We have angels and devils living in our heads, and they're having a fight about Firefox.
"Firefox developers are brilliant!" say the angels. "We must support the grass-roots development community!"
We nod sagely in agreement.
"Sod that!" say the devils, "Look at this crap!" Today, friends, is a devil's day. Look at this crap!
1. Firesomething
Wouldn't it be great if, instead of 'Mozilla Firefox', the browser window used random names such as 'Firebadger', 'Spacebeagle' or 'Hypnotoad'? Er, no, which is probably why developers Cosmic Cat haven't bothered to update Firesomething for Firefox 3.
2. Numpad Typing Drills
"Learn touch typing of the numpad keys" with this add-on - or just, y'know, type in lots of numbers. That works too. Numpad Typing Drills is well-intentioned, but we can't help feeling it's a little bit pointless. And by "a little bit", we mean "completely".
3. Homeland Security Threat Level
Is it time to panic yet? Find out instantly with Homeland Security Threat Level, which shows the current US Homeland Security Threat Level in the status bar. Maybe someone could make a version with Sarah Palin carving the threat level on the side of a moose.
4. Tom Green Live
Is Canadian comedian and TV personality Tom Green broadcasting? On the internet? Right now? Who cares?
5. Smart Stop/Reload
Smart Stop/Reload: because having separate stop and reload buttons is such a pain.
6. TrackMeNot
Controversial, this one: it's designed to hide your search activities by sending randomised queries to all the major search engines. Fans say it's necessary, but critics point out that it makes your browser act like malware. Google for one doesn't like it - and let's face it, few people's searches are interesting enough for anybody to bother reading them.
7. MC Chris Website Menu Navigation
Fans of nerdcore rapper MC Chris rejoice! Now you can easily access MC Chris things on the internet by, er, having a menu of bookmarks. All hail our site-specific toolbar menu overlords!
8. Calculator
There's a calculator in Windows. There's a calculator in OS X. There's a calculator in Linux. Which raises two questions: why do you need this? And what websites are making you do sums?
9. STOP! In the name of love
From the mind that brought you STOP! Hammer Time! - which played MC Hammer whenever you hit the Stop button - now comes STOP! In the name of love! Guess what it does. Go on. Guess.
10. Traduku
How many times have you thought "blimey, wouldn't it be great if I could translate text into Esperanto, the well-intentioned 'universal language' that only people with beards use?" That's right. NO TIMES.
Props to Digg user Akuma who suggested a list of lame Firefox extensions in a discussion about our 25 essential Firefox add-ons for power users article over on digg.
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arimannis
October 29th 2008
9. Tom Green plugin is awesome if your a Tom Green fan, his new show is pretty swell.
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amikema
October 29th 2008
8. Even though I have been having to put up with unsightly facial hair ever since I learned Esperanto, I still think it is well worth my time and effort!
Love,
Martha ;)
BTW, I use Esperanto every day, as a translator, it's the ideal bridge language for translating text between two unusual language pairs.
www.GrupoAmikema.org
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lox
October 29th 2008
7. Thanks for the lead about the Esperanto-translation add-on. I rushed right over and became the 16,162nd user to download it. I had already translated my s-f romantic comedy novel to Esperanto: The Me Clone / La Mi-Klono (available in HTML online or free download, with parallel English and Esperanto versions. http://www.genekeyes.com/MC-MK/MC-MK-U-Contents.html
But this add-on will be helpful for other things and web-pages I may want to translate in a jiffy.
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mankso
October 29th 2008
6. >wouldn't it be great if I could translate text into Esperanto, the well-intentioned 'universal language' that only people with beards use?
It is and I can - in fact I have used it successfully for 55+ years, and most of my daily e-mails are in Esperanto. Not sure what you mean by 'universal language', but 'universal bilingualism' [YOUR ethnic language + non-ethnic Esperanto for everybody] is actually the point. And I have never had a beard, nor have most of the female Esperanto-speakers I know. Perhaps a closer look might be in order?
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paullie
October 29th 2008
5. okay stewsofdoom and pdorcas, you guys are idiots, do the whole internet a favor and go jump off a building. PLEASE FFS JUST KILL YOURSELF.
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stewsofdoom
October 29th 2008
4. I don't think combining the stop and reload buttons deserves to end up on such as list, though I prefer a different extension for it (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/313). They're two buttons that don't need to be shown at the same time -- no matter what the state of page, one of them is wasting space on the toolbar that could be put to better use (such as bookmarks or navigational buttons).
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