Firefox: This address is restricted

This address uses a network port which is normally used for purposes other than Web browsing. Firefox has canceled the request for your protection.

This message appears if you want to access a website on a non-standard port, e.g. http://example.com:42 .

Being a developer you might run in your non-productive environment a web server listening on such a port. As a workaround you can tweak your firefox by adding the configuration network.security.ports.banned.override to your preferences.

To do so go to about:config, klick on the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button and right-click any preference. In the appearing context menu click New > String and add the new preference

network.security.ports.banned.override

with a value “1-65000″ or whatever ports you want to access. They don’t describe blocked ports but ports that are considered to be not banned.

I recommend to create a new firefox profile for development and testing purpose and that you only open ports that you really need.

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MindNode Pro

Apfelnase wrote about MindNode – a Mac application for creating mind maps easily and very fast. If you are using MindNode feel free to tell about your experiences. In writing a post and referencing to this site you can win a license for the Pro version.

I’m still using the previous version of Mac OS X and that’s why I can’t use MindNode yet. In March I’m going to switch to Leopard which is supported by MindNode.

I’m still not able to use MindNode Pro but I assert you that I need it. Because I can’t tell you much about MindNode I show you how to make mind maps with OmniGraffle which isn’t well suited for that. Hopefully I can even take part of the lottery to win a license for MindNode Pro.

Creating a mind map in OmniGraffle isn’t made as intuitive as in MindNode. If you compare the video with the screenshots of MindNode it’s clear that OmniGraffle isn’t optimized for mind map creation but MindNode does.

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