Spy blogs
We Need Spy Blogs, an Army officer calls for better information gathering. [Wired Magazine issue # 13.03]
How’d I Get Here (Firefox extension)
How’d I Get Here (high)? is a Firefox extension that allows you to go to the page on which you first clicked a link to the current page. say, for example, you want to go « back » even after opening a link in a new tab and closing the original tab, or you want to remember how you found a site you bookmarked yesterday, or better if you are sent a link you have already seen, you can astound the sender by responding with a statement more precise than « I saw that on some blog a few days ago ».
Send Referer – A Firefox Extension | labs.beffa.org
Send Referer is a ff extension which allows you to browse the web as usual, except that your browser won’t send referer header. When you come across a link you can’t follow without referer, right click on it and use « Open Link with Referer Header ». Sending Referer Header will be enable for 7 seconds and then it will go back to no referer mode.
Today’s ff extensions
lget 0.2, a good download manager. See also FlashGot, a manager for third party download managers, with Build Gallery functionality. Also Fasterfox, which allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay; Tab Mix Plus is a continuation of the TBP/TBE idea. It includes duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, … (includes a session manager with crash recovery, so a conflict with session saver .2 can be expected); DownThemAll lets you filter and download all the links contained in any web-page; Distrust hides the « surfing trails » that the browser leaves behind. it monitors FireFox for its activities and will remove history items cache and cookies that were used during the session.
Unified Back-/Forward Button 0.3.3 [Mar 11] – MozillaZine Forums
Unified Back-/Forward Button is a cute one-button-instead-of-two extension, but needs some job to be installed.
MacWarriors TrailBlazer
MacWarriors TrailBlazer solves the problem of getting back to a web page you’ve been to before, but didn’t have the forethought to bookmark. The current solutions provided by most web browsers, their history menu, is just a list of titles and web addresses which aren’t memorable enough to be useful. Reveal allows you to see thumbnails of pages in your session history and quickly find the page you want.
Mass Installer
Mass Installer allows to install a bunch of extensions with one single click (via). Use it together with InfoLister , Profile backup and -install-global-extension Command Line Option.
CGIProxy– HTTP/FTP Proxy in a CGI Script
This CGI script « acts as an HTTP or FTP proxy. Through it, you can retrieve any resource that is accessible from the server it runs on. This is useful when your own access is limited, but you can reach a server that in turn can reach others that you can’t. In addition, the user is kept as anonymous as possible from any servers. Common uses include: anonymous proxies similar to The Anonymizer, other personal uses, VPN-like functionality, and others. It’s very simple to install, and very configurable. »
Bitty Browser
Bitty Browser Configuration