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The only extensions that didn't make the jump were either abandoned, or those whose authors preferred to loudly complain and join sone "anti-WebExtensions resistance" instead of trying to work out a solution.

This is a blatant lie.

There are plenty of extensions that are still waiting on updates to the WebExtensions framework so that they can be ported over. There are dozens or hundreds of bugs in bugzilla with requests for this. Just a couple that come to mind are around session management (there are no decent session managers for Nu-Firefox, and Michael Kraft's excellent Session Manager which was maintained and worked perfectly for years was left in the ditch) and tab management (Tab Mix Plus is only "dead" because Mozilla killed it).

This is only two among many others. Instead of waiting a year or so for WebExtensions to catch up, Mozilla in their rush to make Firefox become Chrome as fast as possible, threw the baby out with the bathwater without regret. It's what happens when people who don't actually care about a project or users take control.

Stop shilling for them.

1. Adblock Latitude For Pale Moon browser only. Blocks display of ads. "Adblock Latitude is a direct fork of Adblock Plus made specifically for the Pale Moon browser."
2. BetterPrivacy Deletes Local Shared Objects, LSOs. LSOs are files placed on your computer by the Adobe Systems Flash plug-in. Use of Adobe Flash allows web sites to track you, permanently even though your browser is configured to delete the files known as "Cookies" after each re-starting of your operating system.
3. CanvasBiocker Prevents websites from using the Javascript <canvas> API to fingerprint them.
4. Classic Theme Restorer Quoting 3 paragraphs:
   
   "This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."
   
   "This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2).
   
   "There is no 'please port it' or 'please add support for it' this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement."
   
   
5. Cookies Manager+
6. Disconnect
7. Facebook Blocker Prevents Facebook from following you everywhere there are Facebook "Like" buttons.
8. Firebug "Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page..."
9. Ghostery DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't allow sufficient user control.
   USE THIS: ghostery-5.4.10-sm+an+fx.xpi Link: Version 5.4.10
   Ghostery sells data it collects. (Business Insider, Jun 18, 2013)
   Ghostery web site
10. MozArchiver For Pale Moon browser only. Like Mozilla Archive Format that is used with Firefox. Saves web pages.
11. Mozilla Archive Format For Firefox only. Saves web page

http://maf.mozdev.org/document...

v54 was still slow for me and I've been using the Developer version that had it enabled. I finally identified that e10s easn't enabled due to Mozilla's "Mozilla Archive Format" addon.
http://maf.mozdev.org/

As far as I know, this is the only browser-based plugin that supports the MAFF archive format. It hasn't been updated whereas other developers were required to update their addons. I'm not sure if this means that MAFF is dead or if its just an oversight. (I've tried reaching out via email & Twitter over the past couple of months, but there's been no response.)

Out of frustration regarding browser performance & non-communication, I finally switched to Chrome.

1. Classic Theme Restorer

   "This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."
   
   This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017 and Mozilla drops support for XUL / XPCOM / legacy add-ons. It should still work on Firefox 52 ESR until ESR moves to Firefox 59 ESR in 2018 (~Q2).
   
   There is no "please port it" or "please add support for it" this time, because the entire add-on eco system changes and the technology behind this kind of add-on gets dropped without replacement.

2. Cookies Manager+
3. Ghostery DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't allow sufficient user control.
   USE THIS: ghostery-5.4.10-sm+an+fx.xpi Link: Version 5.4.10
4. Mozilla Archive Format
5. NoScript
6. Nuke Anything Enhanced
7. Open link in...
8. Print Edit
9. Session Manager
10. Snap Links Plus DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't have as many features.
    USE THIS: snap_links_plus-2.4.3-sm+fx.xpi Link: Version 2.4.3
11. uBlock Origin
12. Video DownloadHelper

1. Classic Theme Restorer
2. Cookies Manager+
3. Ghostery DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't allow sufficient user control.
   USE THIS: ghostery-5.4.10-sm+an+fx.xpi Link: Version 5.4.10
4. Mozilla Archive Format
5. NoScript
6. Nuke Anything Enhanced
7. Open link in...
8. Print Edit
9. Session Manager
10. Snap Links Plus DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't have as many features.
    USE THIS: snap_links_plus-2.4.3-sm+fx.xpi Link: Version 2.4.3
11. uBlock Origin
12. Video DownloadHelper

