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Top ten Firefox extensions

Here are my ten favourite Firefox extensions. Firefox is an excellent web browser, but its best features are the ones that aren’t included: the huge number of add-ons that can make this good application even better.

Nofollow is not as bad as you think

I wrote recently about why the worst thing about nofollow is its name. My response to Maxpower’s thought-provoking comment grew too long for the comments section, so here’s a slightly longer exposition of what’s wrong and right with nofollow.

Nofollow: good idea, bad name

I have never understood the furore that greeted Google’s introduction of the rel=”nofollow” attribute. It seemed to me to be a perfectly sensible way of specifying the provenance of hyperlinks on a Web page. However, many people took it to be Google’s way of penalising contributors to blogs and other interactive websites. Some even thought […]

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In the year 2014, The New York Times has gone offline. The Fourth Estate’s fortunes have waned.

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