized to look like anything else. However, I couldn't care less about this, so have no references to respond with.

- Numerous plugins let you repoen closed tabs. Again, I use "tabbrowser extensions" for this.

- Numerous plugins save a history of your tabs so they can be restored in the event of a crash. Yet again, "tabbrowser extensions" has this feature - I don't even use it, tho.

- Firefox stores passwords. I can't stand the idea of stored passwords, no matter how trivial. Yet, it can.

What you got right:

- The F12 settings thing is nice.

- The search from the address bar thing. The only is listed as something you got right because it is rather difficult to get FF to STOP searching from the address bar! This is one "feature" I can't stand.

- User style sheets have their place - however, highlighting the text or using "nuke anything" has always solved contrast issues for me within FF.

- There is only one PDF issue I've found within FF: if the PDF is called from (commonly) a PHP script, so the data is loaded sans file extension, FF doesn't seem to know what to do. Other than that, slow response time is due to your system and Adobe's bloated Reader.

I could go on all day, but I'm already late for an appointment.

Nuke Anything and other stuff. Geez, you could've just googled it.

are you really going to go elsewhere when finding an elsewhere could take some time.

Yes.

When I see these "floaters" and really have to stick around, I normally use the Nuke Anything extension to get rid of them... since I won't revisit the site, it's a waste of time blacklisting them.

Nuke anything (second link down for the XPI) also comes in handy for those times when you couldn't be arsed to turn off javascript, but some jackass has plastered a big, annoying floating javascript ad over the page you want to read.

One right-click > remove this object later, and you're good to go.

A couple more from Ted's Mozilla Page

Plain Text Links gives you the ability to select a url, right click and go to it. Needed for those lazy slashdot posters. It'll remove spaces from URLs as well, a very nice Slashdot-friendly feature.

Of course, for those who print, the following is essential. Nuke Anything removes practically any element of a web page (images, styles, tables, etc) from the DOM, and Firefox will re-render the page without it. Great when printing out articles since you can remove the ads, annoying left and right columns, headers, etc before printing. A simple refresh will bring them all back.

A couple more from Ted's Mozilla Page

Plain Text Links gives you the ability to select a url, right click and go to it. Needed for those lazy slashdot posters. It'll remove spaces from URLs as well, a very nice Slashdot-friendly feature.

Of course, for those who print, the following is essential. Nuke Anything removes practically any element of a web page (images, styles, tables, etc) from the DOM, and Firefox will re-render the page without it. Great when printing out articles since you can remove the ads, annoying left and right columns, headers, etc before printing. A simple refresh will bring them all back.

A couple more from Ted's Mozilla Page

Plain Text Links gives you the ability to select a url, right click and go to it. Needed for those lazy slashdot posters. It'll remove spaces from URLs as well, a very nice Slashdot-friendly feature.

Of course, for those who print, the following is essential. Nuke Anything removes practically any element of a web page (images, styles, tables, etc) from the DOM, and Firefox will re-render the page without it. Great when printing out articles since you can remove the ads, annoying left and right columns, headers, etc before printing. A simple refresh will bring them all back.

I thought this was neat, so I wrote a quick Firefox extension to show the current Google Maps location in Keyhole. Only works on Windows, obviously, and of course you need Keyhole installed, but the free trial works.

Google Maps to Keyhole 0.1

It's not perfect, since it doesn't take zoom level into account, but it works.

You will want Ted's Extension Developer extension if you're going to develop Mozilla (including Firefox/Thunderbird) extensions. Incredibly useful.

I use Nuke Anything and Flashblock to deal with annoying ads.

I think that most ads are nice to have, simply because they lend color or something more to look at in a webpage, and, of course, because they benefit the site I am patronizing. Sometimes, they even make you laugh. I've stopped using AdBlock because a lot of pages just look boring after its treatment. I can use Nuke Anything to remove anything I don't want to see in a page, and Flashblock to prevent those annoying flash ads from rendering, so I can nuke them as well.

Like many Slashdotters, I'm sure, I resent the feeling of being limited. With these extensions, I am given the choice to get everything, then pick out what I don't want.

Nuke Anything is a favorite of mine. Right click an image, table, or even a frame, select "Remove this object" and it's zapped from the page layout. Quite useful for removing images or overly large margins.

If animated images bother you that much, you should try the Nuke Image Firefox extension.

Very useful for dealing with slashdot posters such as yourself! ;-)

Also by the same author is the really cool nuke anything plugin. It allows you to remove any HTML element from the currently rendered page.

It's been updated.

Flash click-to-view and the nuke anything plugins are your savior.

Recent versions of click to view work nearly flawlessly.

Nuke anything can remove anything from your screen that bothers you -- great for ads that are served from the same server as informational images.

Go here and get "click to view" and "nuke anything".

You'll be glad you did.

Tried this out. No pop-ups came through.

