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I can see what you mean about the links to the coders individual sites (I had not noticed that before). The summary I submitted thanked & credited the coders involved, but that part seems to have been removed. However, there was nothing "carefully selected" about the links, I used PSP Updates because they're one of the larger sites covering the story/PSP scene in general, I don't have any affiliation with them, and if ads bother you so much.

And, furthermore, if you are a Web developer, why bother?

You can get , and you can even switch between the .

IETab is truly one of the most valuable extensions for Web developers that actually care what their pages look like in IE vs. Firefox, Makes it nice and easy to quickly compare and see where things break down.

And, furthermore, if you are a Web developer, why bother?

You can get , and you can even switch between the .

IETab is truly one of the most valuable extensions for Web developers that actually care what their pages look like in IE vs. Firefox, Makes it nice and easy to quickly compare and see where things break down.

Except, Adblock assumes an opt-out principle. For flash, I would want opt-in: 99.9% of all Flash is trash.

To help you surf the web without being spyed on I recommend installing Tor then installing FoxyProxy.
Tor takes care of the proxy encryption, and FoxyProxy lets you use all those proxies while you surf.
Invaluable for the privacy conscious, or rather anyone living in the 21st century.

Just as a side note... Can someone stick a fork or 20 into whomever invented the damn flash crap that they use for ads and stuff on the frickin CNN site? That damn flipping of pictures was making me insane and wanting to move on to other pages.

I think a better way to deal with flash is to use the FlashBlocker plugin for Firefox
All flash-based ads get replaced with a placeholder and a little play button, then you get to selectively enable the ones which you require - http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

This sort of junk is EXACTLY why I started using ad blocking. After getting hit 3 times by something like that. It was time to do something about it. 0 adware 0 spyware 0 viri in the last 18 months. My *windows* exp is actually nice. No crashes, no slowdowns. Its amazing.

Try this one to start with
http://www.schooner.com/~loverso/no-ads/
then combine it with (i put all the hosts into the pac file as a big hosts file is a bad idea and slow)
http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
plus
http://adblockplus.mozdev.org/
plus
http://www.pierceive.com/

plus staying up to date on all patches.

and you have a truely AWSOME experiance.
Surprisingly this actually works semi well as 'advertisers' are cheap. So they tend to use the same web sites over and over to feed the data. Never mind most of the advert servers are *SLOW*. If you look most of the time its waiting on those servers to finish rendering the page.

I use the pac thing because I still use IE quite a bit for different things. Plus it gets a lot of things the other one does not. I could update Adblockk plus to just do it all but this gives me IE blocking as well.

Do people still get them? I thought everyone had adblock installed.

Thanks for mentionning MozIAX (aka MozPhone). I'm its creator, and yes it has been publicly available for more than a year (on Windows and Linux, could easily be ported to OSX), and I used it myself in Mozilla before Firefox ever existed !
Why develop and use a Firefox extension for VoIP ?
  . cross platform
  . i18n
  . very easy install / uninstall
  . themes
  . use "tel:" URL to call from your intranet pages
  . natively display URL transmitted via IAX web based call center
MozIAX also does chat through IAX text capabilities.

Project page is: http://moziax.mozdev.org/. See you there !

Thanks,
Jean-Denis

perhaps firefox should include its own version of solitaire?

No, but it sounds like a great idea for an extension!

There's also an IAX client for Asterisk fans called MozIAX available here.

Been there, done that.

http://cardgames.mozdev.org/

- Kevin

Well, I for one would like to debate the merits of MHT. I'm sure that the Mozilla devs have more important things to worry about, though I don't make their priority lists for them.

And, for some irony, Mozilla apps are Open Source. Why don't you add it yourself? I'd argue that if anyone actually gave a shit about it, they'd code it in there themselves.

Oh wait, it looks like someone already did. MAF apparently is compatible with MHT and has its own format which is better. I'd suggest googling for things before freaking out. In fact, if it were so important to you, I would hope you would've already done that.

Someone did it as an extension for Firefox though: http://maf.mozdev.org/ Very very very few people use that so I can see why the Mozilla developers didn't bother putting effort into it.

