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Alex Jones

I lead teams at the intersection of strategy and design. Autodidact. Polymath. Barbecue acolyte. I start fires (the good kind).

Technology

The Extensions Mirror

One issue I have every time I upgrade Firefox is the loss of some of my favorite extensions due to incompatibility with the new version of the browser. Preview Release 1 is no different. Luckily I stumbled upon a link to theExtensions Mirror which is much more up to date than the standard Mozilla extension site. Many of the extensions that are unavailable on on update.mozilla.org, are already available on this site. And they work perfectly well.

Note: There are a couple of areas on the site where you might find the Firefox extensions you are looking for:

The same holds true for Thunderbird:

Update: As noted in a comment on another post, there is another extensions mirror available: Hedonist-X

IE Users: Beware of JPEGs

Yet another reason to drop Internet Explorer and Outlook as your browser and e-mail clients: Microsoft has announced a serious vulnerability in the way it handles the most popular digital picture format. As stated in the previously linked, story from The Register, the hole “potentially allows an attacker to craft a special JPEG file that would take control of a victim’s machine when the user views it through Internet Explorer, Outlook, Word, and other programs. The poisoned picture could be displayed on a website, sent in email, or circulated on a P2P network.”

ListZilla

As a follow up to the preview release of Firefox, and my recommendation that you keep track of every installed extension in case the install goes awry (as it did for Pamela), I am posting a link to a new extension: ListZilla
which “Outputs either a plain text, vB code, or HTML file that lists all installed themes or extensions.” That sounds much easier than doing it by hand!

One note, the description says that it is only for current releases of Firefox, so I am not sure if it will work 0.8/0.9, or just the preview release.