What's in your Add-ons?

[Pirate Bill]

Originally Posted by Morrigoon

Tell me more about AdBlockPlus and Foxy Proxy, please... (linkies?)

Adblock Plus: You can subscribe to filters or create your own. It will then block ads on webpages. Makes web pages that are usually littered with crap just a bit more enjoyable. Also helps to speed up some pages since you don't have to wait for ads to download.

FoxyProxy: Lets you switch to a proxy on the fly without making changes in Windows networking. (Only Firefox will be using the proxy.) Supports SOCKS proxy (v4/4a & v5), if you know what that means and/or need it. You have to set it up for whatever proxy server you want to use. It doesn't come preconfigured.

My work blocks sites by DNS (using OpenDNS), but it blocks by category. (i.e. Photobucket gets blocked because it's File storage, Photo sharing) To get around such annoyances I use SSH to tunnel to my home router and FoxyProxy to use that tunnel for routing all Firefox traffic. I can turn it off and on only when needed. (Home bandwidth is slower so I don't want to use it all the time. Also, don't want to set off any alarms at IT.)

I also use this method on laptops when using unsecured wifi hotspots to keep people from sniffing my traffic. SSH is encrypted. Any sniffer just gets garbage.

Originally Posted by Andrew

I use Safari on my Mac.

Ok, you get a pass. I've heard good things about Safari on the Mac.