Tools for Surfing Porn with Firefox

October 21, 2005 8:13 PM

Tools for Surfing Porn with Firefox. My fav: the PaNIC extension which "hides porn quickly."
posted by JPowers (26 comments total)

heh heh, heh heh, you said PORN
posted by newfers at 8:41 PM on October 21, 2005

The description of the PaNIC extension brings back ancient memories: in the late '80s there was a memory-resident DOS utility (can't remember the name, let's call it "LOOKBUSY") that would instantly display a spreadsheet when you hit a hotkey combination.
posted by Creosote at 8:42 PM on October 21, 2005

Quite possibly the single most useful link ever posted to MetaFilter.
posted by Dr. Wu at 9:17 PM on October 21, 2005

What is this flapping sound I hear?
posted by nostrada at 9:33 PM on October 21, 2005

Very appropriate that is was posted on a Friday night.
posted by tirebouchon at 9:51 PM on October 21, 2005

Creosote writes "in the late '80s there was a memory-resident DOS utility (can't remember the name, let's call it "LOOKBUSY") that would instantly display a spreadsheet when you hit a hotkey combination."

YES! I remember using that! I think it was indeed called "LOOKBUSY".

I've seen something similar at the top right of pages on the web site Workopolis (a Canadian jobs site).
posted by clevershark at 10:09 PM on October 21, 2005

Just goes to show how porn still rules as one of the most powerful technology drivers.
posted by marvin at 10:16 PM on October 21, 2005

How to turn "Private Browsing" in Safari into "Porn Mode."
posted by fungible at 10:46 PM on October 21, 2005

These often let you find galleries similar to one you have open without using the keyboard. In other words, using only one hand?
posted by QuietDesperation at 10:48 PM on October 21, 2005

I highly approve.
posted by Jonasan at 11:04 PM on October 21, 2005

Redirect Remover
posted by mr.marx at 11:39 PM on October 21, 2005

It was amusing -- in the beginning "Pornzilla" was going to be a porn-optimized build of Mozilla. Once Firefox added the extensions architecture, they wisely redirected course.

And there were far more than just one "boss key" TSR.
posted by dhartung at 12:07 AM on October 22, 2005

The "bookmarklets" would be quite useless for the stated purpose, I assume, due to two reasons:

- they use javascript (now, who in any sane state of mind would leave Java/Javascript on when going to the wild wild bush?)
- my bookmark toolbar is full already.

Unless, that is, I missed something.
posted by Laotic at 1:36 AM on October 22, 2005

See also sexbyrss. Customisable porn RSS feed.
posted by nthdegx at 2:38 AM on October 22, 2005

Linky is a mozilla extension that does nifty things... like open all image links in a single tab.
posted by I Love Tacos at 3:18 AM on October 22, 2005

take-a-break.exe
posted by rxrfrx at 5:13 AM on October 22, 2005

I love how PaNIC's default action is to close down all your open tabs and open a new one containing a Google Search on "workplace productivity". If they could only get it to set off the firealarm, encrypt your hard disk, teleport you half a mile away and give everybody else selective amnesia the problem would be solved.
posted by rongorongo at 5:16 AM on October 22, 2005

Best. Post. Ever.
posted by [expletive deleted] at 5:36 AM on October 22, 2005

The author of PaNIC deserves the Nobel Prize for Software!
posted by substrate at 5:54 AM on October 22, 2005

And there were far more than just one "boss key" TSR.

Grammar SWAT, can we get a squad here? I need to know if it should be 'were' matched to 'far more than' as written or 'was' matched to 'just one "boss key" TSR'.
posted by cortex at 7:02 AM on October 22, 2005

The browser I used to use (Maxthon) had a feature I wish I could duplicate with Firefox - a hotkey combination (Ctrl-~) that fell under my left pinkie and ring fingers on my Northgate keyboard that instantly and completely hid the browser - including inside Task Manager.

Sweet.
posted by Enron Hubbard at 7:54 AM on October 22, 2005

Very appropriate that is was posted on a Friday night.
Singlele, perchance?
posted by TheDonF at 8:07 AM on October 22, 2005

I'm sorry, perhaps you actually meant to do this, but did you mean to tag this with porn and not poon?

I guess it's all the same.
posted by MrZero at 8:39 AM on October 22, 2005

Can they release Firefox with these extensions as a package and call it a "social browser" named Fap?
posted by jca at 10:37 AM on October 22, 2005

Porn. "It is inevitable. You go online, you eventually look for porn." - golden words said by a comedian, but I think these are the words bu of one of the smartest men ever. Will go and download pornzilla now.
posted by mediacurse at 4:01 PM on October 22, 2005

Look, stealther isn't even listed and it's the best. Leaves your regular cookies ect. untouched. No suspiciously blank 'recent' list at the top of your browser.
posted by IronLizard at 7:49 PM on October 22, 2005