Firefox goodies

[Christopher Chisholm]

My favorite thing about firefox is actually a plugin for firefox called 
'adblock'.  It's probably the most amazing invention mankind has ever 
known.  It allows you to right-click on any graphic and block it from 
being displayed.  In addition, it allows you to block flash videos and 
other mediums usually used by advertisements.  When you choose to block 
an item, a dialog box pops up with its URL(I?).  You can click okay and 
block just that graphic, or you can use a wildcard (*) to block part of 
a whole address or an entire domain.

For example, if you chose to adblock a banner for those stupid small 
security cameras, the url might be 
"http://www.adserver.net/images/annoyingcameras.gif".  you could block 
just that one, or type "http://www.adserver.net*" to block EVERYTHING 
from adserver.net.  After a while of doing this you start to notice a 
lot less ads floating around the net.  On top of that, there's nothing 
quite as satisfying as banishing an ad from your browser forever.

-chris

Ben Scott wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>  Time for a random "You may find it useful to know..." post.
>
>  I use Firefox.  (BTW -- Firefox 1.5 rocks.  Faster and more stable,
>I've found.)  I like Firefox a lot.  I've recently come across a few
>things in Firefox that just really made my day.  I figured I'd share. 
>  I encourage others to join in and post their favorite Firefox gems.
>
>  First, type "about:config" into the location bar to access all the
>possible knobs in Firefox.  Many of these are not exposed elsewhere in
>the UI.  I set the following:
>
>// BLINK was always evil
>browser.blink_allowed = false
>
>// disable auto-www/com-ification
>// "Guessing usually makes things worse"
>browser.fixup.alternate.enabled = false
>
>/ don't let web pages take over my browser
>// "It's my fscking computer; get your grubby JavaScript off it"
>dom.disable_window_move_resize = true
>dom.disable_window_open_feature.directories  = true
>dom.disable_window_open_feature.location  = true
>dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar  = true
>dom.disable_window_open_feature.minimizable  = true
>dom.disable_window_open_feature.personalbar  = true
>dom.disable_window_open_feature.resizable  = true
>dom.disable_window_open_feature.scrollbars  = true
>dom.disable_window_open_feature.titlebar  = true
>dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar  = true
>
>// don't search from URL bar
>// also keeps misplaced middle-click from sending me Ghod knows where
>// "It's bad enough that I can't type worth a damn; don't turn my typos into
>//  random web pages on top of that"
>user_pref("keyword.enabled", false);
>
>  Finally, I recently discovered the "DisableBackspaceNavigation"
>extension.  For those of you who have ever lost a lot of form input
>due to a mis-focused [Backspace] keystroke, this will be like a breath
>of fresh air.
>
>  Hope this helps somebody!
>
>-- Ben
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