7February
X Marks the Firefox
On an idea by 
Mat GB, a list of the extensions installed in my current version of Firefox. Being deliberately a touch behind the times, I'm still on 1.5. What's the advantage of 2, anyway?
- DOM Inspector 1.8.0.7
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/inspector/
Haven't a clue what this does, and it says it's disabled, anyway. - CookieCuller 1.3.0
http://cookieculler.mozdev.org/
A cookie manager, helps to protect cookies from deletion. Use this a lot more than I realise. - Web Developer 1.0.2
http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/
Menu and toolbar with various web developer tools. Useful to know it's there, and helpful when working out what's causing a page to screw up. (Most recently: that it's by Times Screwspapers, and is two font sizes to small to actually read.) - Sage 1.3.8
http://sage.mozdev.org
A lightweight RSS and Atom feed aggregator. Doesn't merge everything into one page. Yet. - Adblock 0.5.3.042
http://adblock.mozdev.org
Filters ads from web-pages. Really miss this when using someone else's browser. - Forecastfox 0.8.5.2
http://forecastfox.mozdev.org/
Weather forecasts from an independent weather supplier. No more or less accurate than the Met Office. - TargetAlert 0.8.9.7
http://www.bolinfest.com/targetalert/
Provides visual cues for the destinations of hyperlinks. Really useful, this one, as it shows when a link will open in a new window, when it'll go to PDF, when it'll call Javascript (hawk, spit), or when it's tagged as "nofollow". - NoScript 1.1.4.1
http://noscript.net
Turns off Javascript unless I want it. Default is to have Javascript off; if this breaks the site (cough Haloscan cough), the site is shite. - FxIF 0.2.2
http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/fxif/
View EXIF data in image properties. For occasional use only. - Flashblock 1.5.1
http://flashblock.mozdev.org/
Replaces Flash objects with a button you can click to view them. Don't use this much, because I'm yet to meet a Flash implementation that doesn't rely on Javascript, and breaking the latter also breaks the former. - Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.4
http://tmp.garyr.net
Useful stuff for tab browsing. - Favicon Picker 0.3.0
Allows one to change or delete bookmark icons. Useful for a dozen bookmarks from one site. - Greasemonkey 0.6.5.20060727
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/
Does an awful lot of good stuff, though neither this nor Adblock is my primary defence against ads. - RSS Editor 0.0.9.1
http://rsseditor.mozdev.org
Desktop RSS editor. This was the last piece of the jigsaw that allowed me to switch off Thingamablog. - Platypus 0.64
http://platypus.mozdev.org
Piece of genius, this. Allows one to select a bit of webpage, choose to remove it, and then create a Greasemonkey script to ensure it never appears again. On the old Times site, loading times halved by chopping out all the frickin' I-frames. - Link Widgets 1.5
http://clav.mozdev.org/
A site-navigation tool. Reputable web pages that are divided into sections (like this one) come with a list of <link> elements in the HEAD, describing what's in the page. This extension allows readers to use these descriptors for swift navigation. Less reputable web pages may still have Previous and Next links, and these also appear in the Previous and Next buttons. - Extension List Dumper 1.8.0
http://sogame.awardspace.com/
Dumps a list of the installed extensions. Obviously.
My main defence against commercials is the Proxomitron, a little re-writing engine that sits between the browser and the wider internet. Some of the re-writes it does are:
- Kill LJ Ads, which kills the connection when it encounters an advertisement on Livejournal.
- Sponsored communities, replacing the too-obscure icon with a hulking big cross.
- Sensible LJ syndication, replacing the incorrect syndicated icon with a satellite dish.
- A Multi URL Untangler, for sites like Yahoo that embed the place behind their own crap.
- Yahoo Groups - bypass ad page.
- Embedded MIDI Silencer
- Marquee to p
- Blink to Bold
- Allow for frame resizing
Proxomitron also allows me to block all connections to sites I'd rather not connect to in the first place, such as blatant advertising sites, statistics counters, Gravatar, and G****e.
