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A lot of people are concerned about web cookies, identifying information set by websites and left on a person’s computer. Unfortunately many websites will simply refuse to work if cookies are blocked leading people to have to have a list of sites to allow cookies for, often defeating the purpose of protecting privacy while adding [...]

These extensions will speed up Firefox by blocking ads and flash content and by tweaking internal Firefox settings.

I’ve had to get java applets working in Firefox when using Ubuntu a couple of times recently; it’s easy to do but worth noting.