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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."
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.
They're probably really nice and elegant and all that but ... are they not just a wee bitty dull? I mean, two out of the three winners appear to create thumbnails of pages (whether from the history or other open pages). And while Web Developer is a fantastic package it's hardly cutting edge and new. I was hoping for something with real pizzaz. Something where the very idea and description was enough to make me go, "wow".
Anyone else find it a bit anticlimactic?
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http://adblockplus.mozdev.org/
Do not install all the entrants at once. It would be bad.
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).
I can't live without the Abe Vigoda Status extension (FYI -- he's alive as of 8:30am US Eastern Time).
AdBlock can block scripts too. In fact AdBlock can block almost anything: images, iframes, embeds, objects, etc.
Not all people are that good with HTML/Web terminology: AdBlock unfortunately use lots of it. It's okay for me. But my friend e.g. has whole bunch of extensions (a-la FlashBlock, NoScript) which in fact do what I do with AdBlock alone.
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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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Exactly; if you want ad agencies to "get your message", try to actually block the ads you find annoying instead of blocking _all_ ads... if flash/dhtml ads get less and less views compared to "normal" banners, they will get the message...
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...just add an extension! The Nightly Tester Tool does exactly what you ask.
The problem isn't that the extension is incompatible, but that the extension creator(s) didn't bother to follow the guidelines provided for compatibility version labeling. The security update isn't big enough to compromise the functioning of extensions. The Nightly Tester Tools extension easily does the maxversion bumping that you want until the extension author(s) realize that they had ignored the guidelines.
One of the finalists really stood out to me, Platypus, which allows users to dynamically edit the sites they visit and then be able to save the changes to a GreaseMonkey script. It works great on getting rid of some of those annoyances on sites you visit.
These are the Firefox extensions I can't live without
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GooglePreview:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
Venkman Javascript Debugger (for 1.5):
http://getahead.ltd.uk/ajax/venkman
Live HTTP Headers:
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/
Peter
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...
FWIW, if I use the search function (searching in extensions) from Galeon, the results returned have &application=Galeon appended to the URL, which seems to me to confirm that it is user-agent dependent.
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It's not a fox or a racoon. It's a Firefox, which is a real animal, which looks similar to the plush.
Not entirely true though. I use NoScript to block in-html javascript on sites.
# #(.*js)|(.*swf)$
.*\.developers.slashdot.org if you're visiting developers.slashdot.org
I've also extended my own version of AdBlock to incorporate a new feature which I named relative-to-site blocking: you define what the "site" is with a regexp, a few special modifiers and filter non-matching content from it with a regexp. For example, the following rule:
##\dom##.*
Would block all content which is not coming from the domain currently in the status bar, so if you're surfing example.com images and javascript linked from google-analytics.com will get blocked, but if you're surfing google-analytics.com (for any reason) it allows you to watch it. Of course there is a whitelist too,
#@example2\.com##
or a regular expression like #@\tld:hu##
Then there are the two-level filters which really give the fine-tuning abilities:
###\tld:com|biz|net#####(\dom=/example/)|(\sadom)
A bit of an explanation for this one, the first regexp is a regexp deciding what kind of domains you want to match, the second regexp decides that the domain you're matching - how do you want it to be considered a site and the third part decides what kind of filtering to do with content that doesn't match your defined "site".
Currently five special "variables" exist:
\tld:top-level-domain(s)-here - Self explanatory
\dom(=/regexp/)? - Current domain you're at - like developers.slashdot.org. There is an optional regexp if you want to specify what kind of domains you want this rule to match for - useful for creating multiple-choice rules. Like the long one above.
\cdom(=/regexp/)? - Conservative domain - like slashdot.org even though you're visiting developers.slashdot.org.
\sadom(=/regexp/)? - Subdomains and domain - like
\csadom(=/regexp/)? - Conservative domain and subdomains - like *.\.slashdot.org if you're visiting developers.slashdot.org
Currently it is only used by me, I made a post about this a while back on the Adblock plus forum, but the Adblock plus devs didn't really react. I might contribute code back if there is interest though.
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Although we didn't win this time, we think our CookiePie extension is currently very innovative giving you the possibility to open different mail (i.e: Gmail/Yahoo) or web accounts on each tab. More information at: CookiePie Firefox extension
If Microsoft can be innovative by copying someone else's features so can we.
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