firefox 3.5 add ons

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hclarkjr

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looking for some cool themes and add on that other people use. just switched from IE8. i have never used anything other than IE but got tired of it. thanx
 
Many threads like this already, but I'll bite.

My required Add-Ons for a new FF installation.

-Xmarks (if I had to pick one add-on to use for the rest of my life, this would be it)
-AutoPager(makes browsing forums great)
-add-on which shall not be named
-Personas(best theme manager, hands down)
-Googlepedia
 
Don't ever forget NoScript. The only thing that's going to keep you more secure than proper use of NoScript is sandboxing.
 
phide said:
Don't ever forget NoScript. The only thing that's going to keep you more secure than proper use of NoScript is sandboxing.
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Ehh, I hate that thing. Way to much time needs to be spent to keep perfectly safe things from not being blocked. To much work for me. Never used it and I have never needed it.
 
like for instance i am a redskins fan but there is none listed there that work with 3.5
 
3.5 is new... give it a few months and a lot more add-ons will support it.

In the mean time, I suggest this add-on...

http://www.getpersonas.com/

Follow the tutorials on their site to create your own redskins theme. It's easy, don't worry.
 
Stylish...CoolPreviews...Cooliris...DownloadHelper...FlashGot...Image Zoom...New Tab Homepage...Right-Click-Link...GooglePreview
 
hclarkjr said:
are there websites for ad ons other than from the company that made firefox?
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There are quite a few for induvidual projects BUT they can be hard to find - addons.mozilla.org is just a central place for ppl to find them
 
Must haves:
Adblock Plus
Flashblock (click on the play button to see the flash and right click the flash box to have the option to always allow flash for site)
Google Toolbar (take the time to configure the buttons on it - I recommend the search site function, up a folder/level on a website, highlight search terms on page and make each search word a find button for starters)
Download statusbar - a status bar will pop up at the bottom of the window for downloads instead of a separate box
 
Adblock+Noscript will protect you from a majority of the viruses/malware/exploits out there. A ton of them come via advertising engines.

Noscript is much less painful, if in the options, you set the flag for automatically allow content from sites you access from bookmarks, and from the root domain of the site you are visiting.
 
I'm surprised people so openly talk about using AdBlock when it is means for being banned per the [H] rules.
 
phide said:
Don't ever forget NoScript. The only thing that's going to keep you more secure than proper use of NoScript is sandboxing.
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x10. Set it to hide mode (so it only displays an icon when it blocks a script) and it's a lot less annoying. Never install firefox without it :)

grease monkey is a pretty cool plugin as well, can do a lot of neat things with it.

Stumbleupon is a good plugin too when you're bored.
 
So I just tried NoScript again and once more it gets so annoying I have to uninstall it. There is SO much I need to be able to do that it blocks and I don't have the patience to keep whitelisting things.

Been using FF since 1.0 this far and never had an issue.
 
I would consider a click or two to be infinitely less irritating than the potential issues you could find yourself trying to resolve by not using NoScript. This is most definitely a case where the actual pros outweigh the so-called cons by such a degree that there's simply no reason not to use it.

I've been to some webpages that end up having content pulled from as many as 60 different domains at one time - and one click gets me the content I actually want, while sending the rest off to some null space.

I remember using Mosaic in very late 1993 and thinking "Wow, pictures and text... how cool is this." Nowadays, I have to say, the Internet sucks overall compared to what it once was. The commercialization of it ruined what it could have been... sad.

A few months ago the NoScript author made a huge booboo by modifying another addon (ABP) to whitelist his own site to get ad revenue - he apologized, of course but even so, he fucked up pretty bad by doing that. I still use NoScript because it does things nothing else does and it does them well, but it's not the only tool in the arsenal.
 
Noscript is a POS. Causes more problems than helps. There's no reason to use this at all if you're not going to any weird ass pron sites.
 
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ASIA911 said:
Noscript is a POS. Causes more problems than helps.
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Yea, I made myself stick with it for a hour because of the high praise it gets but I wanted to punch my computer screen by the end. So goddamn annoying.
 
criccio said:
Yea, I made myself stick with it for a hour because of the high praise it gets but I wanted to punch my computer screen by the end. So goddamn annoying.
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The reason it got so many dl and rating because definitely it's a big help to million of pron surfers/warez dl out there. But for normal surfing. This add-on is a head case.
 
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criccio said:
Yea, I made myself stick with it for a hour because of the high praise it gets but I wanted to punch my computer screen by the end. So goddamn annoying.
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ASIA911 said:
I mean I wouldn't have much problem with it if most the sites that I go to it should have a small popup to say if you want to block it or whitelist it instead of freaking blocking everything that it think it doesn't trust. I mean who got that kind of patient to manually have to go into Noscript every freaking time for every freaking websites to fix it? THis is the one of the most annoying add-on. The reason it got so many dl and rating because definitely it's a big help to million of pron surfers/warez dl out there. But for normal surfing. This add-on is a head case.
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I addressed this earlier in the thread:
Noscript is much less painful, if in the options, you set the flag for automatically allow content from sites you access from bookmarks, and from the root domain of the site you are visiting.
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Menelmarar said:
I addressed this earlier in the thread:
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Ok, I didn't see it have the small option located at the bottom. That was my main piss off about it having to manually go into Noscript because I couldn't find an option anywhere waiting to see if there's a popup or whatever that it supposed to do.
 
ASIA911 said:
The reason it got so many dl and rating because definitely it's a big help to million of pron surfers/warez dl out there. But for normal surfing. [NoScript] is a head case.
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I got a rather nasty piece of spyware from a popular file hosting site (Rapidshare) that resulted in me having to reinstall Windows. NoScript would have prevented it.

I don't see what the issue is, honestly. Something doesn't work? Allow JavaScript from that domain. The page refreshes. Still doesn't work? The scripts are being hosted elsewhere (a bad practice, albeit a common one). Run through each to determine which is necessary to get the functionality you want.

If NoScript isn't your thing, then odds are Sandboxie is. Sandboxie will keep you secure without requiring any kind of intervention.
 
People like to bitch, moan, and whine about things, yanno... it's human nature, so, NoScript is just more road kill on the Information Superhighway of sorts. I use it, haven't had issues, and again, the pros of having it in operation far outweigh the cons (a click, maybe two, one time and then it's done).

YMMV...
 
God this thread keeps making me go back and try it. Took me FOREVER to get it to allow my uTorrent web UI. I have to temporarily allow all scripts on Digg.com to let the login window to pop-up.
 
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