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Firefox extension: CustomizeGoogle

The latest version of CustomizeGoogle is great. I particularly recommend the (currently ‘in beta’) “stream search results” feature. When you would normally reach the bottom of a page in Google, the extension appends the next page onto the bottom, so you’ll never have to click “next” again!

combobulate

Following the example set by the excellent hoodwink’d, here is a GreaseMonkey script. It grabs customized CSS/XPath expressions for the current page you’re on (currently only from my server, but you can edit that if you like). What does this mean? Ad-blocking via CSS and XPath on a per-domain basis, with no need to update [...]

Noogle, it’s Google Twogle!

Just like some other extensions but with less sneaky Amazon linkage, Noogle currently does the following: Adds thumbnails. Adds images and info from Amazon products. Removes the ads.

Firefox and IRIs

Continuing on my previous post on making Firefox conform to the IRI standard, here’s how to make your address bar look much nicer when visiting IRIs. Load up about:config, and change these values to: network.standard-url.escape-utf8 false network.IDN_show_punycode false Of course, this will leave you more vulnerable to domain-spoofing attacks, so I recommend using the IDN [...]