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Since Facebook people do not appreciate my work . . .
Part I is here.
I test out an inordinate number of extensions. Most suck, but a few are great. Here are the best I've used recently.
Adblock Plus Pop-Up. Firefox automatically blocks pop-ups, and Adblock Plus automatically blocks ads. Great. One thing that is not blocked by either is pop-ups generated by user action; i.e., everything is fine until you click somewhere on the page, then the pop-ups start, in some cases a new pop-up for each thing you click. This blocks that.
Facebook Disconnect. By now I'm sure you've seen "Connect to this page using Facebook Connect," or something along those lines. Facebook is trying to take over the world. There are a million sites out there using Facebook Connect. I've never liked that fact, because Mark Zuckerberg is an untrustworthy fuck. This add-on displays a little icon if the page you're on initiates a Facebook request; you click the icon, the request is blocked. Essentially, this cuts down on FB's ability to track you. I'unno about you, but it makes me feel safer.
Hide Find Bar. Using CTRL+F activates the find bar, which we can use to find text quicker when we know exactly what we're looking for but don't want to scroll through a wall of text. But it doesn't close automatically; to close it, we have to move the cursor to the left hand corner and hit a little tiny X. Eh, not such a big deal, I guess; it's inconvenient at best. But I like my browsing experience to be as convenient--and efficient--as possible. Hide Find Bar does what it says on the tin, and you can adjust the time limit to whatever you like.
On a related note, Find To Center. Normally, using CTRL+F puts the found text at the bottom of the screen, and it can be difficult to see if you've also got the Add-on Bar open, or if NoScript blocked something on the page. Plus you then have to scroll down anyway to read the text you just searched for, which kinda defeats the purpose of it. Find To Center, again, does what it says on the tin. The found text will be at the center of the screen. (I'm hoping a future FF update will make this feature automatic; it's just common sense.)
Speedfox. For someone like Erdos, this one would probably be useless. For those of us with very limited computer knowledge, this is awesome! It just tweaks your configuration to make pages load faster, saving you literally seconds, perhaps even a full minute over the course of a day, 365 minutes over an entire year. That's like 6 hours, bro. What could you accomplish with an extra 6 hours a year?
Lastly, Walnut Theme. It gives your browser the texture and color of a walnut, duh. That might sound hokey, but this is one of the best looking themes I've ever used. (And, strangely, it seems to be even faster than the default theme.)
Part I is here.
I test out an inordinate number of extensions. Most suck, but a few are great. Here are the best I've used recently.
Adblock Plus Pop-Up. Firefox automatically blocks pop-ups, and Adblock Plus automatically blocks ads. Great. One thing that is not blocked by either is pop-ups generated by user action; i.e., everything is fine until you click somewhere on the page, then the pop-ups start, in some cases a new pop-up for each thing you click. This blocks that.
Facebook Disconnect. By now I'm sure you've seen "Connect to this page using Facebook Connect," or something along those lines. Facebook is trying to take over the world. There are a million sites out there using Facebook Connect. I've never liked that fact, because Mark Zuckerberg is an untrustworthy fuck. This add-on displays a little icon if the page you're on initiates a Facebook request; you click the icon, the request is blocked. Essentially, this cuts down on FB's ability to track you. I'unno about you, but it makes me feel safer.
Hide Find Bar. Using CTRL+F activates the find bar, which we can use to find text quicker when we know exactly what we're looking for but don't want to scroll through a wall of text. But it doesn't close automatically; to close it, we have to move the cursor to the left hand corner and hit a little tiny X. Eh, not such a big deal, I guess; it's inconvenient at best. But I like my browsing experience to be as convenient--and efficient--as possible. Hide Find Bar does what it says on the tin, and you can adjust the time limit to whatever you like.
On a related note, Find To Center. Normally, using CTRL+F puts the found text at the bottom of the screen, and it can be difficult to see if you've also got the Add-on Bar open, or if NoScript blocked something on the page. Plus you then have to scroll down anyway to read the text you just searched for, which kinda defeats the purpose of it. Find To Center, again, does what it says on the tin. The found text will be at the center of the screen. (I'm hoping a future FF update will make this feature automatic; it's just common sense.)
Speedfox. For someone like Erdos, this one would probably be useless. For those of us with very limited computer knowledge, this is awesome! It just tweaks your configuration to make pages load faster, saving you literally seconds, perhaps even a full minute over the course of a day, 365 minutes over an entire year. That's like 6 hours, bro. What could you accomplish with an extra 6 hours a year?
Lastly, Walnut Theme. It gives your browser the texture and color of a walnut, duh. That might sound hokey, but this is one of the best looking themes I've ever used. (And, strangely, it seems to be even faster than the default theme.)
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