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Some old some new… Firefox Tweaks, Extensions and Optimizations
April 13th, 2006
Speaking of Firefox extensions, I recently installed a few that have proven very helpful and entertaining.
The first is called, “Stumble”. It requires a simple sign-up so it can track your preferences and votes. Once you’re in, you click a few preference choices, click the stumble button, and you’re off. It will present sites that are meant to be relevant to your preferences. Once you look at a site, you give it a thumbs up or down. “Stumble” remembers these votes and uses them to continuously refine the list of sites it sends you. You can also submit sites for others to enjoy. This is a fantastic time waster. I found one of the sites I shared on the blog with it.
The second is called “Adblock”. There is also a related extension that includes common ad types or sites which I installed so it would work well from the beginning. What I’ve most often noticed missing when I browse now is that those “ads by Google” no longer are there to distract one’s eyes from real content. This is particularly good for me because I mostly hate marketing & advertising. I seek to avoid them in every form whenever possible, unless I am actively looking to make a purchase. I prefer that my desires and needs be chased & fulfilled by my own judgement independent of the lures set by marketing & advertising.
April 13th, 2006
My favorite hands down is still Bugmenot. I use that thing all day long. Take that evil registration required.
April 14th, 2006
What does this extension, “Bugmenot”, do??
April 15th, 2006
It keeps a database of logins for sites (like the WSJ or NYT) when you are prompted for a userid and password you just right click and select bug-me-not and it fills in a username and password.
April 16th, 2006
What does it do that the password saver in Firefox doesn’t do? I make heavy use of it since I tend to use different passwords for each site that requires a login. The only site that doesn’t play as nicely as it could is ajc.com, which requires me to manually type in my first name at login time.
April 17th, 2006
People create a login id on the bug-me-not site then the software allows everyone to use the username and password as long as they last, then another is created…
That way you never have to give up your personal information just to read an article some bozo posted on his Completely Evil Blog… ;-)