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jasonkester on Feb 16, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Raising money for StackOverflow

Considering how often I rebuild my dev machines, I couldn't imagine tracking down all these obscure plugins every time I built a box. Firefox gets installed, along with Firebug and the AWS plugins, then sits idle in the taskbar until I need to use it for testing something.

I'm actually surprised by how many programmers DO have adblock.

Sukotto on Feb 16, 2010 [–]

Some of us automate our installs.

Check out the FEBE and OPIE plugins for firefox. Host the archives someplace (dropbox works well) and write a little install script and you're done.

Installing stuff by hand is so last century...

RyanMcGreal on Feb 16, 2010 | [–]

I'm actually surprised by how many programmers still install stuff. :)

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