I don't know. Oh hey- look at this! http://moztorrent.mozdev.org/

so adblock and a hosts file not working for you ?

i dont see any adverts at all

Ads!? Popups!?

My question is this:
Why the hell are there so many people on Slashdot that haven't heard of the incredible fruits of OSS?

Anyone looking for blog features in Firefox should take a look at the Performancing extension instead.

Though I personally prefer Deepest Sender. Supports more blog APIs, a pretty neat interface. Works great with LiveJournal and is probably best LJ client for Linux, but it doesn't work that well with Typo-based sites (I can post, but can't tag or categorise as I go).

Anyone know a Firefox extension blogging client that would also do proper previews for Textile, the markup that Typo supports? Almost all seem to be able to do bare HTML, but not Textile.

Well you can sort of do this with greasemonkey.

[Adblock]
*pagead*googlesyndication.com*
*fastcl ick.net*
*160x120*
*120x160*
*468x60*
*intelli t[e]?xt*
*/banners/*
http://ad0-9./
*casalemedi a*
*adbrite*
*phpAds*
*Adlet*
*bannerad*
*ads erv.cgi*
http://adt./
http://ads./
http://adsys ./
http://imageads./
http://banners./
*msads.ne t*
*/ads/*
*/adframe*
*/ads.js*
*omniture*
*o verture.com*
*falkag.net*
*tacoda.net*
*google- analytics*
*doubleclick.net*

Getting rid of all the plugins that you do not use will make it load very quickly indeed. Below I paste from http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/acroread.html

Adobe Reader 7.0 is much faster than Adobe Reader 6.0.x, so if you're using Windows 2000 or later, the first thing to try is upgrading to Adobe Reader 7.0.

Adobe Reader 6.0 can be dreadfully slow. You can speed it up by disabling unused Adobe Reader plugins. To do this, move all files and folders that are in the Adobe Reader plug_ins folder to the Adobe Reader optional folder, except for the following:

* eBook.api
* EWH32.api
* Search.api

It has been reported that without the additional plugins, Adobe Reader can start up in as little as 15% of the original startup time. If you need functionality provided by other plugins, simply copy them back from the optional folder to the plug_ins folder.

In addition, you can disable the splash screen and checking for updates in the Startup section of the Adobe Reader Preferences.

There's a bookmark sync extension already; I've been using it for months in fact.

Bookmark sync

You don't edit the source of websites to delete chunks you have no interest in.

http://rip.mozdev.org/

You don't delete chunks of the windows code that are irrelevant and unnecessary to you.

http://www.litepc.com/

You don't delete chunks of any program.

http://www.chmaas.handshake.de/delphi/freeware/xvi 32/xvi32.htm

For some novel open-source software to appear that handles this problem. Then it gets integrated into Thunderbird as an OPTION for a way to send mail. It should work seamlessly, and fall back to old-fashioned e-mail when necessary.

http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

Even the terrorists are using an adblocker already. I haven't seen a web banner in years...

Unfortunately, Avast Home edition for Windows does not offer a certain feature I consider extremely useful — a command-line scanner. I'd love to set up family members with Firefox and the Download Scan extension so that new downloads get checked automatically, but that's not an option with Avast Home.

The FF extensions I use are:

