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http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

*whack*

yes lots of extensions but i still miss one - google toolbar

This should be enough, then...

- real full screen mode, everything can easily turned on/off (even the scroll bar and address bar.. I don't use anything else).

Currently, pressing F11 in Firefox turns off everything except the scroll bar and the tab bar.

user mode is also nice (I like white on black) but it's not so important as the firt two/three

This is implemented - your user stylesheet is userContent.css, located in your profile directory. If you install URIid, you can even have different user style rules for different sites (eg. you could remove the bottom OSDN navbar in Slashdot).

Check out my page of Firefox extensions & customizations for tips on userContent.css etc.

Two newsletters: Mozilla Links Newsletter for general users and Mozilla Developer Links for developers.

Has an awesome popup blocker ... Not one POP Up gas gotten through.. Yet.

This annoyed me too. But then I found Cookie Culler, an extension.

Also, my favorite: Smoothwheel.

It's a very nice sidebar. You can find it here. Basically, you bookmark your rss feeds in a specific folder, and Sage reads from that folder. I don't know if it can "discover" new feeds or not. (my guess is no, but i'll probably be corrected here if need be)

For Windows XP, Sharpreader is a good free aggregator. It can get slow if you have hundreds of feeds.

Liferea has a clean gnome2 interface and supports atom.. I like it.

I also use Forumzilla from Thunderbird. Opera supports rss directly in its mail client.

Submitted by: clav on Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:23:34 -0400
I'm working on v0.8 of the Link Toolbar, which will support Firefox 0.9. It will probably be available within a week.

LinkIt enhances the Link Toolbar extension [pre 0.7] for Firefox

Submitted by: clav on Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:23:34 -0400
I'm working on v0.8 of the Link Toolbar, which will support Firefox 0.9. It will probably be available within a week.

LinkIt enhances the Link Toolbar extension [pre 0.7] for Firefox

As neat as machine learning would be, I think Firefox is just about the perfect browser now. It is precisely Firefox's small footprint and do-one-thing-and-do-it-well approach that people love about it.

I'd like to see a newsfeed aggregator built into it, but I'm not going to ask because all I have to do is download Sage. I'd also like to see the Mozilla-based browsers move away from the bookmarks.html format to something XML-based, like XBEL, which Epiphany and Galeon use to great effect. I especially like Epiphany's categorisation of bookmarks, which allow one bookmark to live in two bookmark categories.

Those of you running firefox can download a search plugin for mailinator.com from mycroft, so you can check [whatever]@mailinator.com from your seach box.

Machine learning might be extremely useful in the development of plugins and extensions. Take Leech for example. It'll download all files with user-specified file extensions that are linked to on a given page. Some photo galleries (and no, I'm not just talking about pr0n here) don't link directly to JPEGs and the like, but instead link to a page that has the JPEG somewhere on it. I know that Photoshop CS does this, because I'm making a gallery of travel photos and it's annoying the hell out of me. With all of the different software packages used to put the galleries together (including CS), it would be a real pain to try and code for each and every implementation and version of a web gallery. If users could train it, or if it came pre-trained with only refinements necessary, that would be extremely useful. Machine learning could also be learned to train other extensions like AdBlock and the like.

Apple will be including a "Private Browsing" feature in Safari when Tiger comes out (not sure if Safari currently has that). For those that don't know what it is, you can tell Safari to not write anything to the history or the location bar for as long as the feature is turned on. If Firefox could be trained by the user to do this, and do it automatically (with a notification icon in the status bar similar to the junk mail icon in mozilla mail & thunderbird), that would be great.

Check out Googlebar.Mozdev.Org which is a Googlebar emulation thingie that some non-Google people are doing.

I don't think machine learning is needed for this problem.

FlashBlock. already does something like you suggested with a button allowing the content to loaded. It just replaces all Flash with a placeholder that you can click to load. The newest versions add a whitelist of sites to allow (e.g. Homestar). Since there are relatively few sites with a legitimate need for Flash, it works quite well in practice.

The page says "Sorry, no Firefox 0.9 installer yet.", but I've found it works fine for me with 0.9.x.

http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

The lack of features like mouse gestures are enough to keep me away from mozilla.

Both gestures and pie menus are available as add-ons.

Here you go-

http://googlebar.mozdev.org/

No autocomplete or phone home to Google capabilities, but everything else (and more) that the IE version has.

1. Have you tried the GoogleBar extension to Firefox?
2. Support for rearranging toolbars has been there since Phoenix. View -> Toolbars -> Customize... You can't move the GoogleBar around, but you can shove most of the other stuff onto the top two bars and drop the Bookmarks toolbar.

What you're forgetting is: it's not advertisers who put ads on the websites you view, it's content providers. They have to sell the advertisers on the idea that some number of people are viewing their ads; without controls such as these, the prices the content providers are paid will decline, and their profit/ability to pay the bandwidth bills will decline similarly. Your best option is to STOP VISITING SITES that have obtrusive/annoying ads-- I fear the internet, or what's left of it after you pass it through this filter, will be dreadfully boring. Of course, once SP2 becomes mainstream and some critical x% of the market has these popup-blocking capabilities on by default, the advertisers will stop paying for popup space anyway, and banners will start occupying more of the body of the content, or "follow-through" pages subjecting you to full-screen ads. Unless you use any of the many decent adblockers (Agnitum Outpost firewall comes with a well-configured one, plus AdBlock is available for the mozilla browsers.), in which case you can sometimes bypass all the annoying ads without realizing they even existed. You'll be safe as long as microsoft doesn't implement one in their own browser, which they're unlikely to do, since it'll still be a fraction of a fraction of people who use these tools (this is true for anything that requires active knowledge and action on the part of the user).

