“Pre-emptive strike.” was penned precisely on 2 October, 2005 08:18 PM, which happened to be a Sunday. but you know what? dullneon.com's random notes has now moved to a new location.
Joen (and his band of merry commenters) discuss essential extensions for Firefox 1.0. But no one seems to have mentioned the weapon of mass JavaScript destruction that is the NoScript extension. It aggressively blocks all Javascript on any page unless you tell it not to. Highly recommended for the highly paranoid.
this was published on 2 October in the year 2005, which was a Sunday. anyway, all this is old and archived. everything has been now been moved, so head on down to the revamped almost daily random notes (unless of course you like this old stuff too much to part with it).