24th October, 2007
My Top 5 Firefox Add-Ons
Wednesday, 8:05 pm in Geeking
So Mint is telling me a bunch of super-fun stuff after a week or so in action, and one of them is that 52% of people who visit the domain use Firefox. Congratulations, visitors! The majority of you are not idiots! The next biggest block of users is IE at 41%, and interestingly only 18% of all visitors still use IE6. Which is good, since I quite deliberately don’t design for IE6 any more, and thus most of my newer sites look terrible in it.
Anyway, I got in trouble the other day from ~Mat [h] for “not blogging enough” while he was home sick, and since I can’t think of anything actually relevant to say, I’m going to submit to a meme I stole from Amelie and list for you all my Top 5 Firefox add-ons; the ones I absolutely cannot live without. So, in no particular order:
- LiveJournal Addons
You know what really sucks? Having to actually physically go check LiveJournal to see if anyone’s made a new post or a new comment or added you as a friend. Sure, getting updates via IM by Frank the LJ (Jabber) Bot is pretty cool, but I don’t always have access to Jabber (besides which, I’m technically not supposed to use it at work). Which is where this add-on picks up the slack; giving me notifications in the bottom right-hand corner of my window whenever I’ve got a new message, new friends or new posts to read. Great stuff. - Link Alert
An extremely simple yet extremely awesome mod; all it does is change the cursor depending on what type of link you’re hovering over. Never be surprised again! - FireFTP
It’s an FTP client. It sits in a tab in Firefox and connects to FTP; so simple, and yet so useful. Best of all, unlike most free-standing FTP clients, it’s easy to use, has no spyware and is completely free. Wow! I actually really resented it when changes to our work firewall meant I could no longer use this app and instead had to get a separate client. - Adblock Plus
I don’t know what’s better about this add-on; the fact that it removes ads or the fact that it annoys people who have ads. Plus, you don’t actually have to use it to block ads; it will block pretty much anything. Sick of idiots embedding shitty mp3s into their MySpace profiles? Then this is the add-on for you! - Extended Cookie Manager
I’m really anal about cookies. I think it’s an age hold-over thing (they were the Next Big Panic at one point), but nevertheless I block deny the damn things unless they’re actually doing something for me. The unfortunate thing about this is that Firefox doesn’t have an in-built option to change cookie settings for sites on the fly, and I hate having to go back into Preferences all the time and dig through my cookie options just to unblock the site I’m currently visiting. Hence this add-on, which provides me with a handy little icon in the bottom-right corner that not only graphically shows me what the settings for the current site are, but allows me to change them on the fly.
So, there you go. A completely content-free post that is nonetheless useful to you, the visitor. Apparently I have to make more of these if I ever want to Make It In The Blogsphere. Or something.
Speaking of which, the much-neglected links page has had a bit of a revamp, and I’ve added a new page humorously called ‘Articles’ wherein I attempt to list some of the vaguely interesting posts I’ve made in the past. Hooray.
Edit: Okay, fixed the ‘Articles’ section link. Durr, Dee.
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FireFTP! \m/
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I think you have obtained a new level of creepiness.
Yeah, I’m sure my movements are exciting, too. Page, page, page… long-ass pause while I eat dinner. Page.
AND L2EMOTICON. JEEZ. They’re so cute but oh so consistently fragmented.
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Hahaha, ironically I clearly understand comment threads perfectly. PHAIL.
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Mint takes creepy website stalkage to a whole new level. Like woah.
And no dumping on my emoticons, hey. It’s not their fault that they’re running on an extremely old parser and the code is a bit… less than optimal.
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They’re adorable as hell, though. (Not that… hell is adorable or anything. lolslang.) I WILL GIVETH THEE THAT.
I’ll bet furced.net has error reports up the ASS thanks to my trial-and-error method of haxing error pages a few hours ago, btw. Sorry for that.
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You’ll probably find your Firefox statistic goes up gradually (particularly as lazy ass commenters like me finally get around to remembering to actually read other people’s blogs…)
The thing I like most about Mint is that its hosted on site so those people who enable JavaScript to comment on my entries (to get past the sucky half-arsed spam protection) are automatically picked up. Stuff like google analytics and reinvigorate can be disabled separately so offer (theoretically) less stalkerage possibilities.
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e-Stalker Extraordinaire
The thing I like most about Mint is that its hosted on site so those people who enable JavaScript to comment on my entries (to get past the sucky half-arsed spam protection) are automatically picked up.
Hah! This is why I love AdBlock Plus; I have a special filter in it for
http://*/mint/?js.
The fact that it’s JavaScript is probably the one thing that annoys me about Mint, most specifically because I had to go back to serving v-s.net as
text/htmland that just hurts me inside (when I get some spare hours I’m going back to re-code the template as HTML Strict, but I don’t have the energy right now
). And, yeah, it’s just too easy to disable; though realistically they’re aren’t a lot of other options for this kind of thing… or, in fact, any really. Which is why I run it in tandem to sk.hits; because I am a crazy-ass stalker and even if you disable JavaScript I will still get you! Mwahahaha! -
Hehe, smart-arse!
I only use NoScript *feels feeble*Yes, it is too easy to disable, but that requires some degree of ‘net smarts. While most of *my* visitors are lovely, the majority lack competence with even the most basic tasks on the Internet. This is what enables me to get away with spouting some of the most over-exaggerated bullshit ever, so I’m not too worried about them getting ‘round it (or even knowing where to start).
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This is what enables me to get away with spouting some of the most over-exaggerated bullshit ever
Jem I’m scandalised by such an admission!
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Oh, come on! It’s nothing I haven’t said before.
This goes beyond the realms of people lacking Internet sense though…Does anyone really give a crap that webmaster xyz took content abc or that this company did this or this person did that? No, of course they don’t. Put in a few jokes, make it sound like something worth talking about and it becomes entertainment. The simpler the mind the easier it is to target.
That’s not to say I ever write anything that is intentionally misleading, I’m just good at polishing turds