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You can achieve the same thing with the RefControl add-on, which allows you to set a custom referrer for a particular site:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/refcontrol

Fantastic tip. For anyone interested in trying this out, use http://news.google.com as the "custom" referer.

Screenshots and help here: http://www.renjusblog.com/2010/01/hack-read-wall-street-onli...

Thanks, this worked perfectly

Perfect! Thank you!

For sites that has x free articles/month, I just discovered Private Tab[1] which makes it easy to turn an existing tab private or force a bookmark to always open in a private tab.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/private-tab/

Self-Destructing cookies extension also keeps the read count at 0 after you close the tab. As an added bonus the extension should also help prevent you from being tracked across the web by various advertising/state agencies.

here's a port i cobbled together from some firefox addon demos in 15 minutes. tested to work on wsj

https://github.com/zethraeus/wgsm-ff/blob/master/gglsntm.xpi...

(consider reading the source instead of just trusting it)

I sent you a pull request improving your code – only making the change apply to the current tab, and changing the Icon Name ;)