BugMeNot 1.3

Publisher's description of BugMeNot

Compatible with Mozilla and current Firefox releases that use the new extension manager, BugMeNot bypasses compulsory web registration via Firefox's right-click context menu.

Version 1.3 will automatically fill in the Web site's fields with the first username and password combination it finds and the information will be automatically submitted. If it runs out of valid usernames and passwords, the window will stay open to allow you to submit your new registration information. Additional server support has been added if the main database should fail in the future. You can change various settings in the extension's options menu if you use Firefox, Mozilla and Netscape's auto-fill and auto-submit are on by default. The context menu has been changed to now only show the BugMeNot option if you right-click in a username and password text field, to help cut down context menu bloat.

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Editor's review of BugMeNot

The strength of this Web registration bypass utility is its efficiency. Its beauty is its invisibility. BugMeNot's interface is a mere line in your Firefox context menu. This helpful tool is designed to work best without any user intervention.

Surf to a popular Web site that requires registration, and BugMeNot immediately logs you in using its stored registration data. The program doesn't save your information, but enters the data from its database of faux accounts. That means multiple users log in with the same account, but none are actually the account holder. This free add-on works best for those sites you rarely visit. You won't need to spend time registering at a newspaper site just to read a single article. Surf to the site and BugMeNot automatically logs you in with an account in its database. If the site has disabled the account, the app simply tries until it finds one that works. On the rare occasion when you surf to a site that BugMeNot doesn't recognize, you can quickly submit faux registration information that the app saves for future use.

BugMeNot's few options disable automatic submission of data and automatic entry of the next account if the first fails. However, we feel the program works best in full automatic mode. Any Firefox user who surfs the Web will love the simplicity and usefulness of this free add-on.

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  BugMeNot

  A MUST HAVE for any FireFox user!

  by: xero69 on 25-Aug-2006 10:32:51 AM

  Pros: I was so tired of having to register on millions of news sites just to read an article or two, and then getting spam because I gave out my email. Bugmenot has made my surfing for news articles a pleasant experience again. Now I can maintain my privacy and not spend hours filling out stupid registration pages just so I can view free content on news sites.

  Cons: Doesn't work on ALL sites. Please know that this NOT for use with "pay" or "non free sites". It's not perfect, sometimes it will put the username and password into the wrong fields if the web page has "username" or "email" in more than one place (like youtube for example). But you can just copy and paste the username and pass into the correct fields by hand and it's still WAY faster and easier to do this than to give out all your personal info and then register and get a bunch of spam.

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  BugMeNot

  Great extension

  by: jeffdogg1585 on 29-Jun-2006 12:02:16 PM

  Pros: logs into pretty much all free-registration website with one click (automatically tries new passwords after one pair fails). Saves so much hassle and protects your privacy to some extent. (The reviews that complain about manually trying to pick passwords were about old versions, and for the guy who wanted playboy password: bugmenot.com and the bugmenot extension is not for paysites! Get a grip.

  Cons: It is not listed on FF extension site, presumably 'cause the author wants to increase traffic to his own site.

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