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I know all too well what you're describing. Quite a bit of relief is found in the following Firefox extension:

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

This extension replaces flash movies/objects with a button you can click to view them. You can also whitelist certain websites (e.g. YouTube) to always show the flash movie directly.

I do have to note though that when trying to whitelist a website I am viewing at that very moment, the extension does crash my browser every now and then. It might be something on my machine though! Anyway, with FireFox being able to restore sessions now, I find it a 'must have' extension to block out those CPU-consuming flash movies. I truly hate them

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ will solve that problem. It makes sites much more enjoyable and quicker to load.

Definately a must if you use Firefox.

[Am I the only one] who immediately opened a new tab and brought up yahoo.com to see a cluttered page (although less so than it used to be) and a Flash advertisement and sat there scratching my head with a "Huh?" look on my face?

I thought it was FentonOpenRyanKabuke, as in F.O.R.K. lollers
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That would be nice. What I do is use PrefBar (for Mozilla's Web browsers) and have a button in its toolbar to enable/disable Java. I *RARELY* use Java so most of the times, it is off.

In all fairness to both you and UbuntuForums.org, that may be because of the unusual structure of the built-in search function: it will only search on the current subforum by default. Using a Google query with site:ubuntuforums.org or with the Firefox search engine plugin/extension for UF by Luca Gasperini helps a great deal.

I am curious how this would affect the MMOG I play, Guild Wars. they give out random gifts for each year of character existence, as well as rewards for completing tasks in-game. Would these be taxable items, if they ever exceeded the $25,000 threshold? What is the limit for personal transactions between individuals before the income becomes taxable? $500? $800?
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So, in Windows you can have the same set of code for printing as you do for display rendering. I think that's pretty nifty.

http://refspoof.mozdev.org/

No bookmarks/history then and no way to install extensions? By the way, try these bookmarks (sandboxed for now.) This is a bookmark extension, obviously will not be an option in FF lite... at least not until version 2 ;)

Tried this?
http://ietab.mozdev.org/

Nowadays I'm surprised how many tracking gadgets are embedded on otherwise ordinary looking pages and I'm sure to clean out my macromedia shared object folder form time to time...

The nice thing about flashblock is the ease with which I can play flash games and watch youtube videos -- when I'm in the mood to click through. Personally, I think something like this should be standard ... not a plugin. Flash usually scares me.

I didn't try it out myself, but maybe something like vimperator could help? http://vimperator.mozdev.org/
It makes firefox behave like vim.

Really my wrist hurts as using mouse is obligation on my desktop, and that too for an average of 12 hours a day.

I know, i know CLI is there but CLI browsers are no match for GUI browsers sadly.

Please...

Try hit-a-hint. Works great, especially if you change the default keys to asdfqwer from the number keys.

You might want to check out conkeror, it's a Firefox extension that makes mouseless browsing a lot more practical. I used it for a while after my rodent decided to die.

Anyone who has been following this issue for the past six weeks knows good and well that the audacity of the elected officials to ignore, debase, and belittle their constituents created the massive ground swell of dissenting voters. To claim that the Nation ID idea caused the defeat of this bill is ludicrous. But if the blurb had commented on talk radio and conservatives, this wouldn't be Slashdot, now would it?

Conservative, liberal, and moderate voters all thought this was a poor idea - not some minor amendment to this stinking legislation.
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I agree with this statement as much as the grandparents.

Its no use trying to work on a project which you have no affinity for.

My first public jump into Open Source was helping to fix the Flashblock addin on firefox.
When flash 8 came out it stopped working, so I took the dive and started pottering about with the code.
After a few inital stumbles I found the right balance and was able to code up a solution to the problem within the existing framework. (My initial codefix was OTT and essentially rebuilt the entire thing, my sig is appropriate...)

Actually there are several AdBlock-like extensions available for Safari. I don't know that the extension structue is availabe on Windows, or that the extensions would work there anyway, but it's possible. I personally use Saft, there are also alternatives that don't cost $12. I haven't found anything that works like NoScript (or the extension I really want -- FoxyProxy) but ad-blocking at least is available.

And if you want PGP for HTTP, there is Enigform

There's plenty of options for this. Personally I use Enigmail with Mozilla Thunderbird, or GPG4Win Comes with a plugin for MS Outlook.

What about a Mozilla Firefox extension that provides you the ability to digitally sign HTTP requests, even those generated via AJAX calls?

about:config and about:opera have existed in Opera for ages.

• about:config has always existed in Firefox and Seamonkey
• It's opera:config in Opera.

I love how firefox/mozilla takes features that existed in Opera for years and try to hype them up as new "features" in firefox!

Another reason firefox is over-hyped and doesn't compare to Opera really.

• I need an equivalent to Google browser sync that can synchronize between browsers on Linux, Windows and OS X.
• Opera doesn't work with certain bank sites while Firefox (and even Konqueror) does
• I need something like flashblock, which I can even get in IE (through a registry setting) and Konqueror (built in).

There was an extension that kind of did that. I think it's dead now. I haven't tried it recently, so I don't know what the state of it is.

Do you read any books online? If the text is long, try using this extension.

Maybe something in Firefox one day that'll tell you that your bookmarking something again?

Ask and ye shall receive!

http://bookmarkdd.mozdev.org/

Or the Mozilla Addons page for it :

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/155 3

"But is that open standards browser now a corporate lock in? But, but... "do no evil"... we can trust google?"

What corporate lock-in? We've been providing built in search in Mozilla applications for the better part of a decade. We have always provided multiple search services and an easy mechanism for adding additional services (there are about 12,000 alternative search services here: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ )

You don't have to trust Google. You can decide whether or not you trust Mozilla to pick reasonable defaults based on what users want, or you can not trust Mozilla to pick reasonable defaults based on what users what.

