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Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves a placeholder on the page that allows you to click to view the Flash content.

You could of course grab the Firefox BugMeNot extension and skip the registration. :)

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In the interest of expanding the amount of free software you run, I'll try to address a few of your gripes. In short, some of your substantive gripes are addressed with extensions. All of the extensions I've found are free software, so one could modify them to suit one's needs. I think Firefox could use better session saving functionality (it's possible to save a bookmark for a tab which takes one to the website's front page, not to the search one was in the middle of doing when Firefox crashed or when one had to quit the Firefox session).

Being able to close all tabs and not close the browser. I hate accidentally closing the last tab in Firefox and having the browser close.

Point #6 of this extension's feature set seems to address this concern ("When the last tab is closed with Ctrl+W pressed or with Close Tab command, the main Firefox window can be kept, the tab is only made blank (as if Close Tab button is clicked).").

Ability to identify itself as another browser - really only helpful from some asinine IE-only pages.

I use Prefbar to do this, but I'm sure there are other extensions available to accomplish the same thing.

Configurability - I like the way in which Opera allows you to configure things.

Pop-ups. I like the way Opera does it better than Moz/Firefox.

These gripes are far too vague to address and will probably be viewed as unreasonable to mimic without identifying precisely what functionality is worth duplicating or improving upon.

Why did you move "Preferences" from under "Edit" to "Tools"? That is something that always bugged me about IE, now everyone does it. Arghh.

This seems picayune, but on Fedora Core 3, Firefox has Edit->Preferences. On issues like this, I favor consistency and both choices make sense to me, so I don't really care where the menu option is.

In the interest of expanding the amount of free software you run, I'll try to address a few of your gripes. In short, some of your substantive gripes are addressed with extensions. All of the extensions I've found are free software, so one could modify them to suit one's needs. I think Firefox could use better session saving functionality (it's possible to save a bookmark for a tab which takes one to the website's front page, not to the search one was in the middle of doing when Firefox crashed or when one had to quit the Firefox session).

Being able to close all tabs and not close the browser. I hate accidentally closing the last tab in Firefox and having the browser close.

Point #6 of this extension's feature set seems to address this concern ("When the last tab is closed with Ctrl+W pressed or with Close Tab command, the main Firefox window can be kept, the tab is only made blank (as if Close Tab button is clicked).").

Ability to identify itself as another browser - really only helpful from some asinine IE-only pages.

I use Prefbar to do this, but I'm sure there are other extensions available to accomplish the same thing.

Configurability - I like the way in which Opera allows you to configure things.

Pop-ups. I like the way Opera does it better than Moz/Firefox.

These gripes are far too vague to address and will probably be viewed as unreasonable to mimic without identifying precisely what functionality is worth duplicating or improving upon.

Why did you move "Preferences" from under "Edit" to "Tools"? That is something that always bugged me about IE, now everyone does it. Arghh.

This seems picayune, but on Fedora Core 3, Firefox has Edit->Preferences. On issues like this, I favor consistency and both choices make sense to me, so I don't really care where the menu option is.

Why would I want the tabbar to disappear just because there's only one page? I don't like the interface changing like that, it's a bit jarring.

This is irrelevant because when I close my last tab, I get my homepage in a new tab.

I don't know why it works [the right/this] way, but I do have an extension named miniT that performs some indispensable tab-related tricks.

Desktop Search is here to stay, no doubt about it. Google, Yahoo, MSN among others are pursuing this.

We must look at what's next: P2P+Desktop Search

Take a look at this.

Security will always be a problem. So let's put some intelligence into it to control who has acess!

There is an extension for Firefox called Session Saver which was hacked to allow for better session restoration, but it's still too buggy to rely on. e.g. If you crash while a popup window with no chrome is active, you'll have a screwed up UI on restart; have to go digging through configfiles to fix it.

The links provided are very slow... here are normal ones.

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The links provided are very slow... here are normal ones.

Scott Berkun
basic principles of web browser design
del.icio.us integration
unified tool
Open Text Summarizer

Popup blocking? Uh, Firefox has had that for _ages_. There are currently 175 extension to Firefox 1.0 covering everything from web development to bookmark sync, games, you name it. Who would install _any_ Firefox toolbar from some .com site? It is just probably some tracking code.

