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I'm in a new BzzAgent campaign; this one is for a Firefox add-on called Me.dium.  As far as I can tell, it's made for social web-browsing; install it, and you'll see what sites I'm visiting at the time, and vice versa (with privacy controls, of course), and we can talk while we browse.

I say "as far as I can tell" because I think it would be more obvious if some of y'all install it and give it a try WITH me.

Use this link and I'll automatically be listed in your Friends:

http://me.dium.com/from/15d60132

>< Goddamnit!

I installed Flash Player 8 and now Adblock seems to be blocking all .swf files (but won't admit to it).

I do NOT want to have to choose between Adblock and Flash.

UPDATE: Fortunately I don't have to. Here's a solution to the Flash 8 / Adblock problem.

I use the Firefox web browser and Greasemonkey, an extension that lets you tack on some useful additions.

My favorites:

NewsLinksToGoogleGroups converts news:// URLs so they point to Google Groups. (How many of us still have a standalone USENET News client?)

Password Composer is sheer brilliance. You only have to memorize one password for all the web sites you log into, only you can use a different password for each one. How? This script jumbles your password against the site's domain name in a way that is a bit tricky to unjumble. It's not military-grade password security, but if you insist on remembering just one simple password, you may as well use this to improve your security.

SkypeLinkify turns phone numbers into Skype links so you can phone someone with a simple click, for about 2.5c/min. Too cool. I'm already a Skype user, but if I weren't, this convenience might just convince me to start.