Mozilla Announces Extend Firefox Contest Winners 163
Foxy Betty writes "Mozilla Corporation has announced the winners of the Extend Firefox Contest, a project initiated to encourage development of extensions for the Firefox Web browser. A panel of industry notables reviewed more than 200 extensions submitted to the contest."
If only... (Score:1)
Re:If only... (Score:4, Informative)
Re:If only... (Score:2, Informative)
Still one needs Adblock for hard-coded ads, but with NoScript a lot of adblocking is prevented (and the browser becomes more secure).
Re:If only... (Score:3, Interesting)
Not all people are that good with HTML/Web terminology: AdBlock unfortunately use lots of it. It's okay for me. But my friend e.g. has whole bunch of extensions (a-la FlashBlock, NoScript) which in fact do what I do with AdBlock alone.
Re:If only... (Score:4, Informative)
It's called Filterset G [mozilla.org].
This in addition to Adblock plus keeps all ads out of sight without having to configure a single thing. No worries.
I highly recommend it to anyone and it's part of my default install for friends...
Re:If only... (Score:2)
And not everyone knows about the filtersets. And it's very accustomized to U.S. providers. E.g. I see quite much ads on German and Russians sites. And with filtersets installed, adding another rule is bit more difficult than with plain AdBlock.
Anyway, I use AdBlock for quite some time and my rule set is *very* long and kills *all* what *I* consider ad, not some other guys.
Re:If only... (Score:2)
I live in Germany myself and must say that it works great even for german sites.
Re:If only... (Score:2)
Re:If only... (Score:2)
www.myforumsite.example.com/forum/admin
www.myfilerepository.example.com/downloads
www.mycommunity.example.com/adduser.php
Re:If only... (Score:2)
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Re:If only... (Score:2)
The Hosts file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. This file is loaded into memory (cache) at startup, then Windows checks the Hosts file before it queries any DNS servers, which enables it to override addresses in the DNS. This prevents access to the listed sites by redirecting any connection attempts back to the local machine
Re:If only... (Score:3, Interesting)
I've also extended my own version of AdBlock to incorporate a new feature which I named relative-to-site blocking: you define what the "site" is with a regexp, a few special modifiers and filter non-matching content from it with a regexp. For example, the following rule:
##\dom##.*
Would block all content which is not coming from the domain currently in the status bar, so if you're surfing example.com images and javascript lin
Re:Share your Filter Rules? (Score:2)
Re:Share your Filter Rules? (Score:2)
Re:If only... (Score:2)
Re:If only... (Score:3, Insightful)
Exactly; if you want ad agencies to "get your message", try to actually block the ads you find annoying instead of blocking _all_ ads... if flash/dhtml ads get less and less views compared to "normal" banners, they will get the message...
Re:If only... (Score:2)
What if "your message" is "I hope you get the plague and die and take your kids with you for the sake of the gene pool?"
Re:If only... (Score:2)
What if "your message" is "I hope you get the plague and die and take your kids with you for the sake of the gene pool?"
Then you need a mental institute more badly than an adblocker...
improved updater (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:improved updater (Score:4, Informative)
This blog [blogspot.com] suggests that the issue your complaining about was fixed around a year ago.
Or perhaps I misunderstood your problem?
Re:improved updater (Score:2)
three extensions I cant live with (Score:1)
Re:three extensions I cant live with (Score:5, Funny)
Re:three extensions I cant live with (Score:3, Informative)
A bit staid? (Score:5, Interesting)
Anyone else find it a bit anticlimactic?
Re:A bit staid? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:A bit staid? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:A bit staid? (Score:1)
Re:A bit staid? (Score:3, Funny)
I thought the Separe extension was completely useless. If you really want to visually separate tabs, just open a new window and start fresh. That, or get glasses if you can't scan your tabs.
I suppose at some point FF extensions have to hit a wall for new and innovative things. Personally, I'm still waiting for the "don't use 300MB of memory" extension.
Re:A bit staid? (Score:1)
Re:A bit staid? (Score:2, Funny)
That's easily solved. Simply remove all but 256MB of RAM from your computer, and disable any swap space you had configured, and Firefox's memory usage will fall by at least 15%.
