If you are a firefox user and use add-ons/extensions, one that you should be aware of is greasemonkey. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way web pages look and function. One handy script is "Folders4Gmail" which creates a folder hierarchy with labels.
Another is "remove all facebook ads" which removes banner ads as well as "sponsored" news feed and sidebar items from Facebook. These scripts may not seem very interesting at first but sometimes you can find one that you have been wishing for a long time. Greasemonkey allows you to truly customize the web how you want it.
Another is "remove all facebook ads" which removes banner ads as well as "sponsored" news feed and sidebar items from Facebook. These scripts may not seem very interesting at first but sometimes you can find one that you have been wishing for a long time. Greasemonkey allows you to truly customize the web how you want it.Recently on Steve Gibson's netcast Security Now, it was brought to Steve's attention by a listener that Paypal and Doubleclick have a bit of a unsavory relationship. If you click on certain links on Paypal's website, then you are routed through Doubleclick's servers and routed back through to Paypal's website. If you are security conscious, you understand what that truly means. If you aren't, then maybe you should check out Security Now at GRC.com. Nonetheless, the good folks at techlifeweb.com have created a script to strip out the doubleclick re-route from Paypal's links.
For those with GM already installed, Google "doubleclick greasemonkey", click on the TechLifeBlogged link "nodclick.user.js" and it will install into firefox immediately. Please note that scripts can be very malicious.
Be sure you trust any scripts you install! Scripts can be very malicious if written accordingly.
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