1. Classic Theme Restorer
   "This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."
   https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/classicthemerestorer/addon-472577-latest.xpi?src=dp-btn-primary
2. Cookies Manager+
   https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/cookies-manager-plus/addon-92079-latest.xpi?src=dp-btn-primary
3. Ghostery DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't allow sufficient user control.
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/
   USE THIS: y-5.4.10-sm+an+fx.xpi Link: Version 5.4.10
4. Mozilla Archive Format
   http://maf.mozdev.org/
5. NoScript
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
6. Nuke Anything Enhanced
   https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/nuke-anything-enhanced/addon-951-latest.xpi?src=dp-btn-primary
   
7. Open link in...
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-link-in/
8. Print Edit
   https://addons.mozilla.org/fir...
9. Session Manager
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/
10. Snap Links Plus DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't have as many features.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
    USE THIS: snap_links_plus-2.4.3-sm+fx.xpi Link: Version 2.4.3
    Explanation:
    http://cpriest.github.io/SnapL...
11. uBlock Origin
    https://addons.mozilla.org/fir...
12. Video DownloadHelper
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/video-downloadhelper/addon-3006-latest.xpi?src=dp-btn-primary

1. Classic Theme Restorer
   "This add-on will stop working when Firefox 57 arrives in November 2017."
   https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/classicthemerestorer/addon-472577-latest.xpi?src=dp-btn-primary
2. Cookies Manager+
   https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/cookies-manager-plus/addon-92079-latest.xpi?src=dp-btn-primary
3. Ghostery DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't allow sufficient user control.
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/
   USE THIS: y-5.4.10-sm+an+fx.xpi Link: Version 5.4.10
4. Mozilla Archive Format
   http://maf.mozdev.org/
5. NoScript
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
6. Nuke Anything Enhanced
   https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/nuke-anything-enhanced/addon-951-latest.xpi?src=dp-btn-primary
   
7. Open link in...
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-link-in/
8. Print Edit
   https://addons.mozilla.org/fir...
9. Session Manager
   https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/
10. Snap Links Plus DON'T UPDATE. New versions don't have as many features.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
    USE THIS: snap_links_plus-2.4.3-sm+fx.xpi Link: Version 2.4.3
    Explanation:
    http://cpriest.github.io/SnapL...
11. uBlock Origin
    https://addons.mozilla.org/fir...
12. Video DownloadHelper
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/video-downloadhelper/addon-3006-latest.xpi?src=dp-btn-primary

The Flashblock extension apparently is not supported by Firefox v35. With the extension enabled, YouTube videos won't play. When the Flashblock extension is disabled, YouTube videos play immediately, without user permission. Is that a Firefox problem, or is Adobe checking for Flashblock and refusing to operate if the Flashblock extension is installed?

The problem is not with Flashblock. Flashblock works just fine with YouTube. I think you're running into an AdBlock Plus issue.

If you have trouble with YouTube on FF 35, then you need to go into AdBlock Plus, Filter preferences, Exception Rules, and add the following:

youtube.com###theater-background

The Flashblock extension apparently is not supported by Firefox v35. With the extension enabled, YouTube videos won't play. When the Flashblock extension is disabled, YouTube videos play immediately, without user permission. Is that a Firefox problem, or is Adobe checking for Flashblock and refusing to operate if the Flashblock extension is installed?

Adobe's Flash software is abusive to users, in my opinion. From the Better Privacy Firefox extension web page, re-written for clarity:
Some properties of Flash-cookies (LSOs):
1) They don't expire. They stay on each computer for an unlimited time.
2) By default they offer a storage of 100 KB. Normal cookies, 4 KB.
3) Browsers are not fully aware of LSO's, They often cannot be displayed or managed by browsers.
4) Using Adobe's Flash, companies store and access highly specific personal and technical information (system, user name, files, ...).
5) Flash sends the stored information to servers without the computer user's permission.
6) Some Flash applications are not visible to the user. Not all Flash applications display anything.
7) There is no easy way to tell which Flash-cookie sites are tracking you.
8) Shared folders allow cross-browser tracking, LSO's work in every flash-enabled application.
9) Adobe doesn't provide a user-friendly way to manage LSO's. Management is very cumbersome.
10) Many companies make extensive use of Flash-cookies.

