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[forsyth]

Man, why'd it take me so long to decide to get into engineering? Man.

Okay, two questions though. First, what Firefox addons/plugins do people use and have found handy? Is there one that works to post to LJ? I just installed PortableFirefox on a new thumb drive and want to make my life easier.

Also, does anybody have a suggestion for a good free (as in speech, not just as in beer) C++ compiler/linker/etc? Yeah, I could go download a free version of Microsoft's from their site, but dude, seriously. Especially hopefully one that's installable to a thumbdrive?

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[rev-tobias.livejournal.com]

I run a couple of Firefox extensions that I find absolutely indispensable:

- Adblock Plus (best adblocker I know)
- NoScript (used to selectively block or allow JavaScript by domain)
- Linkification (turns plaintext URLs into clickable links)

The following are no must-haves, but I also recommend:

- Forecastfox (weather report and forecast in the status bar)
- VideoDownloader (for capturing YouTube et.al. video)
- Wikipedia Lookup Extension (does just what it says)
- Resurrect Pages (retrieves copirs of dead pages from CoralCache et.al.)

I don't use any plugins that are specifically tailored for posting to LJ, but BBCodeXtra is a nice little extension that makes using both BBCode and HTML in text entry fields a lot easier.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Funny how the first addon everyone suggests is adblock.

Of course, the first one I went and downloaded was adblock, so.

Linkification should come in handy since David Brin never makes the URLs in his posts into links.