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[mithriltabby]

I’m quite enjoying Firefox’s extension capabilities. Adding Adblock (and telling it about a few important patterns like http://*.doubleclick.net/* and http://servedby.advertising.com/*) and Flashblock does an amazing job of cleaning up web pages. (Flashblock is particularly nice in that you can watch the flash plug-ins if you want to, but it waits for you to click an icon to do so.)

Some other good ones are Tabbrowser Extensions— a browser without the customizations you can get from that one feels very clumsy— and Mouse Gestures, which are very handy when using a system with a large screen when you don’t want to mouse all the way to the edge to use buttons.

BugMeNot is pretty handy for reading news on the sites that demand registration: just invoke it and it will offer you a login and password that will let you get past the “you must register” screens.

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[mdlbear]

I couldn't stand Mouse Gestures, but the Tabbrowser Extensions are indispensible. So is Text Links, which lets you use selected text as a link. If you do much web-server work, you should also look into Live HTTP Headers, which shows the conversation between browser and server in real-time.

[mithriltabby]

LiveHTTPHeaders is quite nifty!

I like mouse gestures on a big screen with a mouse or trackball that can wind up a reasonable distance from the keyboard; on a laptop with a trackpad, my fingers are so close to the keyboard it doesn’t take any time to just hit the macros. It’s important to disable the gestures I don’t use, since my error rate on gestures is noticeable. The ones I use the most often are UL and UR to change tabs, DR to close tabs, and 7 and 3 to increase and decrease the size of fonts and images on the screen when I’m leaning back from my 1600×1200 monitor.

[abditus.livejournal.com]

Cool, I'll have to check out Flashblock.

I just wish they would have fixed it in .9 so that mouse gestures in OS X didn't hijack the right mouse button.

[mithriltabby]

Some more good patterns:

http://*.valueclick.com/*
http://*.adsdk.com/*
http://*.instacontent.net/*
http://*.atdmt.com/*
http://*.com/ads/*
http://*.com/RealMedia/ads/*