Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal Commentary Blogs -> Discourse.net

Legal Commentary

: Discourse.net

Why I'm Waiting to Install Firefox 3.5

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

I'm reluctant to upgrade to Firefox 3.5 because so many of my extentions are incompatible

Enabled Extensions: [28]

• Adblock Plus 1.0.2 - Ads were yesterday! PASS
• Auto Copy 0.9.7 - Copies selected text to the clipboard automatically. Like Linux or mIrc. 3.1
• Better Gmail 2 0.8.1 - Enhances Gmail with a compilation of useful features written by Greasemonkey user script developers. All scripts copyright their original authors. Click on the script homepage in the Help tab for more information. 3.0
• Better GReader 0.6.1 - Enhances Google Reader with a compilation of user scripts and skins. PASS
• BetterPrivacy 1.29 - "Super-Cookie Safeguard" Unclear
• CoLT 2.4.4 - Makes it easy to copy link text and locations. Unclear
• CookieSafe 3.0.5 - Control cookie permissions. PASS
• CustomizeGoogle 0.76 - Enhance Google search results and remove ads and spam. PASS
• FlashGot 1.1.9.6 - Enables single and massive ("all" and "selection") downloads using the most popular external download managers for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and FreeBSD (dozens currently supported, see Extension's Home Page for details). FlashGot offers also a Build Gallery functionality which helps to synthetize full media galleries in one page from serial contents originally scattered on several pages, for easy and fast "download all". PASS
• Gmail Manager 0.5.7.2 - Gmail accounts management and new mail notifications. PASS
• Google Redesigned 0.3 - A complete redesign of popular Google services.PASS
• IE View Lite 1.3.4 - Cut down version of IE View by Paul Roub. PASS
• Java Console 6.0.13 Why is this still here? How do I get rid of it?
• Java Console 6.0.14 ???
• Java Quick Starter 1.0 ???
• Map This 0.3.1 - Get map for a selected address PASS
• Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.1 - Adds ClickOnce support and the ability to report installed .NET Framework versions to the web server. No idea.
• MR Tech Toolkit 6.0.3.3 - MR Tech Toolkit power tools for all users. (en-US) PASS
• No Squint 1.93.2.1 - Manage site-specific full page and text zoom levels PASS
• NoScript 1.9.5 - Extra protection for your Firefox: NoScript allows JavaScript, Java (and other plugins) only for trusted domains of your choice (e.g. your home-banking web site). This whitelist based pre-emptive blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even unknown!) with no loss of functionality… Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript :-) Unclear
• Resizeable Textarea 0.1d - Resize textareas to your needs. 3.1b3
• ScrapBook 1.3.3.9 - Helps you to save Web pages and organize the collection.3.0 (Dealbreaker!)
• Searchbar Autosizer 1.4.1 - Expand the searchbox as you type 3.0
• Stealther 1.0.6 - Surf the web without leaving a trace in Firefox. 3.0
• Tab Mix Plus 0.3.6.1.080416 - Tab browsing with an added boost. 3.1b2pre (eh?)
• Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out (TACO) 1.8 - Sets permanent opt-out cookies to stop behavioral advertising by 84 different advertising networks, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, all members of the Network Advertising Initiative, and many other companies. PASS
• Update Notifier 0.1.5.4 - Notifies you when updates are available for your extensions and themes. 3.0
• Xmarks 3.1.0 - Bookmark Sync and Web Discovery PASS

Note: the above is for my laptop; I'm afraid there are even more on the desktop...

Full post as published by Discourse.net on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).