Archive for March, 2005
Firefox Extensions
While Firefox comes with a lot of almost useless extensions, I use some of them repeatedly. You guessed it!
The best Firefox extension out there. To me, its impossible to surf web without it. Brilliant idea. As the authors best describes this piece of software:
Adblock is a content filtering plug-in for the Mozilla and Firebird browsers. It is both more robust and more precise than the built-in image blocker. Adblock allows the user to specify filters, which remove unwanted content based on the source-address.
I managed to setup an almost comprehensive block list for adblock, based on my webbrowsing experience. Using this list you can block most of annoying web ads and scripts.
To use this list, download and save it as a text file, then import it to adblock (Tools->Adblock->Preferences->Adblock options->Import filters). Make sure you append this list to yours, instead of overwriting your list.
The name is self-describing. SwitchProxy is an extension that lets you organize all your proxy servers. The best feature of this extension is anonymous browsing:
The SwitchProxy tool now has an Anonymous Proxy feature. An anonymizer uses a list of proxies that it randomly switches between at defined intervals. Many people used anonymizers to sheild their IP address and protect themselves from hackers, online tracking, havesting and other website snooping techniques.
I’ve tested many other extensions, like IEView, Tabbrowser Preferences, Forecastfox, … . But most of them are not very handy, while they render your browser stable. I personally don’t like loading my browsing with too many extensions that I may use them once in a month.
Ports
You will understand the value of FreeBSD ports system once you try to setup PHP 5 and Apache 2 work on Fedora Core 3.
FreeBSD ports system seriously rocks.