Re:A bit staid? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:A bit staid? (Score:3, Interesting)
Can anyone explain why a configuration daemon eats up 100M overnight? When I start it up, it only takes about 10M.
Re:A bit staid? (Score:2)
Re:A bit staid? (Score:2, Insightful)
Well one of the nice things about open source is that one idea tends to spawn other ideas, in other words IMHO it tends to be evolutionary rather revolutionary, perhaps this years winners will act as the catalyst(s) that lead to one or more extensions that give you that "wow" feelin'. Remember FireFox is still (relatively speaking) a young "platform" and there have already been quite
Re:A bit staid? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:A bit staid? (Score:2)
There's always the IE Developer Toolbar [microsoft.com] from Microsoft. It's Beta 2 (but stable on my machine - YMMV) and isn't quite as wonderful as the FF extension, but it's still pretty helpful when you're trying to work out what on earth IE thinks it's playing at.
Re:A bit staid? (Score:2)
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use password: funky0011-pass
Re:A bit staid? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:A bit staid? (Score:2)
I use it all the time.
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On a related note, Eclipse has the Ajax Tools Framework [eclipse.org] proposal that looks to be very promising for developers. I currently use Eclipse and the WTP for JSP/Struts development, and its excellent, but debugging javascript is still a pain.
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Platypus (Score:2, Interesting)
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Re:A bit staid? (Score:2)
I will say that the fact that both reveal and showcase seem dangerously similar, and even use the same access keys (which cannot be changed without modifying the extension's source) which seemed a bit dissapointing.
As a web developer, the web developer extension is probably my favorite feature of Firefox. If it came down to it, I would choose the web developer extension over tabbed browsing (but just barely). I wa
Re:A bit staid? (Score:2)
More than a bit. Someone above mentioned that they'd like to see something innovative which I agree with. (But then the other poster said gestures, which is a copy from Opera. I think copying innovation isn't innovation. Unless you're MicroSoft.)
I think the extension I've used most is blockfall. Most of the others that interest me I don't use - instead I use Proxomitron and Opera for those feat
Re:A bit staid? (Score:2, Informative)
Reveal is composed by 3 different features, and one of them is tab previewing, but you have search bar where you can "filter" thumbnails by their characteristics, and also show thumbnails of the history of that tab. Really, not similar to Expose or IE 7.
Showcase (which is the extension I developed) is not a copy of IE 7. The idea behind it was to be able to see tabs from windows other than the current one, so you can access them
Re:ironic (Score:3, Funny)
Thoughts (Score:2)
Nice (Score:1)
Ad Block is a sweet extension as well, very effective in getting rid of those annoying "oh so slow to load" flash ads that some cheesy web designers (ad execs?) seem to be in love with.
Rock on FireFox
FlashGot 0.5.9.993 (Score:2)
Great extension [mozilla.org] for Firefox...just don't sue them for Rhyming-Name Infringement
Re:FlashGot 0.5.9.993 (Score:2)
DANGER (Score:5, Funny)
Re:DANGER (Score:4, Funny)
Re:DANGER (Score:2, Funny)
My God! It looks like IE. Except that he actually deliberately installed all of those extensions and none of them are malicious.
Re:DANGER (Score:2)
Re:DANGER (Score:2)
It's the 100 most popular extensions on addons.mozilla.org, more or less. See the page those screenshots came from: The Superbrowser [splasho.com].
Re:DANGER (Score:1)
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Yes we do. (Score:2, Insightful)
Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer [nileshbabu.com]
Re:DANGER (Score:2)
Yay for scrapbook getting an award (Score:1, Informative)
If you do research on the web, you'll ask yourself how you were able to live without out, after you gave it a try.
P.S.: I know this sound like marketing babble, but I'm in no way affiliated with the scrapbook guys, I'm just a fanboy who really loves their work.
The winners are ... (Score:2, Informative)
Seeing as the linked page is useless to those of us running non-Firefox 1.5 browsers (Mozilla 1.7.12 here), I looked up the details of what the winners actually are, and thought I'd share ...
