Out of the Stoneage
 

A couple of weeks ago I finally installed anadd-on for Firefox. I've not done this before andwas never particularly interested.

But now I have installed an ad-blocker and I think that this is a fantastic piece of software.

However, I have noticed one side-effect; I find it difficult to use a PC where there is no ad-blocker because the flashing adverts are too distracting.

Do you use any good add-ons for Firefox?

Do flashing adverts distract attention from what you're doing, even when you are unaware of them?

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That's a really interesting comment there. To what extent are we distracted by things that we are unaware of? I think this kind of notion is beyond my understanding of philosophy.

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Going back to the media thread, that would be a good thing to use a journal for.

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Yeah, it took me a couple of years too before I found out about the joy that is add-ons, but once I had, I went apeshit crazy with them:

Adblock-Plus -> adblocker + custom filter
Firebug -> debugging tool for websites
Flashblock -> blocks all flash, replaces each with a "play" button which starts it (think youtube, shock sites)
Long titles -> prevents the breaking off of long alt-text popups (xkcd)
FireFTP -> ftp client
SpiderZilla -> website mirror utility

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While we're at it, can I get Firefox or an ad-blocker on my Nokia N95?

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foxmarks - i use different computers, helps me sync all my bookmarks
adblock plus - as mentions
download helper - helps me download flash movies from youtube and lots of other sides. there's quite a few of these addons, actually.
noscript - blocks javascript, which prevents xss attacks and the like
cookiesafe - only accepts cookies from sites you trust

i've also installed a plethora of search engines for the thing in the top left hand corner.

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firefox is shit, keeps hanging on my system and it seems a number of add-ons cause the said effect - this is regardless of reinstalls (complete inc. registry cleaning), using FF2 / FF3,

the addons that causes it are: noscript, add-block plus

anyway, i used to use external ip, greasemonkeys, better gmail 2, customize google, url fixer

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Aswell as Adblock I use:

CustomiseGoogle ->removes adverts and when typing in a search brings up the searches with the mot results which start with those letters

Google Reader notifier

Googlepedia -> displays the wikipedia article for your google search in the google page

google preview -> inserts images next too all the results in google so you get a vague idea of the page that you will load
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IE Tab

No Script

PDF Download

Video Downloader

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Last updated: Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:59:20 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Extensions (enabled: 17, disabled: 0):

* 1-ClickWeather 1.1.6 - Instant local weather, alerts, etc, all sitting in your Firefox window
* Adblock Plus 0.5.11.4 - this really goes without saying
* DownThemAll! 1.0.1 - a good mass downloader, mainly for pages with a lot of pictures. Download by file extension on a page, etc
* Fission 0.9.7.1 - the address bar is also a progress bar, Safari-style
* Gmail Notifier 0.6.3.2 - notifier for Gmail
* Image Zoom 0.3.1 - zoom images as well as text
* InfoLister 0.10 - expressly for threads like this - lists all your installed extensions and themes :)
* Java Console 6.0.01
* Java Console 6.0.03
* Java Console 6.0.05
* Linkification 1.3.3 - converts text links into clickable links
* Mouse Gestures Redox 2.0.0 - mouse gestures are fantastic
* PDF Download 1.0.1.1 - stops you from accidentally killing your computer by clicking on PDFs by mistake. Also converts them to HTML if wanted.
* Super DragAndGo 0.2.6 - drag links to anywhere blank on a page and it'll open in a new tab. Enhanced laziness basically.
* Tabbrowser Preferences 1.3.1.1 - enhanced tabs
* Talkback 2.0.0.11 - tells Mozilla why Firefox breaks
* Tiny Menu 1.4.9 - replaces the standard menu bar with a 'Menu' button akin to the back/forward/stop/refresh buttons.

And now Long Titles, thanks Mz.

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downloadthemall which is a much less shitty download manager

and download 'helper' which steals lets me video from various video sites

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Noscript
Adblock
Sage - checks blogs and tells you if there's been an update
download statusbar - means no download popup thing (altho is a bit annoying as closing firefox cancels download)
Fast video download - save off youtube etc
Foxytunes - shows what mp3 you're listening to
IEtab - one click "change to IE for this page" which is really useful for those sites that don't like firefox
Stumbleupon - find new sites :)

Might add that longtitlename thing as well!

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With the Youtube video rippers, is there a way to get them in a formt other than flv?

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there's some software you can download which converts flv's to wma's.

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there are free flv players. don't see the problem really. my media player plays them. i'm sure there are flv plugins around for whatever you use.

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Generally you'll encounter quality loss (and/or file size increases) when converting from one lossy format to the next, so I would recommend against it.

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What are the best FLV players to use? VLC doesn't really do the job since you can't skip forward/backwards in the video.

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I've got FLVPlayer4Free, but I've not tried it yet so I'm not sure how good it is.

High user rating on www.download.com though.

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BetterSearch, Long Titles, NoScript, SiteAdvisor and TabBrowser Preferences to get a couple of tiny things fixed for tabs. Didn't realise I used so many actually, I forget about BetterSearch entirely (I just assume Google looks like that) and Long Titles is a must xkcd

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I use FLV player - http://www.download.com/FLV-Player/3...-10467081.html

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After a few weeks of using some add ons, the ones I really like are Customise Google, Fission and Gmail Notifier.

Is there an application which will check, not only my Gmail account, but also my Yahoo and uni e-mail accounts for me?