So thanks to a commenter on Aja’s LJ I discovered Ghostery, a Firefox add-on to increase your privacy by controlling tons of ‘invisible web’ scripts and trackers.
I installed it, and it reminded me I’ve often also wanted to post about LOS cookies, and the add-on Better Privacy, which enables you to wipe them out.
Then I thought I should make a list of the other FF add-ons I use, because, why not? I’m not going to put the links in, but google will find them for you in a jiff.
This list is from my install of FF 7 on the Mac, ie the cleanest/smallest list of all my FF installs. I still mourn Wordcount+ and Aardvark something fierce, and I haven’t (yet?) installed Scrapbook on Ariadne.
- Adblock Plus
- Boomerang for Gmail (haven’t yet used it, though)
- Diigo toolbar (will probably uninstall in the next 6 months)
- Evernote Web Clipper
- Greasemonkey (daily use for LJ, Pinboard, Dinosaur Comics etc)
- NoScript (lifesaver)
- Pinboard
- Read It Later
- Session Manager (lifesaver)
- Tab Mix Plus (lifesaver)
- Xmarks (browser bookmarks sync across platforms/browsers/machines)
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