"Looks like the wired article has copy-pasted and not done any real work."

Sounds like most Slashdot posters.

Anyway this, and this do me nicely.

Middle click a form submit button to submit the form and get the response page in a new tab/window, without losing the current window. That would be perfect for slashdot's front-page poll.

Enable Javascript (or Java or Flash) on a per-domain (or even per-URL) basis.

Multizilla does this. You right click on any tab and at the bottom there is reopen closed tabs, or you can hit CTRL+Z.

Mouse Guestures take a while to get used too, but I even use them on a touch pad because they are so cool. And it really funny watching someone demo on that pad who is getting nervous because they just opened some windows for no reason, then their hand starts to shake :)

Mouse Guestures take a while to get used too, but I even use them on a touch pad because they are so cool. And it really funny watching someone demo on that pad who is getting nervous because they just opened some windows for no reason, then their hand starts to shake :)

I used to think the same, until I tried RadialContext,
which is basically adding a menu to those gestures (so you can still do the more obscure ones). See previous thread.

Is something like Safari's or Google's AutoFill form feature.

I prefer to just block images by right clicking them, and kill off flash with flashblock.mozdev.org. That, coupled with no popups makes surfing fun.

I've tried finding a google toolbar alternative for Firefox... it's the only feature of IE that I actually miss. The default searchbar is cool, but I use the highlight button to find the keywords... and it's missing.

I tried this, Googlebar, but I didn't like the lag it produced when I used it. After I installed it yesterday, it made my browser unresponsive when I highlighted... which just doesn't work for me.

Can anyone suggest an alternative? I'm really just interested in the highlight feature, as I used to use it all the time.

TBE is now available for 0.9.1.

I'm using it on Moz 1.7 with no problems.

Find it at Extension Room or TBE home page.

I don't use Adblock because I'm perfectly content to let the ads be there, as long as they're not too intrusive. It's my minimal way of paying for sites (like Slashdot) that use advertising to support a service I really like.

Mind you, I don't have Flash loaded, and I have moving gifs set to repeat only once (a spiffy extension called Things They Left Out). So the ads aren't nearly as intrusive as they might be.

I'd even click through an ad, if it were well done (I don't want to reward obnoxious ads) and it were something I was looking for. Google ads sometimes fall into that category (especially since they're text-only).

I dunno if sites can detect users who aren't downloading the ads, but I suspect they can get a rough count by looking at their logs (and seeing how many page views don't match up with ad downloads). If that drives down the price of ads, which then drives the sites out of business, I'd be unhappy.

Mozilla 1.7 and current nightly builds of Firefox don't accept extensions from websites other than Mozilla's.

Anything else?

From the article:

Also check out the Reload Every
extension, which lets you right-click on a Web page to reload it
automatically every few seconds or minutes, as you choose. It's great
for those who are checking news, sports scores or stock prices.

Hmmm...I wonder what website that was created for.

Yeah, i meant Optimoz...

FlashBlock! That is the BEST plugin EVER created! Everybody who has Firefox installed should also have this plugin installed.

Bryan

Umm... RadialContext != mouse gestures. Kinda, sorta, I think. I'm just thinking of Mozgest, the sister project to RadialContext. That's the one with the in-browser mouse gestures. RadialContext is more of a replacement for the context menus.

Add that to tabbrowser extensions, to get the tabs reacting the way I want(i.e everything in the same browser window, middle mouse click on the tabbar opens an accidently closed tab). And you almost have my perfect browser.

Now if only Sage would accept OPML properly, with the option of organizing all the RSS feeds within a given folder into a newspaper like format(Sort of like how feedDemon works) I would be in heaven.

BTW, Camino does not install this automatically, but is relatively simple to go into your chrome folder and hack it yourself.

The ieview extension could be used for getting your web developer friends to code the web-pages for mozilla first and then check if it works ok with IE. (You just right-click the URL and choose "Open link target in IE".)
The web developers I know sadly just use IE and then ignores the other browsers.

I want to be able to see each window for a download so I know exactly when each finishes.

Perhaps you'd like this then?

PrefBar 2.3 RC2 - works with Firefox, and has many new features

PrefBar 2.3 RC2 - works with Firefox, and has many new features

From the prefbar site: (LOOK FURTHUR DOWN!)

PrefBar 2.3 RC2 - works with Firefox, and has many new features

My favortie Mozilla plug-in is Flash Click to view. It blocks all those annoying flash ads and puts an icon in its place. If you want to view the Flash ad/game/movie whatever, you just click the icon and it loads. It makes browsing the web just a little more bearable.

... is in my opinion Adblock. I really like the full regular expression support!

But of course she didn't mention that one, since it would be too efficient against Wired News' own ads. :-)

Disabling my Adblock showed ads on their page at least.

No mention of adblock conveniently since Wired lives or dies by ads. Also note that adblock has been removed from Mozilla Update also likely due to pressure from web devs concerned about loss of revenue.

...is Enigmail. A GPG/PGP plug-in for Mozilla. It integrates GnuPG commandline tools seamlessly into the browser. It's easiest to use encryption/signing tool I've seen so far.

PrefBar 2.3 works with Firefox: installer link