It already exists. http://firekeeper.mozdev.org/

Ok, here is my Book Text Mark extension, it is used to mark a line where you are reading, so you can scroll to that line later or navigate to it through a supplied menu, you can even navigate to the page with a mark through the supplied menu. The mark itself can be dragged on the screen with the mouse pointer and the mark is not transparent, it will block a line of text. However I am going provide a choice in the next version to select different types of mark, I so making one that blocks 2 lines above and 2 lines below, while leaving 1 line that can be read in between should be doable. Would that help our 'primitive' brains to read better?

With Prefbar, you can keep Flash deactivated until you need it. I am not using Flashblock (although I will give it a try just because I hear about it a lot) but Adblock can also block Flash (I think it will block them along with all other ads).

There are hundreds of user-generated video hosting sites. Just today I was making this list on Wikipedia. My own longer list lists about 150 sites with video (mainly user generated) but there are probably a whole heap of others I've missed! And yes, there are Japanese competitors already out there: mainly Tudou.com and Ameba.jp. This will be no easy ride for Sony.

It's called Redirect Remover.

Doesn't anyone else use Quote Colors? You know, to fix the broken quote system? If it weren't for that extension, I'd still be using Thunderbird 1.0.8.

I don't use a lot - just the Auto Copy, Image Zoom and MR Tech Local Install extensions.

Auto Copy, so I can copy text to the clipboard just by highlighting it (no need to press Ctrl+C).

Image Zoom, so Thunderbird will reduce the size of images to fit the message view pane. Without it, you have to scroll around a lot for large images.

MR Tech Local Install so I can force extensions to ignore the maxversion setting in the .xpi file, if necessary. Useful for when you upgrade either Firefox or Thunderbird and your extensions suddenly stop working - you can force them to work. Or at least try to work. I had to use that to get Image Zoom working in Thunderbird 2.0, although I think it's not necessary any more with the most recent version of Image Copy.

http://autocopy.mozdev.org/
http://imagezoom.yellowgorilla.net/
http://www.mrtech.com/extensions/local_install/

- ozz

The only add-on I use is TagZilla, which adds a randomly selected tagline from a file to every email. I'm so attached to this that I won't upgrade to newer versions of Thunderbird until TagZilla supports them.

I have people ask me all the time how I get those randomly selected tags on my emails. Of course the answer starts with "First off, you have to be using Thunderbird..." :-)

Bless the heart of the David Perry for autorewrap. I detested having manually rewrap when replying in Thunderbird. This worked great under 1.5 but now no longer works with 2.0. Please update for 2.0 David!

Have you tried http://forumzilla.mozdev.org/ It works a lot better for me than the built-in RSS feed.

Firstly, doing a 'check for updates' in the old version (1.5 for OS X, I think) told me there wasn't a new one.

Then the real pain, viewing full headers is still totally broken.

So I still can't unsubscribe from a couple of (now spam dominated) Yahoo groups that I signed up to with throwaway names, as I have can't read the header to find out the throwaway name I used!

Thunderbird doesn't allow hotmail access per se, but there were plugins for previous versions that allowed you to access hotmail (and other webmails) through thunderbird: http://webmail.mozdev.org/

Isn't it just easier to use flashblock?

Multiple user accounts? thats way too much work there. What you can do instead is install flashblock for firefox or use opera's built in plug-in disabler (F12 menu> uncheck enable plugins).

Doesn't work. I use Mozilla suite as my browser (Firefox just has a slightly different "feel" that I never got to like). The site gives me the "You must use IE" message. So I change my User-Agent string to "IE 6.0 WinXP" through Mozilla PrefBar (an awesome tool for Mozilla or firefox users, basicly lets you change any config file variable direct through the toolbar). When I tried it changing my UA string, the site just didn't load.

I don't know what they use, but it does need IE. Probably ActiveX or some such.

I recommend the CookieCuller firefox plugin to control cookies:

http://cookieculler.mozdev.org/installation.html

CookieCuller gives you the option to remove all non-protected cookies when firefox restarts. You choose which cookies, if any, that deserve protection.

I configure CookieCuller as follows:

1. Tools->Add-ons->CookieCuller->Preferences and check: [x] Delete Unprotected Cookies on Startup
2. View->Toolbars->Customize and Drag the CookieCuller icon (A chocolate chip cookie) to the toolbar panel
3. Click on the CookieCuller icon, select any cookies you which to protect (if any) and click Protect Cookie

Even if a site requires you to accept their long life cookies, on restart CookieCuller will toss your cookies! :-)

http://adblock.mozdev.org/
*Intellitxt*

stupid URL-parsing... here: http://adblock.mozdev.org/

http://cookieculler.mozdev.org/

lets you "protect" certain cookies, and has a tool to delete all but your "protected" cookies. Works pretty well for me.

The video advert bit is a no-brainer - it is available (but harder to implement) in flash already. Some sites have tried it, and it sometimes works but mainly doesn't.

I'm more worried about the DRM - sites like keepvid and javimoya; plus my very own UnPlug allow you to download the FLV files. If FLVs get DRM, that's bad news for me. But I don't really get how they'll implement this.

Plus there are already ways to obfuscate the content - using the RTMP protocol to transfer videos will already get you a free pass from almost any FLV downloader, and more besides. So what's to gain?

I'm guessing it will be snapped up by myspace, who already do an awful lot to hide their music (you can put mp3 in the flv container), and everyone else will wait and see.

Flash Uninstaller for Windows
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/cur rent/uninstall_flash_player.exe

FlashBlock for FireFox
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/