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4 December 2007 7 Comments

Freakin’ Beacon Firefox Extension

I took the dive into Firefox extension development today whipping out an answer to the Beacon is broke sentiment that is popping up all over the net, including here on this blog. This extension puts a little icon in the status bar that lights up in blue when on a page using Beacon technology. In theory, this will help users make educated decisions about which sites to shop at, or rent games, movies or otherwise engage in activity with.

Get the details and install the extension here. And pass the word.

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Written by Aaron Brazell on December 4, 2007

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7 Responses to “Freakin’ Beacon Firefox Extension”

  1. Travis Seitler 5 December 2007 at 11:23 am #

    You, sir, are both brilliant and timely. :)

  2. blayman 5 December 2007 at 11:27 am #

    Thanks! It’s nice to know when you are being spied on by big brother.

  3. JT 5 December 2007 at 1:16 pm #

    Won’t work in the Firefox 3 Beta because “it doesn’t provide secure updates” was the error message I got.

  4. Aaron Brazell 5 December 2007 at 1:17 pm #

    It wasn’t built for FF3. In time, I will do that too, but the FF extension does say it is compatible only with 2.0.0.0-2.0.0.*. :)

  5. Marios Alexandrou 8 December 2007 at 5:13 pm #

    For those interested in just blocking Beacon 100% of the time you can install the Blocksites add-on and drop in the Beacon path ie. *.facebook.com/beacon/*

  6. Aaron Brazell 8 December 2007 at 6:48 pm #

    Doesn’t actually prevent partner sites from sending data though.

  7. FireFox 23 April 2008 at 12:21 am #

    Excellent work Aaron. I just installed it and let you know the results.