• NoScript (http://www.noscript.net/). I allow very few sites to run scripts, and the vast majority of sites work fine without JS. Even if JS is needed, it is easily enabled for good with noscript, or just for that browser session (and I use this feature more). Like flash and animated gifs, JS has been hijacked by marketters as a method to peddle their wares and they have spoilt it for everyone else. A fantastic side effect of running without JS is many sites use JS almost as a crude DRM.... There's some sites about that make you click an "I agree" button to download stuff, and often the EULA is in an HTML form textbox. The more stupid web devs protect the text of the EULA with JS to stop it being changed, even though text in boxes can be "readonly" just with HTML from 10 years ago.... then you agree to your new contract :)
• RefControl (http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/). A referer blocker. I block all referers as it's simply a way to provide less info to a website. A website doesn't need to know where I have come from, and what will they do with that knowledge if they have it? Probably nothing that can harm me, but it could be useful for targetted adverts. Very few sites need referers to work, and they are mostly pr0n and warez/crack sites that use referers to stop leaching. That reminds me, must whitelist fosi again :)
• Adblock. (http://adblock.mozdev.org/). Everyone will be familiar with this. I use filterset.g too, and also add agressive filters for sites that are blatently tracking/trending domains. For example, one filter I have is http*.google-analytics.com/* . I have seen one tracking domain serving web bugs (those 1x1 images) by https, so my filters these days allow for that too...
• Extended Cookie Manager. (http://xcm.defector.de/). I basically accept all cookies on a session basis, and then whitelist the sites that need permament cookies, or at least the sites I use that I trust not to track me (more than is necessary for the operation of the website), or that I don't want to have to log into every time.

  If anyone can answer this I'd be chuffed though: Can FF be made to automatically try to use HTTPS for all surfing? For example, you type in a URL and it'll try the HTTPS site, you click on a link on a website and the browser will go to the https if it exists?.

  As I said above I'm going to be setting up a tor node too on a spare machine, and will use this for searches and any communication with governmental sites, and sites where I may disclose personal info.

  I can, if I want to, renew my car tax online for example. The UK government has demonstrated it's obsession with data collection with the the ID cards etc., and sooner or later they will realise really how powerful datamining is. I don't feel they need to ever be given my name/address and IP. If they ever want to determine users from IPs (eg IndyMedia servers) they can get a fucking court order and get the ISP to hand over the info. Even that's horrific, but there's not much I can directly do about that, apart from a Tor node. An extension for FF to automatically use a proxy for certain domains would be cool.

  Of course common sense too protects your privacy. Always use fake details if registering for somewhere that doesn't need your details, and never use the same fake person at a bunch of sites, or even all the time. Make up names on the spot, or just munge keys. Some sites want valid info, or even check postal codes exist... We all know about 90210 for America, and the British postal code system can be abused too. I tend to use B1 1AA when a site wants a post code, or I'll go to their contact pages and find one there. Some sites are smart enough to not let

This should be easily possible with Greasemonkey http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/

You might want to try the FasterFox extension http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/, it does some of what you ask (it prefetches links and keeps the back and forward links in memory for example) although some people have warned me that some of what it does is considered bad ethics by webmasters, like prefetching or opening more threads than default.

I would welcome a lot of changes as well - but as a 'fix' which has saved me from having the hellish download box on my screen for many months now I would point you to the download statusbar extension:

http://downloadstatusbar.mozdev.org/

Swish and useful - I wish they would include something like it in the main code.

Well in fact that's not many "differents wheels", rather the contrary !

Vim 7.0 uses the OpenOffice.org dictionnaries (and OOo algos to take the power of them).
That's why we had 40 supported languages yet at the release.

And that's exactly what happened to FF 2: it took the well done work from OOo and based he speelcheck feature on that strong base (see http://dictionaries.mozdev.org/), again, that why he support yet 40 languages.

So the morality ?

I would like that reviewers put this common OOoDict heritage more in perspective, so people willing to contribute on a dictionnary could know where to start. There many more languages needed to be supported (so: any contribution will benefit at least OOo, vim 7 and firefox).
Amen.

I would personally like a friggin r-click option to print. I mean every other thing i use has a r-click option to print. Not just web browsers but regular applications have options to print or print preview. This is a pretty damn ignorant thing to do, this is supposed to be open source so that you can configure it "your way" and they refuse to add it. Bug 204519

What might be better though is an entire context menu options preferences page that allows you to select what options/dividers you want and where. They already have this for the bookmark toolbar folder and bookmarks in general. INASD (i'm not a Software Developer) so i wouldn't know the first thing about wrighting something like that, though i would if i could. I just think it would make a lot of people happier, hell they could even leave off the print option for a default install.

Well enough ranting, if your like me, they made an extension for printing from the r-click context menu here: Right Click Firefox Extension

Mozex is a great boon to Wikipedia editors. Load the entry in a real editor, then you'll have not only search but replace and other such nice features.

