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A short list of Plugins i don’t want to miss on my boxes while using FireFox 3.

• AdBlock Plus - Most important Plugin ever for me. It blocks ads, based on a managed list and gives the user the option to add additional content to be blocked. I do sync with Cedric’s list which served me great the last 3 years
• CustomizeGoogle - Gives you the option to customize your google search results. In my case i get links to other search-engines, but the plugin offers more options then just that.
• FastDial - Fast access to your favorit pages through thumbnails
• Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer - Sync your browser favorits over the net. You need a free foxmarks account to use that
• (Mac) FireFox-Mac-PDF - Plugin displays PDF inside FireFox

Yeah, its a short list as i dislike having a list of 20 or 30 plugins in my FireFox installations. But those 5 plugins do offer the basic function i need in my daily working day.

Hooray.

I had a horrible bug/problem for several month now with firefox and flash.

embedded flash movies (i.e. from Youtube) were only shown if i almost scolled away from them. Seemed like the scroll-out action reanimated the flash-content each time.

Well as i haven’t found a solution for this issue i personally blamed Adobe for it…..but… i was WRONG.

Seems like this is a known issue of Adblock (Version 0.7.5.1 )

There is really no need to de-activate AdBlock (way to important for me).

Solution (at least for me and many others):

• Open Firefox
• Enter: about:config in the addressbar
• Use the filterlist to find this entry: extensions.adblockplus.frameobjects and change it to false
• Restart Firefox

Enjoy flash movies like you never did before hehe.

The article above list some other ideas, so if you still have the problem continue reading

Vladimir Vukicevic from the Mozilla Team has published an interesting article about Apple’s undocumented API functionalities.

Read the full article here.

A known problem for fireFox users:

• You want to search a foreign google page, but you always get redirected to your local google version

Example here:

• Local google = google.de
• Target google = google.com

One of many possible solutions i found in the web:

1. Open FireFox
2. Enter: “about:config” in the address bar
3. Select a random entry and right-click it
4. Select “New” -> “String”
5. Enter: “keyword.URL”
6. Enter: “http://www.google.com/search?q=”
7. Restart Firefox

Result is as follows:

• If you Enter the searchphrase in the Firefox search-engine-field you will goto your local google
• If you enter your searchphrase in Firefoxs address bar and press enter you will visit google.com

good & easy hack i think.

Greetings
fidel

Just a short listing about web-browsers i found for OSX.

• Safari (Appls build in)
• Camino
• FireFox
• Opera
• SeaMonkey (Ex-Mozilla)
• OmniWeb
• Netscape
• Shiira

I havent tested all of them, but from my point of view

• Firefox is just great and my main browser, cause of the big amount of extensions / plugins and much more.
• Shirra has some good features like expose like view but was not that stable while my testing-time.
• OmniWeb - small and good browser
• Camino - a really great browser
• Safari - ugly as hell, but i guess you already know that

Finally my personal two favorites: camino and firefox

Der freie Webbrowser “Firefox” hat einige netten Funktionen über die ich gerade gestolpert bin.

Ein sehr direkter Zugriff auf bestimmte Suchdienste. Wer desöfteren, wie ich, die Seiten Dict.Leo.org oder de.wikipedia.org besucht kennt sicherlich schon den Weg des zusätzlichen Suchmaschinen hinzufügens.

Schön und gut in der Theorie, hat aber den Nachteil dass ich immer erst mal umswitchen muss.

Leichter geht es so:

Man übergibt Firefox in der URL-Leiste ein Schlüsselwort und den eigentlichen Suchbegriff.

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