Apparently Adobe develops software but doesn't check for flaws. There have been 24 new versions of Adobe's Flash software in one year, if I count correctly, since v11.9.900.170 in January of 2014. (The latest version is v16.0.0.257.) As the Slashdot story mentions, the flaws were found by other companies, not Adobe.

One purpose of the extremely frequent updating may be to push users to allow Adobe to do its silent updating, giving Adobe control over user's computers.

Now, apparently, Flash applications will not work unless the latest version of Flash is installed. That's apparently another way Adobe pushes users to allow Adobe to do silent updating, using the Windows operating system service Adobe calls ARM: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\armsvc.exe"

Apparently the former Adobe CEO, Bruce Chizen became tired of managing, because Adobe was, in my opinion, poorly managed for years before Mr. Chizen was replaced in 2007. Bruce Chizen is on Oracle's board of directors. Birds of a feather flock together?

The present Adobe CEO, Shantanu Narayen, is, in my opinion, a very poor manager. For example, an organization with which we are acquainted paid $2,000 to update to an Adobe CS6 suite. CS6 came with old versions of some Adobe programs, and an Adobe representative justified that practice.

It's not perfect but Multifox provides the ability to use seperate environments within Firefox. As an alternative you can manually create launchers for Firefox with the -P flag.

Since Firefox has started their crazy version numbering, I've given up on upgrading. I use 27 different addons and perfectly configured to make my web browser do what I want. It is near impossible to do an upgrade without spending hours reconfiguring the addons, some of which need to be manually downloaded and have their "MaxVersion" incremented so they will install. Maybe in 6 more months when we reach Firefox 50 I'll give it a try, but until then. Firefox 8 all the way!

Application: Firefox 8.0 (20111104165243)
Total number of items: 27

- Active Stop Button 1.4.10
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/active-stop-button/
- Adblock Plus 1.3.10
http://adblockplus.org/en/
- BetterPrivacy 1.68
http://nc.ddns.us/extensions.html
- ColorfulTabs 7.1
http://www.binaryturf.com/free-software/colorfultabs-for-firefox/
- Cookie Monster 1.1.0
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/?src=api
- Copy Link Name 1.3.2
http://www.captaincaveman.nl/
- Download Statusbar 0.9.10
http://downloadstatusbarapp.com/
- DownloadHelper 4.9.14
http://www.downloadhelper.net/
- DownThemAll! 2.0.8
http://downthemall.net/
- Export Cookies 1.2
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-cookies/?src=api
- Find Toolbar Tweaks 3.0.0
http://homepage3.nifty.com/georgei/extension/ftt_en.html
- Firebug 1.8.4
http://www.getfirebug.com/
- Greasemonkey 0.9.13
http://www.greasespot.net/
- HeaderControlRevived 1.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/headercontrolrevived/?src=api
- Hide Caption Titlebar Plus 2.4.1
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/13505/
- Menu Editor 1.2.7
http://menueditor.mozdev.org/
- Movable Firefox Button 1.4
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/movable-firefox-button/
- NoScript 2.1.7
http://noscript.net/
- OptimizeGoogle 0.78.2
http://www.optimizegoogle.com/
- RequestPolicy 0.5.27
http://www.requestpolicy.com/
- Screen Capture Elite 2.0.0.23
http://www.grizzlyape.com/
- Searchbastard 1.5.5
http://searchbastard.rosell.dk/
- SkipScreen 0.6.1.2

I formerly used Thunderbird + http://sieve.mozdev.org/.
Nowadays, I use mutt and haven't needed to edit my filters yet (mutt doesn't support sieve, regrettably).

My server is dovecot.

Here's a more complete list of clients that support sieve: http://sieve.info/clients, since thunderbird's plugin wasn't too good.

http://noscript.net/faq#qa1_3

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1586359&highlight=flashblock+noscript#1586359

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/faq.html#fbNojavascript

But anyway I think the real problem with noscript is the untrustworthy behavior of its author.

