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NoScript is a great extension. It blocks JavaScript from running on websites unless you explicitly allow it to run. Of course it ’ s packed with features like the ability to whitelist websites and to allow sites to run scripts temporarily . It also blocks certain types of dangerous script attacks even if you ’ ve decided to trust a website. Considering I ’ ve heard tell that this year will be a bigg i e for attacks via websites, cross-site scripting and suchlike, this is a browser extension that no Firefox user can afford to be without. I am however a great lover of things that do things for me J And I ’ d love to see integration of a predefined blacklist, or a choice to enable/disable such a list (or lists). This way I ’ d be warned in advance of a site that was a known offender, and wouldn ’ t fall prey to the desire to simply temporarily allow the site to run scripts so I could “ get my content ” if you see what I mean. What I mean is, NoScript blocks script...

I just updated by Firefox plugins, of which I have a healthy number (or rather an unhealthy number), and I could help but (yet again) notice that the extension Download Statusbar is pretty BIG. It ’ s about ~650kB. That ’ s more than half a meg. Surely this little baby could be reduced in size? I refer to it so lovingly because it really is a fab extension. Just simply showing you the status of the download as a progress bar in Firefox ’ s status bar. It shows speed and size, and lets you open the download with a double-click. Nice job. Could it be made smaller ?

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BlogThis, the original Firefox Extension for Blogger, doesn't work with Firefox v2.0 On Phil Ringnalda's blog there's an article about the BlogThis Firefox Extension. There's also a comment that explains how to update the BlogThis extension so that it works with Firefox v2.0 I've done the update as per the explanation, and installed the BlogThis extension successfully in Firefox v2.0.0.1 Here's the modified extension... blogthis.xpi