@DevourerKwi: I also used to do this anywhere I installed Firefox, so I'm glad it's now the default. The only place I can think of that benefits of not showing the tabs bar by default are very small netbooks, but that's it.

And thus ED, SED and (why not?) EDLIN are reborn!

@XGhozt: No, you're not. AdBlocking users are a minority among all Internet users. Unless you're running the NYT website, or something targeted at VERY tech-savvy users, this means you're at best losing a few dollars a month, if not mere cents.

@h3028: But how is that different from a malware infested website trying to install a standard extension?

@abhiroop: I'm Brazilian and thus speak Portuguese. I've also learned English, as you can see. I don't speak German, but I have (old) technophobic German-speaking relatives around here, as well as relatives in Germany who don't speak anything but German. Guess whose e-mail address both sides use to exchange messages…

@Rolcol: My guess is it's going to be in FF 4.0.

@Oranges w/ Cheese: Same here. And, man, how difficult it was to implement Windows' crispness in my Ubuntu box! I despise cleartype and similar techniques with a passion!

If this comes, I hope it'll have some automation for those of us who know different languages. As a native Portuguese speaker with some knowledge of Spanish, I would love for it to be able to automatically translate everything to English (the results are better than translations to Portuguese) unless the message is…

You joke, but I'd really like to see more love for Gopher, focused as it was (is?) on text-only document storage. For those terminal-focused, "less is more" people out there, it surely offers a very interesting alternative.

@Dan Jones: Same here.

I've tried this a few months ago with Firefox and Gmail. It was nice, but very slow. Every I looked at a label or the inbox, the addon went on background downloading ALL e-mails in that view to check them and add (or not) the icon. Change label view and go back? See downloads happening all over again.

@John W. Peterson: Well, the trick here is to use credit cards only as a convenient means of payment, not as a means for getting credit. In other words, to ALWAYS pay the full amount, every single month, without exception. I have 3 cards (a MC, a Visa and an Amex) and nowadays I never ever have problems with them…

Here in Brazil this technique would allow you to reduce your interest rate from 490% to about 330%, provided you're lucky. (Yes, you read those numbers right.)

@Billy O'Keefe: Before ad-blocker existed I never, ever, clicked an ad, simply because nothing advertised was interesting to me. Nowadays I have even less money than back then, so you can count on me still not clicking them anyway. Now, since websites only get revenue from ads that are clicked, I seeing them or not…

VOTE: Better Gmail 2.

VOTE: Unlocker

@b0yh0wdy: Another [NearlyFreeSpeec.net] customer here.

@delphine: That's because everyone, in almost all countries, learns a few words in English at school, so speaking a dumbed down version might work where proper grammatical constructs wouldn't.

@tgs3: Here in Brazil, specially in places with high concentration of foreign tourists such as Rio de Janeiro, it also works like Llubomir says. You'd be a target for robbery and maybe for a "flash kidnap" (meaning the bandits would take you to as many ATMs they could find, until your credit and debit cards were…

@Gonzie: They're becoming more open because that's what the market wants. It's basic offer/demand: if it helps profits, other things being equal, then they're all for it, otherwise not. Same applies to IBM, Sun, Google...