Mozilla just released an interesting add-on called Lightbeam. It might look familiar to those who've used Collusion before but this incarnation has a nicer UI and feature set.

--mancha

This approach is not really new. Nice, but not new.

Thanks for the link. I usually just watch No-Script's and Request Policy's lists to see what sites do the pages link to.

Interesting. I don't know about Lightbeam, but Collusion did not work well. The Collusion add-on simple-mindedly reported all links in a web page and not those that were actually connected. Ad blocking and anti-third party measures prevent actually connecting to most if not all of those links and Collusion did not reflect that, thereby creating a false image of the problem. For Lightbeam to be an improvement, some intelligence in the code is needed to show which links are actually connected and which are not. That would also show how effective the blocking measures are for each user.

interesting, unfortunately:
Not available for Firefox 17.0
:-(

Was waiting for an update for one or the other to work. Until then Ghostery is quite good at seeing and blocking trackers for example. Not quite the same map-like view but still useful.

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Worth the read, including the 5 comments, if you are considering Ghostery
http://www.technologyreview.com/news...e-ad-industry/

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Thanks. I tried disconnect but it's a paid app it seems.

This would mean using a nightly would it? Have you tested to see whether it works with the latest nightly?

Yes, works well on Firefox\Nightly-27.0a1 at post-date...

Awesome tool I've never used before, Thanks for the link!

After playing with it for a little while now went in search of a quicker clear history button addon but no need just Ctrl + Shift + Delete, sweet.

For some reason Lightbeam came to a stop at midnight and will not switch to today. Even in week view it's not showing anything since midnight. Any ideas? (I've asked on the FF forum)

You could start a new thread in the software section of the forms naming it Lightbeam error or something with some added info (e.g: browser\FFx.x, OS, if you keep it constantly open or any settings, etc.) I'm sure it's not just that you've only visited the same sites already in there since midnight? And, that some use it differently or for different reasons than others.