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Posted by Hemos on Monday September 06, 2004 @08:37AM from the learning-more-about-it dept.

Gary writes "If you haven't made the switch to Mozilla Firefox it may be because you aren't aware of the great benefits Firefox has over IE. Flexbeta has posted a nice HOWTO guide on Firefox extensions; my favorite is the Target Alert extension which displays a small graphic next to links that are not web pages. For example a mailto: link will display a small envelope, a link to a PDF file will display a small Adobe icon, etc."

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Re:names (Score:3, Funny)

by Quo_R ( 734198 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @08:43AM (#10167863)

Dude, 2003 called, they want their joke back.

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Here's one benefit... (Score:5, Funny)

by proxy2 ( 156777 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @08:49AM (#10167905)

Firefox is the ultimate porn [squarefree.com] browser !

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Wanted Extension: (Score:5, Funny)

by tratten ( 783047 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @08:58AM (#10167957)

'Apply new extension without Firefox restart'-Extension

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What plugin is this? (Score:3, Funny)

by leomekenkamp ( 566309 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @09:00AM (#10167965)

There is a problem with the database that is preventing the site from working.

An email has been sent to the administrator notifying them of the problem. Please try again later.

Is this a direct effect of the slashddos plugin?

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Re:I haven't switched...my reasons are... (Score:5, Funny)

by The Grassy Knoll ( 112931 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @09:01AM (#10167971)

>my online baking site

Doh! (nut)

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Re:my most used extension ever... (Score:3, Funny)

by Jugalator ( 259273 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @09:28AM (#10168136) Journal

It even lets you edit CSS live on the web.

... to fix the colors on Slashdot IT once and for all?? :-)

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The waste (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @10:04AM (#10168364)

Is it possiple to have Firefox logging how much time I spend on Slashdot?

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Re:Target Alert not too useful... (Score:3, Funny)

by Mad Bad Rabbit ( 539142 ) writes: on Monday September 06, 2004 @10:36AM (#10168572)

Wouldn't getting the HTTP headers for every non-HTML file linked to on a web page be a bit bandwidth and processor intensive for an extension?

Yes, but how else can it detect and place a goat icon next to goatse.cx links?

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