Firefox Tips

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Extensions for Firefox

Available as Debian packages

Other cool ones

Themes for Firefox

Plugins for Firefox

Available as Debian packages

  • flashplayer-mozilla
  • mozilla-acroread
  • mozilla-mplayer
  • Java, cf SoftsUnderDebian

Anonimizing of your searches using BlackBoxSearch and CustomizeGoogle

For simple anonimization through a proxy use BlackBoxSearch. Mainly BlackBoxSearch anonimizes your searches by hiding your IP. Here is a greasemonkey script that makes the use of BlackBoxSearch automatic.

To obtain a complete solution you should regularly erase your favorite search engine cookies. If you are using Firefox and Google, this can be done automatically through the CustomizeGoogle extension. To do this you have to enable the privacy protection options of it.

References: Schneier Security blog: TrackMeNot

Extensions for Thunderbird

Available as Debian packages

  • mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail (http://enigmail.mozdev.org/) - OpenPGP message encryption and authentication
  • mozilla-thunderbird-locale-fr
  • Note that Thunderbird 1.5 contains already the "offline" extension but is only available in experimental repository as I write these lines...

Other cool ones

Dictionaries for Thunderbird

  • Don't try to install them as xpi, it won't work under Debian, instead, install the proper myspell package:
  • apt-get install myspell-en-gb myspell-en-us
  • That's all!
  • Don't worry if you get twice the dictionaries in Thunderbird, these are just aliases created by myspell.

Themes for Thunderbird

Misc

For those who develop websites and need interoperability with e.g. the awfully broken CSS interpreter of IE, you can install IE under linux with those scripts and wine:

wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.0.5.tar.gz