Firefox 20 - skip the SSL/TLS certificate error

As of Firefox version 20, the addon Skip-Cert-Error (which is a rewrite of 'MitM Me') doesn't work anymore. In fact there were some changes made in ffox in regards to the private-browsing-mode, which made the current 0.3.3 version incompatible.
Luckily the developer also has its own GIT-repository ...

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Show 'HTTP://' prefix in Firefox 7

..freshly upgraded to Firefox 7, but apparently the 'HTTP://' is gone in the addressbar. If you're looking under 'Options' to get it activated again, you're wrong. So quickly the steps to re-enable it again:

  • open firefox
  • browse to 'about:config'
  • search for 'browser.urlbar.trimURLs'
  • change the value ...
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