Here's another link: http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

That would depend on somebody fixing this first (since the code is way outdated and apparently was never working), plus possibly porting it to things other than Windows.

Unless you know of a different screen capturing method for Mozilla... (Which would be really useful!)

Call me confused, but if I download "Firebird" am I not getting a 1 y.o. version of a browser named now called "Firefox"?

Cause if I was not well versed in Browsers, and I caught this snipped and downloaded and started using this, could I be in for a whole load of trouble? I mean is this version old enought not to have certain vulnerabilities closed?

Firebird

There was a bug in Mozilla that caused very high (~99%) cpu usage when multiple tabs simultaneously used the flash plugin. While I can't say for sure that it's the same bug, I was having a similar problem with Firefox 1.0, although it didn't show up as often as with Mozilla.

Anyhow, the problem disappeared after I installed Flashblock. You might want to give it a try.

I am still having occasional lockups with the Acrobat6 pdf plugin, though. :-(

so what's everyone's favorite extensions? I like adblock, which provides a really effective way to block those annoying flash banners you see everywhere nowadays.

Although I personally am responsible for about 10 of those downloads - a claim that I'm sure that most slashdotters can share.

I really wish that the Extension Room was more carefully maintained though. As an example, I looked at the RSS extensions recently, and found that 2 out of 3 did not work. One was even version 0.0.1! With extensions that can't install, or even worse, cause problems, it really tarnishes the quality of the work that went into Firefox itself.

Adblock is simply the best extension. Get rid of flash ads etc. http://adblock.mozdev.org/

browser.cache.disk.enable

Setting that to false, I believe, will cause the disk cache to not be used. My university provides 5MB for the entire windows profile, of which 2.5MB is used by the registry (684k on my home machine; I dunno what they're doing on the lab machines).

The end result seems to be that, while browsing, I will get space warnings -- it seems to write files to the disk and delete on exit, maybe. Once I exit, I need to wait 30 seconds for it to clean up and everything will go over just fine.

browser.cache.disk.parent_directory -- "Directory in which to store cache files"

I think I may've changed this at one point in an effort to keep the application data space free. The problem there is that my university storage (40 MB) is completely full (it's compressed, even) with things I need (Moz Firebird -- 6.4MB, etc). So I believe I ended up removing that, but I'm pretty sure it would work too.

But, as you may've noticed, I have Moz Firebird (old) on there. The reason for this is I can't store _anything_ in registry (resets each time, as far as I can tell) and FireFox won't install without registry writing ability. I haven't tried the 1.0 release, however. Nor have I tried the zip version, which I've seen only on the FTP... hmm.

Beyond these two configuration keys, there's a mobile firefox, iirc, which can run simply off a flash drive; all settings must be stored in the app directory or something. That's something worth checking out, perhaps. Good luck with it all.

http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html

-DrkShadow

Then you should have a look at portable firefox: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/ or here http://portablefirefox.mozdev.org/ (within the next week)

Here's a great tool [plugin] to disable Pesky Flash on Firefox. It replaces the flash area with a white box with a button. If you really, really want to play the object, just click on it. Quality Product that eliminates distracting ads while still letting you play the movie if you really want to see it.

well... that's why you should really make a revocation certificate when you make your key.

that way, if you lose the secret key or the password for it, you can issue the revocation to let people know the key is no longer in use.

A good writeup of pgp and enigmail setup is available here:
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/gpgconf.html

They are working on per-site permissions for Javascript in the Multizilla extensions.

What I find comical about the responses to my post is how completely most of the nay-sayers missed the central thrust of the post, which was not "ALL JAVASCRIPT BAD", but " NEEDLESS Javascript bad" (it was even in the title of the post for cat's sake!) - as in, Javascript is a good tool and should be used WHERE APPROPRIATE, and not elsewhere, just as this post uses bold, italic, and all-caps where appropriate, but the whole stinking post isn't bold-italic-allcaps.

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.

Try the Mailredirect extension.

I know my extension will be updated in 6 hours, but update.mozilla.org will be at least a week to show the update. Until they automate that process, the update site is going to be behind by a bit. Most authors probably offer more recent versions of their extensions on their own web sites. (Grab PasteIP if you ever have occasion to paste your IP address or User-Agent into an email message.)

There doesn't seem to be a version of Enigmail that works with 1.0!!!

