It turns out that Firefox users can improve their browsing experiences within Blackboard and keep their local data a bit safer through the use of the AdBlock Plus extension.
A problem I've had for awhile--predating Blackboard 9--is that when editing content within a Blackboard text area, Blackboard pops up a requester asking me to give some piece of Java code complete access to my PC. Of course I always say no. However, Firefox and Chrome seem unable to remember this, though Opera can be instructed to always block such a request from a particular site. Firefox is happy to allow one to always trust signed content from a provider, but not to always distrust. Strange.
Anyhow, these two AdBlock Plus rules block the annoying content from UMBC's Blackboard installation:
|http://blackboard.umbc.edu/webapps/blackboard/content/webeq3.editor.InputControl
|http://blackboard.umbc.edu/webapps/blackboard/execute/webeq3.editor.InputControl
It appears that Blackboard wants access to all the data and applications on my PC on the off chance that I might want to run an equation editor. I'll go out on a limb, having never tried webeq3, and say I have better equation editing tools on my machine.
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