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Mozillia released Firefox 3 beta 5 a few days ago so I upgraded from the beta 4 release. Unfortunately the Adblock Plus addon has not been updated yet.

I’ve been using this addon for so long and have it installed whenever I install Firefox on a computer that I’ve completely forgotten just how many annoying adverts there are on many web sites I visit. On top of that they slow down my browsing while I wait for some massive Flash movie to load or some other useless ad.

It’s so bad that I’ve actually gone back to using Firefox 2.0.0.13 that I also have installed, just to avoid the ads. Of course now I have the problem that I’ve got so used to Firefox 3 betas that going back to Firefox 2 is also pretty hard…

If you want to use Firefox to access a corporate intranet then you will need to enable Windows Authentication. Simply enter about:config in the location bar and locate the following key:

network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris

Enter the domains you wish to access separated by commas. For example, if your intranet was located at http://intranet/ then you would just enter the value ‘intranet’ (without quotes).