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Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners
Foxy Betty writes "Mozilla Corporation has announced the winners of the Extend Firefox Contest, a project initiated to encourage development of extensions for the Firefox Web browser. A panel of industry notables reviewed more than 200 extensions submitted to the contest."
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I actually find NoScript better than Adblock since most ads are generated using javascript I don't have to think about blocking the ads on a new page since they are already blocked (javascript not executed).
Still one needs Adblock for hard-coded ads, but with NoScript a lot of adblocking is prevented (and the browser becomes more secure).
Second? I see they made a division between 'new' and 'upgraded'.Sage is 'upgraded'.
How about upgrading the windows version without leaving the old version number in the add/remove programs? I have to update 40 or 50 machines at a time and it's a pain uninstalling before installing.
This blog suggests that the issue your complaining about was fixed around a year ago.
Or perhaps I misunderstood your problem?
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Glad to see Web Developer at the top of the list... it is, IMO, by far the most useful Firefox plugin out there. I've been using it at work for a few months, and even got a few co-workers to install Firefox specifically because they wanted to use this plugin...
Just one datapoint, but it reinforces in my mind how important plugins (they're plugins, dammit! why are they pushing the term "extension"!) are to Firefox's success. Which, I guess, was the whole point of this contest.
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...just add an extension! The Nightly Tester Tool does exactly what you ask.
One is a ripoff of OS X Expose. The other is a copy of an IE 7.0 feature.
Reveal is composed by 3 different features, and one of them is tab previewing, but you have search bar where you can "filter" thumbnails by their characteristics, and also show thumbnails of the history of that tab. Really, not similar to Expose or IE 7.
Showcase (which is the extension I developed) is not a copy of IE 7. The idea behind it was to be able to see tabs from windows other than the current one, so you can access them in a fast way. From OS X Expose I took the idea to fit all thumbnails in a single window (without scrolling), and from IE 7 Quick Tabs I took the idea to put a close button to each thumbnail, since it was requested by some users. I finished the first version of this extension quite long before I learnt about Quick Tabs.
Calling this "stealing" is really harsh language. Microsoft Windows copied lots of stuff from Mac OS, Mac OS copied a lot of stuff from Xerox Star... So you see, open source is not really different to closed source in that sense.
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Hey, you probably know that, but there is a well maintained, autoupdated set of rules for almost all Ads out there. :)
It's called Filterset G.
This in addition to Adblock plus keeps all ads out of sight without having to configure a single thing. No worries.
I highly recommend it to anyone and it's part of my default install for friends...
It's not a fox or a racoon. It's a Firefox, which is a real animal, which looks similar to the plush.
I got a chuckle the other day (Feb. 24th) when his status read "Happy Birthday!"
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