I Make Your Pathetic Life Worth Living
Not just the best Firefox extension ever but the crowning achievement of human evolution, the bugmenot extension for Firefox. What does it do? It puts a “bugmenot” option in your context menu when you right-click on a user/password field on an Establishment Media Enterprise (”EME!”) website. Click it and the extension goes to BugMeNot.com, finds registration info for that site and fills it in for you. You no longer have to open a separate tab, key in the EME url, copy and paste the user id and copy and paste the password to read a flipping article.
This. is. the. shit.
Comment by Realish —
June 26, 2005 @ 11:55 pm
I’ve had the bugmenot extension for almost a year now, but there’s been a sudden rash of posts and articles about people discovering it. I wonder what’s behind it — no doubt a huge corporate PR push!
While on the subject, don’t forget the other crucial Firefox extensions: Adblock, mouse gestures, and tabbrowser preferences. Of course I have about 30 others intalled, but I don’t want to, you know, get all geeky on you.
Comment by SomeCallMeTim —
June 27, 2005 @ 12:16 am
I do love BugMeNot, but the best extension, to my mind, is either the spellchecker or Dict.
Comment by Gary Farber —
June 27, 2005 @ 1:37 am
Um, using it for about a year. Also cool: modems.
Comment by Jim Henley —
June 27, 2005 @ 7:54 am
Gary, yes. You have done well, however unwittingly. Now I choose to share the fruits of your testing with the world. It is a noble purpose you have served. Modems are so twentieth century though.
Comment by Evan —
June 27, 2005 @ 11:52 am
Jim, you make my pathetic existence more annoyed and shortened in duration by about 30 minutes. I’ve always hated subscription sites, so I jumped at your suggestion.
Next time I started up Firefox, bliggedy-BLAM! Nothing. The application process would start up, and hang there taking up 12-15mb of system memory, but the application wouldn’t start. I uninstalled, reinstalled, same shit. Finally I had to get rid of my extensions, chrome and cache folders, and I got it to work again…and 20 minutes later, I have now re-downloaded most of my old extensions and themes.
Thanks fer nuthin! I know it’s not your fault, just had to vent, and warn everybody else: this extension just may crash FF v1.0.4.
[just for the record, I have a brand new top of the line Dell with XP, less than 2 weeks old...so it's not like I was trying to run it on an old Commodore 64 or anything.]
Comment by Jim Henley —
June 27, 2005 @ 4:38 pm
Evan: Oops! Sorry. No such problems here, but I of course validate your own experience as true and relevant. I hope everything’s working again.
Trackback by The Agitator —
June 28, 2005 @ 4:55 pm
Cool Stuff I Discovered Via Jim Henley
The BugMeNot Firefox extension. Download it, install it, then right click on the password field of any major newspaper site…