Grand Prize Category Winners:
I always wondered.... (Score:1, Redundant)
Re:I always wondered.... (Score:1, Offtopic)
I tried my hand at writing one myself, and got it to the point where I could talk to people and add contacts w/o any problems. It didn't do anything else and was super ugly, though. ^_^
Note About Opera (Score:2)
Re:Note About Opera (Score:2)
Yup, latest technology previews with thumbs, widgets, site prefs, etc. seem like Opera had their own internal extensions contest.
Site-sensitive user agent switcher (Score:2)
- For example I might want the switcher to automatically switch to IE7/XP while visiting my bank's site that expects IE.
- But I may want the switcher to automatically switch to Googlebot while visiting password-protected news sites so that I can go directly in.
Re:Site-sensitive user agent switcher (Score:1)
Re:Site-sensitive user agent switcher (Score:1)
Strict version compatibility (Score:2)
So... any chance for implementing
When Firefox doesn't have a feature you want... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Strict version compatibility (Score:2)
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Re:Strict version compatibility (Score:2, Insightful)
Web Developer (Score:3, Informative)
Just one datapoint, but it reinforces in my mind how important plugins (they're plugins, dammit! why are they pushing the term "extension"!) are to Firefox's success. Which, I guess, was the whole point of this contest.
Re:Web Developer (Score:2)
Because in the world of browsers, the term "plugin" has a specific meaning: a program that uses a specific API (the Netscape Plugin API) to display types of content (Flash animations, QuickTime videos, etc.) that the browser doesn't support natively.
Btw, you misspelled "?".
Criteria (Score:2)
Please use quotation marks for headlines like this (Score:1, Offtopic)
Mozilla Announces 'Extend Firefox' Contest Winners
As it is, I had to read it a few times. I kept stopping at the word "Extend" and wondering how to parse two consecutive verbs (Announces Extend).
I wish newspapers would get a clue and use quotation marks properly as well, but I digress.
Pawning off a racoon as a Firefox! (Score:2)
Re:Pawning off a racoon as a Firefox! (Score:2, Informative)
Firefox extensions I can't live without (Score:3, Interesting)
GooglePreview:
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
Venkman Javascript Debugger (for 1.5):
http://getahead.ltd.uk/ajax/venkman [getahead.ltd.uk]
Live HTTP Headers:
http://livehttpheaders.mozdev.org/ [mozdev.org]
Peter
Re:Firefox extensions I can't live without (Score:2)
Can't live without it.
Re:Firefox extensions I can't live without (Score:2)
Re:Firefox extensions I can't live without (Score:2)
But users of other browsers can't read about them (Score:2, Interesting)
. Apparently, the Mozilla addon site keys off the HTTP_USER_AGENT, and modifies the results accordingly. Except that if your goal is to persuade other people to switch your browser, or at least inform them about it, shouldn't you let users of other browsers at least read about its features?
FWIW, if I use the search function (searching in extensions) from Galeon, the results returned
Best Developer Extension, by far: (Score:2)
Unlike some other (poorly implemented) AJAX extensions (/greasemonkey plugins) I've seen, this shows complete responses and requests, as well as any javascript errors in-page. This is of enormous value when debugging clientside scripts: usually you only notice a bug when it's causing a page to break. This extension shows any and all errors, regardless of whether they interrupt your pageview.
CookiePie 0.5.4 Firefox Extension (Score:2, Interesting)
Another Linux death knell... (Score:2)
The Grand Prize, an Alienware computer, runs Windows:
Powered by Windows XP operating systems, the Aurora 7500 provides unparalleled compatibility with hardware, software, and peripheral devices.
So Linux isn't ready for the desktop, it's not fit for education, and now they can't even give it away. Firefox confirms, Linux is dying!
(it's funny, laugh)
Broken site? (Score:2)
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
Does that URL work for anyone? The same goes for every other id=
Extension wish list (Score:2)
Re:Memory Leak (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Memory Leak (Score:2)
And, BTW, Firefox developers never, ever, lied and said that Firefox doesn't leak memory -- they merely pointed out that the greater memory use many users are seeing in Firefox 1.5 is largely attributable to the new bfcache.
Re:Memory Leak (Score:2)
Re:Memory Leak (Score:1)
Re:Memory Leak (Score:2)
The memory leaks are being addressed, with dozens fixed since Firefox 1.5 was released. You can try Firefox 1.5.0.2 when it comes out and see if you still experience problems or not.