If you go to http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html, you'll see that at the top of the download table, version v0.89.5 is for Thunderbird 1.0. I've installed it and it seems to be working just fine...

The latest Flashblock has a whitelist feature.

Disclaimer: I haven't tried it yet.

Easiest - and I use that term reluctantly! - way to encrypt emails with Thunderbird is using enigmail. There's a fair few dependencies to be resolved, IIRC: GPG, and one or two others. Good luck!

They make a great team.

That's why I use FlashBlock - it gets rid of flash, but doesn't block anything else.

Useful if your power company's web devs are as clueless as Powergen's...

This project has been renamed to ForecastFox and has
moved to forecastfox.mozdev.org.

Follow these directions: http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/windows1.html

So far all it's managed to do is make Firefox use 100% CPU, and not much else. Let me know if you have better luck.

IE just crashes.

Except that now it's ForecastFox. Apparently there was some conflict with the website www.weatherfox.com (people going to weatherfox.com looking for WeatherFox extension support 'n stuff).

Don't miss out the wonderful WeatherFox extension for Firefox... crafteh coded this marvel after a suggestion of mine on Mozillazine Forums. International Forecast in your statusbar. Can't beat that!

Laptop - Linux (Primary Work)

Laptop - Win (Primary Play)

Desktop - Win (home)
Admittedly, I have to keep my extensions in sync, but to keep data, here's what I do:

For Thunderbird

• I use only IMAPS, and keep everything on my server
• I don't use the integrated Junk Mail controls. I did for a while, but got sick of having to start from scratch with every wipe of windows/every new install; nor do I use the filters in my mail client
• I do, instead, use procmail and spamassassin to accomplish similar results. Spamassassin "learns" from INBOX.Junk.confirmed, every night. Procmail filters my list subscriptions, and I use this tip to keep Thunderbird in line.

• I don't keep any bookmarks, locally, except my live bookmarks (which, again, admittedly, I need to set up on each instance).
• Instead, I use my del.icio.us account to manage these. I then subscribe to my account's RSS as a live bookmark, and dump that into my bookmarks toolbar. This may be helpful, if you'd like to do the same.

I've made a similar project called "Friedfox". This is for when you (1) don't want to carry your Firefox around all the time and (2) can download from the Internet fairly fast. It is a small Firefox installer that installs to a Windows user's profile rather than the system, so it doesn't require Administrator-level access. In addition, I've streamlined the installer so it's a total of two clicks to install it.

Since IE will let you "Open" programs from the web, you can instant-launch the installer by going to http://friedfox.mozdev.org/go.
You can check out my cheesy web site for it.

I plan to set up a separate Internet2 mirror for college students soon. I'll announce this on the mailing list within a week or two.

I've made a similar project called "Friedfox". This is for when you (1) don't want to carry your Firefox around all the time and (2) can download from the Internet fairly fast. It is a small Firefox installer that installs to a Windows user's profile rather than the system, so it doesn't require Administrator-level access. In addition, I've streamlined the installer so it's a total of two clicks to install it.

Since IE will let you "Open" programs from the web, you can instant-launch the installer by going to http://friedfox.mozdev.org/go.
You can check out my cheesy web site for it.

I plan to set up a separate Internet2 mirror for college students soon. I'll announce this on the mailing list within a week or two.

flat-rate advertising priced based on an estimated, not guaranteed, number of impressions expected

I estimate zero.

Additionally, you can use the mozex extension to handle these types of things, completely independent of the window manager.

I suggest thunderbird to my friends because of the ease that PGP integrates into it with the enigmail plugin.

Not many webmail sites offer good PGP support.

This? Not that I've ever used that before!

Seriously though, I'm scared..but I like your plugin idea.

Here's a link: http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/

There's already several. Here's one for firefox:

http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/

http://ieview.mozdev.org/ has a Firefox extension that lets you "Right-click -> Open in IE".

Firefox still has to be able to remember what sites were previously open when restarting. Dragging and dropping of tabs would also be nice.

Firefox still has to be able to remember what sites were previously open when restarting. Dragging and dropping of tabs would also be nice.

prefbar for moz/ff might let you spoof the UA to fool the application into letting you use it. try here: http://prefbar.mozdev.org

It's sad that web developers stoop to that though..

Try the Bugmenot extension for Firefox or Mozilla