Tiny rant and more!

Does it bug anyone else that the Spread Firefox banners on Mindsay only come in the "With Google Toolbar!" flavor? I don't mind that Mindsay wants to make a little side cash from everybody's favorite search engine, but I also don't really want to support the Google Toolbar since I haven't used it since I stopped using Internet Explorer somtime in the late 90s. (Gasp, before Firefox even existed in the form you see it today.)

Is it really that much trouble to hit the Home button (because I know Google.com is your homepage) and make your search from there? Is it more difficult to press the F3 key in Firefox to search for your term and have it highlighted than it is to click the word in the Google Toolbar?

Enough about that. If you're using Firefox right now, open up a new tab and type "about:mozila" in the address bar and hit enter. I think that's left over from when it was called Phoenix....

In honor of version Firefox 1.5, I'm going to share with you some of my very favorite Extensions.

Text To Image is one bad ma'majama. You come a cross a link to a picture, it will replace the link with a preview of the picture it's linking to! That probably didn't make much sense, but it's rad.

AdBlock Best Extension Ever. This bad boy blocks ads, as the name implies. Come across an ad and right click your worries away...you can even set it to block images from an entire host if you wanted it to. It even can block Flash ads. You NEED this Extension. But you also probably already have it.

ForecastFoxFor when you're too lazy to go to weather.com, this lets you know the weather conditions at all times in your Firefox status bar.

GreaseMonkey with a side of Platypus : Together these form the ultimate in webpage customization. It allows you to take anything off any webpage (maybe you don't want to see the Google ads when you checking your Gmail or something), take 'em away once, Save the settings, and never see it again.

Redirect Remover: Sometimes links don't always go where you'd expect them to. And sometimes douchebags make money off your clicks after the decieve you. Protect yourself with this extension, it'll take away evil redirect code so you only go where you want to.

TabBrowser Preferences This one should have been closer to the top because you NEED this one as well. It allows you to further customize how tabs work, you can have everything always open in a new tab so you never have more than 1 Firefox window open. Good stuff.

That's all I've got for now. Check them out, let me know what you think. Or don't. It's your web. (not google's.)