Ok.. I really like my larger monitor.. but now that I have Old Guy Eyes it’s tougher to comfortably read everything on this screen now that the stuff is so small at this higher resolution.

I switched back to Firefox browser recently and use the noscript addon.. now I’ve found my 2nd favorite one.. nosquint!  Let’s me set the text and image zoom level for each site and remembers those settings.  You can make a zoom level the default for all pages if you like.. something you can’t do in Firefox by itself.  I usually keep the images set to normal 100% and bump up just the text to 120%.  Keeps things from looking stretched, fuzzy etc but makes the text readable on this 22″ monitor for my aging vision.

3rd favorite addon? Xmarks.. hands down.  The ease that we can all synchronize all our bookmarks (remember.. four kids and four computers) across all the rigs and all the browsers is so nice.  Have access to your bookmarks from anywhere online too at the xmarks.com website too.

Others I like are Personal Menu to get rid of the menu bar.. Mouse Gestures even though I only use like 2% of it.. and Read It Later.

John A. here’s the link to the correct Recount.

All you aspiring Deathknights should check out Runewatch addon.. cool looking replacement for your rune frame.  Has a slightly sinister look to it and it will show timers on each rune, runic power and a disease tracker.  There’s a little different skin you can apply for frost, blood, unholy look along with different rune graphics (or custom ones you create) and a minimalistic version too.  I’ll be having it load for all our DK’s. =)

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WoW Ace Updater will be going bye bye soon.  I’m sorry to see it go but I understand why they aren’t going to continue it’s use.  Wowace.com had huge bandwidth bills due to massive use of the updater they developed for all the ace addons in their repository.  Thousands of dollars a month worth of bandwidth they say.  Curse.com had been ponying up money for months for wowace.com’s BW bills but will no longer do so.

A couple of the main developers at WA have been employed now by Curse and the Curse Client updater is coming along people have said.  It’s not there yet though apparently.  I’ll find out soon I guess.  There is no way to install without externals yet though.  That means for each addon you have to install (and WoW has to load) all the code libraries that the addon uses.. many of them over and over and over as many addons share the same libraries.  WAU allowed users to only install and load into wow each library only once, saving a lot of WoW booting up time.  I sure hope that the Curse client will include that option too.

Another option is wowmatrix.. I’m a little more inclined to trust Curse’s client than wowmatrix but meh, I haven’t looked into much yet.  I did find something I found funny though on wowmatrix’s “safe-computing” page about how to protect yourself from people trying to infect/keylog you.. one of their nuggets of wisdom..

“visiting a website that prompts you to install a program that could contain a keylogger or spyware…”

Isn’t that exactly what they are asking you to do?  They certainly wouldn’t have a virus/trojan/keylogger in their executable because they say they don’t and are warning you that somebody else might try to do that in the exact way they are.  Aaah I love the smell of irony in the morning.