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Building a Better Mozilla With Plugins

Posted by michael on from the halt-and-catch-fire dept.

Ant writes "Wired has a story on how to improve Mozilla and Firefox web browsers with various plugins/extensions (XPI installations). It lists some of the extensions that have been rated highly by Mozilla users like BugMeNot. One of them not listed and my favorite is PrefBar."

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  1. Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're back on track with a good Mozilla article. Now I can get some decent Slashdotting done. Well, that and switching my PC over to Gentoo.

    I mean, all these articles about TV and movies this morning? Bring on the Mozilla, Linux, and Mac articles. Let's get some good Microsoft bashing going! Daddy needs his fix!

  2. Re:At least by Jugalator · · Score: 5, Funny

    It may be slightly inconvenient, but at least the Mozilla extension system isn't a blank check to hackers like IE's ActiveX system.

    How about a ... plugin to fix that? :-)

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  3. magpie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Magpie also includes tools for adjusting a site's URL by incrementing or decrementing the numbers in it ... This is a good extension for those who do a lot of research online.
    Yup. I find this priceless while "researching" the webs many sequentially numbered jpegs.

    Especially as I can now do it one-handed.
    1. Re:magpie by Hal-9001 · · Score: 2, Funny
      If you're stuck browsing sequentially numbered jpegs at work...
      I'm pretty sure that the sequentially-number JPEGs that he's browsing one-handed are NOT work-safe!
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  4. Re:frist psot by FosterKanig · · Score: 3, Funny

    If you hadn't spent so much time spell-checking your post, you might have gotten it.

  5. Re:Corporate Acceptance? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    What can Mozilla offer that will aid its cause in the enterprise environment.

    A swift kick in the nuts to the C[E|I|T]O. OK, that wouldn't really be helping its cause, but it would make me feel better.

  6. Re:My two cents by sanosuke001 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Thanks.... now I feel like a moron.. I guess that "you learn something new everyday" is done for me! Now I can rest assured that if I sleep the rest of the day, I've still learned something.... I guess

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    -SaNo