Are you talking about how they removed Google from the search bar in Firefox? You can add it back really easily by going to http://mycroft.mozdev.org/ There are a bunch of other great search engines you can add too.

I use it constantly on both linux and windows. Only time i use firefox is the rare case when something doesn't render properly in seamonkey.

Sometimes extensions will be nominally incompatible, but there may be workarounds, or you may just get a link to xpi file and it will just work. For example, this will make flashblock work with seamonkey:

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/

I also use:

• flashgot
• ABP
• https everywhere
• noscript

They work with no changes.

From what I have seen seamonkey has not benefitted so much from the newer JS improvements in firefox. This may be accountable for some overall performance loss, as much of the mozilla interface is dependent on JS i believe. But my info may be out of date as I'm running behind a few minor revisions.

The number one reason I use seamonkey is retaining the status bar. That's where some of my permanent extension icons live, so I need it.

Also, linux users see here to fix middle click behavior.

His username is just a shortening of his full name.

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Why, yes. Yes I do. At least for the few recipients that do too. And
all my messages are signed.
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Like every of the ~800 Debian developer in this world, I do use
encryption, and know how to handle PGP keys. My private key is encrypted
in a dm-crypt partition of 2 of my laptop, and I have a revoke
certificate handy burnt on a CD. My GPG fingerprint is also written on
my business card, so that everyone who I met can fetch my private key
from any of the major key servers, and check its fingerprint. My public
key is signed by about a dozen different people, mostly other Debian
developers, which is a strong "web of trust". If everyone was printing
his GPG key on a business card, I could also send encrypted emails, but
I've seen only other DDs doing it.
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If [Firefox] is set to Google it's a phenomenal PITA to switch--Bing isn't "built in" and you have to go to their "get more search engines" webpage, which has 17 "search providers" that noone cares about (and does not offer Bing). And to even get there you have to navigate through options under... wait, it's not in the options, you have to discover it under the small pull-down arrow at the left of the search field.

In all fairness, there is also a webpage for Firefox that provides a zillion search engines, but that is also an arcane secret you have to discover on your own.

And here it is.

MAFF is similar to what you're looking for (zip storage), but it's really only supported by Mozilla's browsers.
http://maf.mozdev.org/maff-file-format.html

And then there's Microsoft's original MHTML (MIME HTML) that uses a mime format like e-mail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MHTML

It looks like Safari on Macs have the Webarchive format, but they mention that most people just use PDFs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webarchive

ePub has some similarity as Thomas mentions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB

MailRedirect may do that for Thunderbird: http://mailredirect.mozdev.org/ and https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/mail-redirect/ though comments sound like it doesn't work with the recent Thunderbird build.

What trouble and expense? TLS (SSL is obsolete) is only expensive if you need to get your certificates signed by a commercial CA i.e. if you are interacting with random people who are not affiliated with you or your organization. If you are only deploying TLS for internal purposes, just maintain your own internal CA and deploy your internal signing key to all of your organization's systems.

Having your own CA raises the distribution problem, which is different or at least flaky for virtually every browser / OS combination, and you're still running on what may as well be a compromised system so TLS is irrelevant since the attacker can just root the system and grab keypresses.

The best solution short of buying laptops and putting epoxy in the ports is mastering a Knoppix CD. You can get a kiosk-style browser loaded with only your org's CA and a TLS client certificate. If you can distribute your own CA certs, you may as well also distribute client certs. You can disable storage drivers except for ramFS. You can block everything but 443 outgoing. You can verify your server before launching the browser.

You now have a simple procedure to force users to access your site properly. There is no possibility of a MITM by creating a fake site from a misspelling, and rather than clicking through security warnings, you can display a dialog telling them that something is seriously wrong and who they need to call, with no way of just clicking through the warnings.

You have two factor authentication; the client cert on the CD and password are separate factors. You have honest to god protection from CA fraud since only the CA you created is loaded. The only ways (I know of...) to compromise this setup are a hardware attack, user completely bypassing you by booting in a VM, or a rootkit in BIOS or the hypervisor.