You know you've become a vim addict when you try to ESC Y p to copy and paste a line in a /. comment box.

Fortunately you can have your stinkin' html textarea AND vim too. Mozex adds a popup menu to Mozilla variants including Firefox and Seamonkey that 'sends' the text area to vim, and a :wq and revisit of the textarea updates same. Very neat. Never make another speeling mistake again ;-)

http://mozex.mozdev.org/

When can I get vim embedded into text fields in Firefox?

It should be pretty easy to do with a Greasemonkey script. You'd probably need to write it yourself, but it shouldn't be that hard.

I also thought it was pretty interesting that IE supports OpenSearch, an open standard to add search engines (unlike FF and Opera).

It's about time to put an user-transparent version of GPG (or symmetric encryption) in about every open source project, which uses communication or stores something. I'm already wondering, why it's not included in Thunderbird by default (I know, the provided GPG plugin is one of the best available for mail systems see http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ ).

Good programs would be:

- encrypted storage for torrent files (F*** off RIAA)
- Generate and upload GPG key when you install Thunderbird by default
- Encryption for VoIP (yeah, Skype has it and it pisses of the feds)
        http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/04/voip _encryption.html
        or zfone http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/zfone/index.html
- GPG encryption in HTTP traffic (no more snooping on forms)
- ...

I would like to take the opportunity provided by this nitpicking thread to request that the powers-that-be here at Slashdot kindly provide us with collapsible threads. That way, next time I see a preposition joke (and a good one too, GP) attacked by the grammar impaired, I can safely collapse the thread and relax, knowing I won't miss anything of any substance whatsoever.

one word for you: flashblock

If you are Firefoxing, check out the Greasemonkey script Embedded Media Linker. Might muck up some "precise" websites, but it's a ton more convenient than the "view source" method.

*Please* don't select a winner that breaks the slashdotter extension.

I haven't had a look at the code for the slashdotter, but I hope it's robust enough to deal with CSS changes like this contest suggests without breaking.

Unfortunately, robustness doesn't seem to be the general rule with Mozilla extensions, which seem to break with every upgrade or site change. Sometimes it seems as if half of the Greasemonkey scripts don't work any more because the pages they were designed to work with have changed.

The one the surprizes me the most is the Venkman JavaScript debugger. Usually developer tools are the first things that get ported to a new version of any platform because the developers are using it themselves, but for some reason, the Venkman debugger is frequently non functional on the latest version of Firefox.

Oh well. I'll keep my fingers crossed and hope this contest doesn't break slashdotter or that the extension gets updated quickly afterwards.

P.S. I hope you can't tell that SpellBound is broken on my installation of FireFox.

• Integrates into Firefox browser
• Handles one-time and recurring events
• Stores data in open standard formats
• Can be configured to store data file on FTP or WebDAV site for sharing and remote backup.
• Does Reminders (Events) and ToDos
• Is FREE and Open Source

Automatic reload is available for firefox

Gee, I wonder where they got that idea?

So basically it's going to make it more difficult to see obnoxious flash ads take over websites as soon as a page is loaded. And in the rare chance you actually want to see a flash or java object, you have to click a button. Sounds like MS should toss this on the feature list.

Because one ad-blocker ISNT enough. See the devel page for adblock. The stuff in development (and not totally refined - I've tried it) is what flashblock handles with ease. When the next generation of adblock is released, I'll be more than happy to use it exclusively. But until then, I'll use both side by side.

I'm sorry, but ANY list of "good extensions" which doesn't include EASYGESTURES is simply some nerd's favourites - and not an ACTUAL list of good extensions.

EASYGESTURES is the greatest aid to navigating the web since the invention of the hyperlink. There simply is no substitute for opening multiple tabs in the background: it improves the speed and amount of information available to you, in a way which does not cause any waiting.

Every single person I have taught to use Easygestures (and this includes 8-year olds to an 88-year old!) admits that it is "the best thing anyone ever taught me about the Internet".

So what are you waiting for? http://easygestures.mozdev.org/