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Blocking Ads is NOT Censorship


So this guy apparently thinks that by blocking his ads on his website, you are “stealing”:
The Mozilla Foundation and its Commercial arm, the Mozilla Corporation, has allowed and endorsed Ad Block Plus, a plug-in that blocks advertisement on web sites and also prevents site owners from blocking people using it. Software that blocks all advertisement [...]

Great Firefox Trick


Firefox is great, but everybody knows it has an Achilles heel: massive memory sucking. I have had sessions that have eventually brought my computer down to a crawl, often after I have minimized what I was doing and then come back to it later (as you might imagine, I get interrupted around here a lot). [...]

My Favorite Firefox Extensions


I am linking directly to the developers since, for some reason, direct links to Mozilla’s extensions causes Movable Type to vomit:
Autofill - saves LOTS of time
BugMeNot - Bypass compulsory web registration (i.e., NY Times registration just to read an article, etc.)
Colorful Tabs - helps differentiate tabs nicely
Copy Plain Text
Del.icio.us
Flat Bookmark Editing
ForecastFox
Foxmarks - saved my ass [...]

Google Calendar


…it’s finally live. Go check it out. I like how much easier it is to add events than Yahoo’s calendar.
After that, you’ll enjoy this homemade Firefox ad (especially if you use Firefox). And there’s more where that came from.
Trip recap tomorrow, hopefully.
Tags: google
Links:
365 first-time parenting tips (via ParentHacks, one of my very favorite sites)
Jowlers
Spilling the [...]

Quelle Surprise


Yahoo News: Spyware Barely Touches Firefox
Aint got it yet? Here’s the latest version of Firefox, and a nifty plugin–a grocery list generator

Firefox 1.5


It’s here, it’s here! Firefox 1.5 has been released.
Mozilla plans to introduce new versions more frequently from now on. Firefox 2.0 is due in mid-2006, and the 3.0 release is set for the first quarter of 2007. The group expects to release security and stability updates every six to eight weeks.
Hopefully now it’s safe for [...]