That's what the Firefox extension, Platypus is for... unfortunately, it's no longer maintained, but Aardvark can produce similarly readable web pages without out too much work. Combine that with the Greasemonkey script, Autopagerize to join those multi-page articles designed to make you look at a whole new set of advertisements for each paragraph, and you come a little closer to having the experience that Tim Berners-Lee had in mind for the world wide web in the first place.

I say that if you're going to encrypt, encrypt everything or at least as much as possible. If the authorities want to come after me with a five dollar wrench so be it, anything that important wouldn't be in my email anyway.

And email encryption is not easy? Install Thunderbird, GnuPG and Enigmail. You can even set rules to encrypt emails to specific people by default. I've gotten my family, close friends and coworkers using Enigmail and they love it. Even better, and my ulterior motive from the start, is that I now have a good-sized web of trust.

https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=23213 was my report. Only vimeo.com does this.

Oeone took a shot at a Mozilla Office Suite before, well more of an everything suite home appliance.
http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/24499

They wrote the guts of Calender and donated it to Mozilla. The word processor part embedded Abiword http://abimoz.mozdev.org/index.html

You don't have to be vulnerable. The listed exploits were patched in Update 22, last spring.

Update available here.

DoublePlusKarmaWhoreGoodness: For best protection, run a Mozilla browser with the NoScript add-on. (AdBlockPlus and RemoveItPermanently make great complements to NoScript, too.)

FF native sync would be fine for those forced to use IE sometimes if they could bring back that IE Tab add-on.

I don't know that IE Tab ever left, although it has changed names.

True enough. My brother uses FF and AdBlock+ but won't install NoScript. Flat out refuses to, saying he hates having to whitelist everything. I've tried explaining that over (reasonable) time the sites you visit are all categorized and you rarely need to add exceptions. Even newly visited sites are fine much of the time.

Use PrefBar.

Cost: One horizontal toolbar's worth of vertical space.

Benefit: User-configurable single-click access to toggle checkboxes that control not only Javashit, Flash, and Java, but also automatic geolocation reporting, image loading (tired of seeing 10 copies of an almost-NSFW 300x480 .gif of bouncing boobs that some idiot used as a .sig when all you want to do is read about how his turbocharger install went?), colors (hate that web designer who put red text on a blue swirly background?), cookies, send-Referrrer-ID, a dropdown to select a user-agent (lookin' at you ExpertSexChange, who hides the answer from everyone but the Google Crawler), and more.

Or use the multifox extension for Firefox. It adds an option to the File menu to open a window with a "new Identity Profile", which doesn't share cookies with the main window. Works fine for me.

Also, Eric Jung is on their 'Advisory board': http://abine.com/team.php If you don't know who he is, he is a board member of Mozilla Add-Ons governing board.

Wrong. Eric Jung is on the board of Mozdev, and independent organization dedicated to hosting Mozilla-related projects (like a specialized Sourceforge). He is not part of the Mozilla Add-ons team.

I'm in charge of the add-on review process at Mozilla, and I personally reviewed and approved the TACO update due to its complexity. I have no relationship with Abine whatsoever.

You can also install a new search engine plugin / search provider from the Mycroft Project: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google+ssl

Someone also already created a google ssl search plugin on mycroft:

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google+ssl

Don't need to edit any config files or install any extra plugins.

You could disable send referrer (network.http.sendRefererHeader). I use PrefBar extension in Mozilla's SeaMonkey v2.0.4. However, some Web sites hate the no send referrers. :(

That works for the location bar. For the search bar you can add a Mycroft search plug-in: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google+ssl and demote/delete the built-in google search plug-in. I guess this is the non-hacker / lazy-ass method :).

http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=google+https

The Mycroft Project provides plugins for almost every site out there.

Oh, I just noticed this:

(mozplugger changelog)

Version 1.13.3 adds functionality to allow possible working around mozdev bugs 22065, 22715 and 22723 by adding a new flag needs_xembed. The flag needs to be added or removed from mozpluggerc to allow application keyboard focus for the combination of browser and application used. The default mozpluggerrc does not use the flag so add were required.

