Yeah, yeah http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/10/02/update-possible-vulnerability-reported-at-toorcon/

The bug-hunting reward  should be seen in light of how Bugzilla works and who they know are likely to find bugs. Those are busy people, developers, extension makers - nothing more than a pad on the back and probably more directed at delivering good documentation and follow up. Selling to spammers have nothing to do with reward.

I really dont think main stream media should put such security debates up on front page. They always twist it so it becomes a question of am I now safe using X or Y? Complete nonsense. Way too many eat it up and believe there is a direct link between a headline and internet security.

No-script = giving up if you use for what could be called "general safety", or dont dare enter internet without it enabled. The reason Firefox was made in the first place was certainly not to make user have to barricade them self, more like the opposite. Nothing to do with the extension but if it really was needed, in real life, you would have 2 browsers to pick between, Firefox would die very fast.

Chose view source in browser, then search for "mov" 

I had some trouble seeing them though - think some of them have gone 404/Bad request.

If you need a download manager and has the habit of saving videofiles try last freeware version of Net Transport http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page9.html#Net%20Transport

No no, but disable "Enhanced Prefetching" If you also diasale Page Load Timer there is not much reason to use it since these are the only original features. I have same settings but as entries in user.js = manual tweaking. Then you have to find settings, be sure they are correct etc. And if you delete user.js they are still active because in prefs.js - all this Fasterfox take care of. Should you uninstall then first chose Default preset, restart Firefox - then uninstall extension.

Well TBE is overkill for most but amazing. Practically all other tab extensions are inspired by it. Some say the same of TMP so... Too much of a good thing perhaps. "This extension strongly unrecommended. Tab Mix is recommended instead of this, because it is stable, light, and it covers most useful features of this." and "Virtually, now no one can update TBE codes, excluding me. Its codes are like as entwined spaghetti. Many unknown bugs are maybe there, many known problems (with unknown reasons) too." :) his own words, heh. He dont skip features thats for sure but not as bad as he says. An example could be sessionsaving. TMP can will not save content in forms or textareas like this Im writing in right now. TBE does that which makes it 10 times more complicated. TMP authors and the guy behind sessionsaving in FF 2.0 say so. Content is saved over and over. File monitor will show. TMP and 99 out of 100 users are happy with 99% restoration hit rate, TBE goes for 100.

Make a new clean profile if you want to test current TBE. "Current" might be a problem, I see latest is from March - may be he is preparing for FF 2.0. Usually it is updated much more often. Real use for this is probably for Seamonkey users, they can get modernized and dont have to envy Firefox. There is also Multizilla or something.

Think I mentioned TBE because the guy never really gets mentioned and obviously has been ahead of extension game for years https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/9480/author/ Possible those inspired by him have made "better" extensions.