I changed a few lines of code in BugMeNot so it would play nice with their servers. Nothing major should have been broken, but let me know if it’s wonky for you. It should show up over at AMO relatively soon. Newest version is 1.8. Version 1.7 was released for about five minutes because I forgot to take out a certain section. Enjoy.
Edit: Wait for a bit before you try to download it- looks like Mozilla’s copy of this file is corrupted somehow, so I will try and get this issue fixed as soon as I can. Thanks, everyone.
Title says it all. Look for it to appear very soon here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6349
It has to go through a delayed approval process to make sure it’s kosher for people to download. As soon as it gets approved, it will show up as version 1.6. It now has Italian localization, too (thanks, Andrew).
BugMeNot is a Firefox extension that allows you to bypass compulsory web registration via the right-click context menu.
Say what?
Here’s an example. A friend sends you a link that sends you to a news article on, oh, let’s say, the New York Times. You click on said link, and instead of reading the actual article, you are reading a page that tells you in order to view this article, you have to fill out a registration form and become a member.
“I just wanna read the article,” you moan, withering on the floor.
Enter BugMeNot.
Now you just have to right-click on either the user name or password field, select “Login with BugMeNot,” and you are instantly logged in, using any one of several user-submitted public accounts, with their names and passwords.
This is used for mandatory, free registration, and not for pay sites. Also make a note: I am not the owner, developer, creator or maintainer of BugMeNot’s service. I simply wrote the Firefox extension that hooks in to the service. If you have any questions, praise, comments or complaints about the actual service, then visit bugmenot.com for full details of their service.
Okay, enough reading- how do I install this thing?
Fair question. Go here and follow the directions: