Spoofstick, a useful toobar

I'm taking that as a GOOD thing! I don't do much browsing at potentially "questionable" sites (at least I don't think I do! - maybe with SpoofStick I'll find out to the contrary), but once in a while friends of mine use my computer... they might be less particular than I, and who knows, SpoofStick might find something amiss in sites THEY're trying to look at. Of course I'd have to remember to explain the SpoofStick toolbar to them beforehand, wouldn't I...
Anyway, just on principle I'm glad I managed to get the thing installed!

 

I had an interesting experience, yesterday, when I went to pay a couple bills online. The first one was for the Discover card, and I used the usual discovercard.com. when I selected to pay, the You are changed to novusnet.com, which was also in the URL. Then, I went to pay my ATT Master card bill, and, a very strange URL came up. The site had not been completely loaded. So, I shutdown, empty cache, and deleted a couple of questionable cookies. I tried about half an hour later,with Moz1.7.3 , and everything went well. It does not matter too much what is in the URL, but the larger red display on gray of my Skypilot theme stand out. I never looked at the URL before. Whatever went on alerted me.
I am sorry to hear of all the problems encountered by Rebecca. I have FF0.9.3 installed, and FF1.0 from the unzipped file. I installed the extention from the website in FF1.0, from the downloaded .xpi final, using my unconventional way of drag/dropping the shortcut which was on desktop, into the FF1.0 shortcut. This process opened FF, and the usual install box came up. I closed FF, and the bar was there. I found out, much later that the spoofbar was present, also, in 0.9.3. I have two different profiles for the two browsers. After installation a spoofbar.jar was found in the profile Chrome folder. Anyway, one way or other, I have the spoofbar in every gecko-based browser of mine, with the exception of the 1.8a5 and 6, and Kmeleon.

 

Westside ...

I can't imagine having that many different combinations of browser/email clients, and I don't know how you keep them all straight. I want my system to be lean and clean, so there's only one installation of Firefox and one of Thunderbird. Because I can't get rid of IE, I use SlimBrowser (an IE shell) because of its features, but only when absolutely necessary.

Just out of curiosity, are you able to use the same profile with all of your gecko browsers?

Let me rephrase that ... how many different profiles do you have to maintain?

 

I have one profile for each browser, and each browser is installed in a directory of its own..
I can keep track of this very easily, and, after a while each profile has a life of its own. Why am I doing this? First of all, I have the time, secondly, you have seen some pretty lame questions which are posed here, at times. So I need to have the specific browser to answer the question. The differences are very surprising, at times.
One advantage is that I don't need to back up my bookmarks, address book or mail. But, I worked from the unzipped file, rather installed program, whenever I can. When I am done with the program I can just deleted the file, go on, and reuse the profile.

 

Actually, it shouldn't matter whether you use the installation method or the zipped method of updating, you should be able to use the same profile each time.

I installed each new version of Firebird, then Firefox, for months without changing profiles. Then, one day, I was going through "Add/Remove Programs" and found that I had half a dozen different versions of Firebird and Firefox listed. Now, unless the version number changes, I use the zipped updates.

I've also found that, every so often, it's not a bad idea to uninstall both FF and TB, and delete all of the various folders/files associated with them (except the profile folders, which I keep separated from the program files ... mine are located at E:\Userfiles\Mozilla\Firefox and \Tbird). I also use RegSeeker to go through the registry and remove all references to Firefox, Thunderbird, Tbird, and Mozilla. Then I reinstall the two programs, pointing their respective Profile Managers to the profile folders already mentioned. This has worked especially well since FF and TB did away with those cockamamy zxy49dp37.slt profile folders.