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January 11, 2010 9:35 pm at 9:35 pm #672952

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Some more email responses I have received on this topic:

It should be noted that Firefox must be restarted after installing the plugins for them to have any effect. If you install the plugin and don’t see any changes right away, don’t fret.

WOT should be added to the list.

http://www.mywot.com/en/download/ff

WOT is a plugin that lets you know – before you even click a link – what type of a site you are potentially clicking through to.

It also blocks pages that have a very low reputation.

While this duplicates the behavior of many filters, it does it as part of the browser, it informs you before you click the link, and it can let you know things that filters dont (such as a vendor with a clean site but poor reputation.)

ImageLikeOpera makes browsing much much quicker.

Takes a few days to get used to it, but once you do, you will find yourself much much more productive.

It should be used by everyone (There’s a reason it comes with Opera)

Note: see my post above for instructions how to add filters to ImgLikeOpera

Image like Opera imitates a browser called Opera.

I believe that the other two plugins also come built into Opera as well, but need to be enabled.

I would not recommend Opera over Firefox at all, but if someone has a reason to not use Firefox, they can use Opera and achieve the same result.

Firefox is a far better browser than Internet Explorer, Opera, Chrome or Safari and should be used whenever possible.

Having nothing to do with this discussion of tznius – always use Firefox. Always!

None of the above replaces accountability and filtering software.

I fiddled with the idea of creating a filter using Google’s face recognition project and FF’s Canvas API for Greasemonkey or JetPack.

I never sat down to work on it, but if there are any insane coders in this group (Preferably from the C, Python, or SmallTalk families) that think such a challenge would be fun, contact me and we will hash out ideas.

If anyone is interested in contacting this guy, please contact me for info – Moderator-42

For those who use a site that requires Internet Explorer:

Coral IE Tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10909

This will allow to open Internet Explorer tabs from inside Firefox. Adblock will work even though you will be using IE!

(If people need to use IE I am willing to properly research all the options.)

For experienced Firefox users, a few AdBlock Plus plugins / alternatives:

* KarmaBlocker: Said to be better than Adblock, but more difficult.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5230

* DoGooder: Replaces blocked ads with ads for nonprofits. Does not use Adblock:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/54200

* Add-art: Puts in artwork where the ads used to be. Uses Adblock.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6846