BugMeNot Firefox extension

Beat the nag­ging login screens at all those pesky sites that require free registration.

When you read NYT or Mer­cury Times or some such news site, they require a pesky free reg­is­tra­tion. Bug­menot has been a neat com­mu­nity ser­vice that allows users to bypass com­pul­sory web registration.

Now, how cool to not have to do any­thing but right-click in Fire­fox and retrieve the login info imme­di­ately?! The good folks at Roach­fiend seem to have done pre­cisely that. One nifty exten­sion this one.

In Fire­fox, just click on this link and the exten­sion will install auto­mat­i­cally. Next time you start Fire­fox, all you need to do is right-click inside the login form of the site that requires the reg­is­tra­tion, wait a cou­ple of sec­onds, and the form is auto­mat­i­cally filled! Here goes:

When you do this, and "noth­ing hap­pens", most likely Fire­fox has dis­abled the exten­sion from installing. You'll see a yel­low bar above this page then, which is a fea­ture of Fire­fox. Click on that bar and ALLOW the site Roachfiend.com in your list of Fire­fox allowed sites.

Enjoy! The Roach­fiend site has some other plu­g­ins, while you're at it.