Of course, I am running Linux + Mozilla + Tabbrowser extensions. Also have flash blocked with the "click to play" add in.

tabbed browser extensions

Flash click to view

Shockwave doesn't seem to have a problem getting the flash player installed on damn near every computer all on their own.

The only reason I have Flash installed on my computer is because the latest Firefox builds have a very handy Flash Click To View extension (Thanks Ted!) allowing me to choose when flash will run! Before that, if a web site had a flash intro page without a "Skip Intro" link, or a menu system that required Flash, my fingers just browsed on over to someone else's site.

Just wish Mozilla made it easy to disable flash too.

What you need is Flash Click to View ...

But wait there's more, Adblock also blocks flash and even puts a little tab around the flash frame so you can block them more easily. That way you won't even see the white "click to play" frame in place of the flash at all.

Now for an unlimited time only try them for 30 days risk-free and if you like them, just send 3 easy payments of nothing to nobody.

Indeed. I've been using the Flash-click-to-play plugin for a couple months now. Incredibly useful. It can be found here:

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/. Also useful is the "Nuke anything" plugin, which lets you vaporize annoying images, get rid of entire table cells, whatever. Great for getting rid of irritating banner ads (on pages that you are going to be staring at for a while, for example).

try this instead!!
it worked for me :D
The link should install Flash Click-to-Play if you're using Mozilla or Firefox.

try the Flash Click-to-Play extension. (click link to install in Mozilla/Firefox) It's solved my Flash problem completely :) I'd still like to castrate the perpetrators of Flash adverts with a grapefruit spoon, but now I have to actively press a button to be assaulted by it. The interactivity brings its own form of frustration relief when I'm forced to use the Flash.

On topic: of all the things this world needs least, I'd have to say that Flash development tools of any kind, regardless of source, are topping the list. Flash stinks. Flash is greedy, obnoxious, and yet people persist in manufacturing entire Flash websites!
Seriously, if Laila Ali didn't use it, i wouldn't even have the shitty player installed.
This isn't a good development for Linux at all. Nobody wins except for Macromedia.

I have my own NYT login, and have never received spam because of them.

If you make your browser's cookies only last the session, then you should be opted out of all that tracking trash, too. Sure, it's a jump through a few hoops, but it works for me. I remain untracked, they get their ad revenue and demographic info.

*listens to some jungle*

*browses /.*

*browses linked site*

wtf, flash for the menus again

*clicks past Ted's flash blocker*

*navigates menu* *BLIP*BLIP*BLIP*

*rips off headphone*

FUCK OFF

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/

Alternate Stylesheet Switcher - restores the "Use Style" menu from Mozilla in Firefox

I'm not sure why it's not included. The RFCs don't state whether stylesheet switching should be handled by the browser or by the code, so perhaps it's still viewed as optional?

You need Flash click to view. Blocks all Flash by default, lets through the stuff you want to see.

Easily installable extension for firebird users here. I'm not sure if it works with mozilla, but it's worth a try.

No more of those ugly beasts for me, and I still get to see all legit flash sites.

Now if there were only a way to block certain Flash advertisements...

Agreed, and at the risk of Slashdotting a good guy's website, I'd highly recommend this flash blocker. I installed it a couple of weeks ago and now I don't have any more Flash ads. Its improved my web surfing immeasurably. The trouble with Flash ads is they (usually) have so much animation in them that they draw the attention from the text of the article I'm trying to read. Some sites are now so Flash-ad heavy they're unusuable. Flash Click-to-View is a wonderful tool that lets you view only the Flash content you want to see. Let's hope they incorporate it into the main Mozilla build soon.

That's easy, download Ted Mielczarek's Flash Click To View Plugin, it displays a button instead of the flash animation. If you click the button you see the flash animation.

There's also flash-click-to-view, which doesn't show you flash objects until you click on the big read square labeled "flash: click to view". Very handy for those of us who like to see some flash parody from time to time, but hate it when flash-based ads get shoved down out throaths.

"Flash blocker: http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/flashblock. xpi"

Moderators! Bring me some plus points!

www.hardocp.com:
Do you want to install Macromedia Flash?

No, fuck off annoying animated unblockable advertising crap.

[etc.]

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/flashblock. xpi

What really annoyed me at the Forbes site was the talking advertisement. I mean, blinky adds aren't annoying enough?

If you're using Mozilla, get Flashblock.

(Of course, another solution would be to not have Flash installed...)

Hahaha, you actually install Flash?

At least have the decency to grab Flash click-to-play, if you're going to install that sloppily-coded, highly-intrusive ad-enabler.

Jouster

Tested by me in Firebird v0.7rc and it works like a charm. Great extension!

Should work with no problems in Mozilla too.

There is an extension to mozilla where it replaces all the flash in a page so you can choose if you want to start it or not.

http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/flashblock. xpi

well, mozilla has a very cool extention called Flash Click To View That replaces all flash animations with a white box. If it is content you want to see, then a simple click will start loading the movie. I love it, I can watch all the flash movies I want, without the annoying, seizure causing ads.