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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
4wd:
A lot of tracking between sites is also done through the HTML referrals, which is where RefControl comes in.
If you set it to Forge then it uses the URL of the destination site as the referrer, is. the request appears to be coming from within the site itself.
In the 1+ years I've been running it I think I've got less than 10 sites whitelisted to send Normal referrer. These are usually login pages that are on the same server but use a different sub-domain.
Curt:
* BehindTheOverlay - removes those dark overlays that obscure your view of webpage content. :Thmbsup:-IainB (February 27, 2015, 09:20 AM)
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two better links:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/
https://github.com/NicolaeNMV/BehindTheOverlay
One of my fav pages is using black overlays too often for my (lack of) patience. So, thanks for informing!
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It didn't work on this "old" Firefox 23 - even with forced compatibility.
MilesAhead:
Hmm, I hope it doesn't go the way of MaxThon with only the few writing extensions:
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing-safer-experience/
Deozaan:
Hmm, I hope it doesn't go the way of MaxThon with only the few writing extensions:
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/02/10/extension-signing-safer-experience/-MilesAhead (March 16, 2015, 02:28 PM)
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I was nodding my head in agreement with their reasoning, thinking it would be much like the Google Play Store, until I got to this part:
After the transition period, it will not be possible to install unsigned extensions in Release or Beta versions of Firefox. There won’t be any preferences or command line options to disable this.
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So, for my own good, you're not even going to allow me to override your decision and install whatever software/extensions I want on my own machine?
How does an open source group even come to a decision like that? How is that open?
Curt:
There will be a transition period of two release cycles (12 weeks total) during which unsigned extensions will only generate a warning in Firefox.
After the transition period, it will not be possible to install unsigned extensions in Release or Beta versions of Firefox. There won’t be any preferences or command line options to disable this.
Installation of unsigned extensions will still be possible on Nightly and Developer Edition, as well as special, unbranded builds of Release and Beta that will be available mainly for developers testing their extensions.-all of the paragraph
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