Have you tried setting the needs_xembed flag? I think that is linked to why it works correctly in Chromium, so it must be set.

See this bug:

https://www.mozdev.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=22737

Wonderful thing about firefox is the addons. Go find yourself a copy of Coral IE Tab and Greasemonkey. Any site that won't run correctly in non-IE browsers will load fine in an IE tab (and with the ability to sync cookies and use Adblock plus), and all those sites with "IE specific" code can be rewritten with a Greasemonkey script to correct their bad behavior (for sites you visit frequently and don't want to run in an IE Tab). There really isn't much excuse to be loading internet explorer by itself these days unless you really feel the need to isolate your IE pages from your firefox pages, you're incredibly lazy, or ignorant of your options.

Tor is the obvious answer, combined with Foxyproxy for Firefox to redirect traffic through the tor network only when needed to contact the piratebay site. The Tor website provides a convenient prepackaged browser bundle you can download to see if you like it.

Actually I'm really glad they changed the interface, as it has helped me tremendously with getting folks off of IE and onto Firefox! Thanks IE Team! Oh, for those having trouble convincing an older relative to switch, old hairyfeet has a little trick that seems to work everytime. Don't bother talking about security, their little eyes will just glaze over, what you need is a juicy carrot, or in this case ForecastFox! Just install ForecastFox with their Zip Code at the top (menubar) and you'll find that having the 3 day forecast and weather alerts makes FF sell itself.

Now as for your problem, I'm sorry but IE8 is pretty much IE8. What I CAN do is point you to the page that will let you make Firefox look like IE6. It is an experimental, but if you really want the IE6 look without running an out of date insecure browser this is probably your best bet. Good luck!

If you are too stupid and/or lazy to do this then you should just [b]get foxyproxy.

At least if you're "lazy". It is a lot better than having to bounce in and out of the advanced options

We use Thunderbird with the Enigmail (OpenPGP) plugin at my office to cryptographicly sign and/or encrypt our email.

Our SPAM filter consists of simply rejecting all unsigned e-mail messages.
One exception is that external e-mail addresses can be whitelisted (with approval) to allow for email from companies with no email authentication in place.

It's a bit of a pain at first, but everyone at work agrees that it's a small price to pay when you consider the alternative (inboxes full of spam).
I've never recieved a spam e-mail message at work.
New employees create PGP keys during orientation (or else they can't send any e-mail).

One by one I'm convincing my friends and family to cryptographicly sign their messages (tech-savy ones love the Idea).
Soon I hope to get zero spam at home too.

[sigh]... If only the rest of the Internet authenticated their email we could all have Zero spam in our inboxes.

Even pure Javascript extensions aren't "secure". They can access all the usual XPCOM interfaces to do nasty things like overwrite all your files, and in later versions, they can use the Javascript foreign function interface to call any code C++ could.

It is essential to look at Javascript extensions as having the same security properties as native code ones.

However, plugins can be safer because their more clearly delineated NPAPI interface allows them to be run out of process, where in principle, they can be sandboxed.

I have a prehistoric Moz sitting on an old distro that I have kept since it picked up my webcam before the next release started ignoring it. Back then it wasn't 'self aware' to phone home and check for updates. Didn't see the point as I was using the distro less and less, but the Moz skin http://themes.mozdev.org/themes/negativemod.html sure is beyond compare, and I've kept it that way since.

Hmmm considering one poster below said to stick to 'browsers of that era' if your RAM is 'of that era', I think I'd get FF 1.0+ :) just to make this skin work again (and out of spite).

I want to use Emacs for my editor boxes in Firefox, notably.

Have you tried mozex?

Here ya go: Flashblock, also available in fruity ie and minty chrome flavors.

I use scroogle.org .. it's a proxy between me and google.. and they claim to erase all logs within 48 hours. (I understand it's just a claim.. still it's another entity sitting between me and google). I've always hated the way when search results in google make you think they go straight to link (the hover URL is the site abc.com), but when you click on the item, some javascript converts it to google.com?redirectsomething=abc.com. That is just plain devious in my eyes.

You can also find the search addon at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=scroogle which adds scroogle as default to the firefox search bar.