Wallflower stops sites from socializing

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As social networking has gone mainstream, so have the flock of buttons embedded in Web pages to get you to promote a story on the multitude of social-networking services you use. One Web developer has written a quick-and-dirty add-on that hides two of those gnat-like buttons from view. Dietrich Ayala, a developer for Mozilla based in Portland, Ore., wrote a new add-on called Wallflower to cut down on the memory use of buttons that he found superfluous.

The top half of this image is a CNET blog post without the Wallflower extension. Wallflower removes Facebook Like and Google+ buttons, as seen in the lower half of the image.

(Credit: Screenshot by Seth Rosenblatt/CNET)

Wallflower is a restartless add-on for Firefox, which means you won't have to restart your browser after installing it, and it performs the simple task of knocking out the Facebook "Like," Facebook "Connect," and Google+ "+1" buttons. In their place remains empty space filled by the site's background color or pattern.

"The add-on took about 10 minutes to write," Ayala said in an e-mail to CNET and mentioned in a comment on his blog announcing the add-on that i... [Read more]

Seth Rosenblatt 29 Aug, 2011

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Source: http://download.cnet.com/8301-2007_4-20098981-12/wallflower-stops-sites-from-socializing/?part=test-cnet&subj=software&tag=title
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