From mikerrtx at yahoo.com Wed Jul 16 08:01:54 2008 From: mikerrtx at yahoo.com (Mike Goggin) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:01:54 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [Internet SIG] Firefox 3 and Extensions Message-ID: <680886.44437.qm@web35708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> I reckon it would likely look bad that the Internet SIG leader hasn't upgraded Firefox to version 3 yet! But I'm leery about the compatibility of the extensions I have installed, especially after so many of the ones I had broke when I moved from FF 1.5 to 2.0. If you have upgraded, I would like to hear about your experience. Thanks, Mike -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.theccwizards.com/pipermail/internet/attachments/20080716/0550e018/attachment.html From sdavol at austin.rr.com Wed Jul 16 09:56:13 2008 From: sdavol at austin.rr.com (Steve Davol) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:56:13 -0500 Subject: [Internet SIG] Firefox 3 and Extensions In-Reply-To: <680886.44437.qm@web35708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <680886.44437.qm@web35708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20080716145620.FWRH2298.hrndva-omta02.mail.rr.com@SCD-PC.austin.rr.com> Mike the only extension that I have noticed that has not been updated in v.3 is the "Print Preview" option from right clicking. I can still get a print preview through "Edit". Small matter. And I probably only have about 5 - 10 extensions anyway. Steve At 08:01 AM 7/16/2008, you wrote: >I reckon it would likely look bad that the Internet SIG leader >hasn't upgraded Firefox to version 3 yet! But I'm leery about the >compatibility of the extensions I have installed, especially after >so many of the ones I had broke when I moved from FF 1.5 to 2.0. If >you have upgraded, I would like to hear about your experience. > >Thanks, >Mike >_______________________________________________ >Internet mailing list >Internet at ccaustin.org >http://www.theccwizards.com/mailman/listinfo/internet No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.138 / Virus Database: 270.5.0/1555 - Release Date: 7/16/2008 6:43 AM -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.theccwizards.com/pipermail/internet/attachments/20080716/8ce9d706/attachment.html From djbbrown at charter.net Wed Jul 16 13:31:23 2008 From: djbbrown at charter.net (DJ Brown]) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:31:23 -0500 Subject: [Internet SIG] Firefox 3 and Extensions In-Reply-To: <680886.44437.qm@web35708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <680886.44437.qm@web35708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hi Mike: I was REALLY been upset to see that Bookmark Sync & Sort was not upgraded to FFv3.0. In fact, I delayed upgrading because this and the Zotero add-ons weren't available. Recently, though, Zotero *has* been updated and there's a new toolbar available that shows a LOT of similarities to the Bookmark Sync & Sort add-on. Specifically, the new Ubimarks Toolbar allows us users to store and use our own bookmarks and to update a central bookmark store on one computer (for multiple users) or on a website (via WebDav or FTP) whether it be your own or somewhere else. I really liked the "store them where *YOU* want them" and auto-update features and thought I'd lost them. Why? well, I don't see that Foxmarks or any other online service needs to know what *MY* personal bookmarks are - much less the marketing information this data generates for them. Unfortunately, it's still in development so your mileage (& satisfaction) may vary but I'm willing to work with it to see what may come in future. Annotea.Ubimarks Toolbar http://www.annotea.org/mozilla/ubi.html Bookmark Sync & Sort: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2367 The other cool item I found in the process is BetterPrivacy, a security item to combat the new marketing threat caused by FlashPlayer's hidden perma-cookies. The new ".SOL" files get stored in the Window$ $ystem folders where we can't get at them easily, and normally, can't delete or manage them either. Most folks don't know about this new perma-cookie, and the usual "cookie management" utilities in FF and other apps aren't aware of this class of "market constituent identifier" (my own sarcastic term). BetterPrivacy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623 What the heck are Flash Cookies anyway? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Shared_Object The NettiCat author's web page on it: http://netticat.ath.cx/BetterPrivacy/BetterPrivacy.htm DJ Brown ____________________________ aka: Speaker2Software Windows SIG Staff Office SIG Staff Computer Club of Austin www.CCAustin.org ____________________________ No computer is an Island, entire of itself; each one is a piece of its owner, a part of its operator; if a chip be fried by the coffee, Mankind is the less, as well as if a file goes corrupt, as well as if the hard-drive crashes or the Internet goes down; any computer's death diminishes me, losing forever the precious memories we entrust to it; And therefore, never send to know for whom the computer crashed; It crashes for thee. ~~with apologies to John Donne ____________________________ From: internet-bounces at ccaustin.org [mailto:internet-bounces at ccaustin.org] On Behalf Of Mike Goggin Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 8:02 AM To: CCAustin-Internet Subject: [Internet SIG] Firefox 3 and Extensions I reckon it would likely look bad that the Internet SIG leader hasn't upgraded Firefox to version 3 yet! But I'm leery about the compatibility of the extensions I have installed, especially after so many of the ones I had broke when I moved from FF 1.5 to 2.0. If you have upgraded, I would like to hear about your experience. Thanks, Mike ________________________________