And I likes it. Also using the Thunderbird email.
That is all.
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Welcome to the dark side Dwarf
Firefox and Thunderbird is the shiznit. Been using both for quite a while.
now just to start sending a message to any and all web pages that do no work with FF about thier lack of compliance with the industry RFC's.
basically if i can not access a web page via FF or Opera, i just no longer go to that site and send the admin of that page a letter telling them so.
you would be supprised how many reply with a 'we are working to make our site more accessable to browsers like FireFox and Opera.' those are sites i will go back to, if no responce other then an autoresponder, i just block those URLs at my router.
basically if i can not access a web page via FF or Opera, i just no longer go to that site and send the admin of that page a letter telling them so.
you would be supprised how many reply with a 'we are working to make our site more accessable to browsers like FireFox and Opera.' those are sites i will go back to, if no responce other then an autoresponder, i just block those URLs at my router.
Rate up for a smart decision.
Also with the loving of Firefox here.
Heh, as an aside, my husband cleared out our second computer last weekend and redid the whole thing as a Linux machine. He was in paroxysms of joy as he surfed the 'net, checked his e-mail, and printed off some stuff, all without, as he said, touching a single Microsoft product.
(me, I just like Firefox because it doesn't freeze up on me and I don't get more popups at all)
Heh, as an aside, my husband cleared out our second computer last weekend and redid the whole thing as a Linux machine. He was in paroxysms of joy as he surfed the 'net, checked his e-mail, and printed off some stuff, all without, as he said, touching a single Microsoft product.
(me, I just like Firefox because it doesn't freeze up on me and I don't get more popups at all)
FF user because everyone here was raving about it. I have to say I'm still loving it. Good choice man
I have never been spycookied sice I use FF. ^^
Bad thing: Some microsoft programs force you to use IE on their sites. Shame on you Microsoft!
Bad thing: Some microsoft programs force you to use IE on their sites. Shame on you Microsoft!
Cool browser. Anyone know how to get it to default to using a new tab instead of opening up another browser window when clicking on a link that normally spawns another window?
Fike wrote:
Cool browser. Anyone know how to get it to default to using a new tab instead of opening up another browser window when clicking on a link that normally spawns another window?
Dunno. I just usually right click the link and tell it to open in a new tab. If there's a default way to do that and anyone knows, share it, numbnuts.
No default way to have it happen when you click afaik, but I know with my mouse it opens up in a new tab if I click down on the mouse wheel on the link, not really any easier than right-clicking anyway.
Edited, Tue Feb 8 20:25:46 2005 by Lasrena
Edited, Tue Feb 8 20:25:46 2005 by Lasrena
Extensions are the sh[b][/b]it.
what to add a danger to FF and a fix for it
got this from my linux user group e-mail list.
got this from my linux user group e-mail list.
Quote:
I don't remember this coming up in conversation here:
All Gecko- and KHTML-based browsers apparently share a common
vulnerability due to IDN (International Domain Names) functionality.
Because PUNYCODE can be used to "spoof" letters in the standard English
alphabet, and are treated as separate letters from their homographs, a
domain name can be spoofed. This allows a malicious web admin to
create
an entire spoofed website that serves as a phishing mechanism (or some
other nefarious purpose), and the visitor to the site might never wise
up to it.
I've run across three "fixes" for this in Firefox so far.
The first involves going to the "about:config" page and changing the
network.enableIDN value from "true" to "false". This will work until
you restart your browser, at which point it functions as though no
change had been made, and you become vulnerable again. You can change
the setting from "false" to "true" and back to "false" again every time
you restart your browser, if need be. Yes, this bug has been filed
with
bugzilla.
The second involves opening your compreg.dat file and changing all
idn-service values from 1 to 0. There are two such values, as far as I
can tell. I don't know if only one or both is necessary for this fix
to
work, since on this machine it doesn't work at all. It has zero effect
for me.
The third actually works. Thank goodness. For this, you install the
adblock extension for Firefox, turn on site blocking, and add a regular
expression to the list of blocked sites that covers all characters that
might be used in spoofing URLs. I'll go into more detail now:
1. Go to this page: http://cannotlinkto.com/6oq6f
2. Download and install the Adblock extension for Firefox. You may have
to turn on the ability to install software from a website in your
preferences (under "Web Features"). I recommend disabling the software
isntallation feature when you're not actively using it, of course, but
maybe I'm just weird that way.
3. Open the Adblock preferences dialog (Adblock settings are under the
Tools menu).
4. Open "Adblock Options", and check the "Site Blocking" option.
5. Place the following string of characters in the "New Filter" field:
/[^\x20-\xFF]/
6. Click "Add", and confirm that you want to include this regular
expression as a filter. Whether or not you select "I know what I'm
doing" is up to you.
7. Click "Done".
When this is accomplished, IDN-based URL spoofing won't work. There
will
be no error messages: the link will simply not act like a link.
Clicking
on it will accomplish nothing.
I have confirmed that, with multiple Firefox releases, this survives
browser restarts, not only on Linux but on Windows as well.
Let me know if for anyone out there this fails to solve the problem.
I've developed a fair amount of interest in this matter over the last
couple of days.
--
Chad
All Gecko- and KHTML-based browsers apparently share a common
vulnerability due to IDN (International Domain Names) functionality.
Because PUNYCODE can be used to "spoof" letters in the standard English
alphabet, and are treated as separate letters from their homographs, a
domain name can be spoofed. This allows a malicious web admin to
create
an entire spoofed website that serves as a phishing mechanism (or some
other nefarious purpose), and the visitor to the site might never wise
up to it.
I've run across three "fixes" for this in Firefox so far.
The first involves going to the "about:config" page and changing the
network.enableIDN value from "true" to "false". This will work until
you restart your browser, at which point it functions as though no
change had been made, and you become vulnerable again. You can change
the setting from "false" to "true" and back to "false" again every time
you restart your browser, if need be. Yes, this bug has been filed
with
bugzilla.
The second involves opening your compreg.dat file and changing all
idn-service values from 1 to 0. There are two such values, as far as I
can tell. I don't know if only one or both is necessary for this fix
to
work, since on this machine it doesn't work at all. It has zero effect
for me.
The third actually works. Thank goodness. For this, you install the
adblock extension for Firefox, turn on site blocking, and add a regular
expression to the list of blocked sites that covers all characters that
might be used in spoofing URLs. I'll go into more detail now:
1. Go to this page: http://cannotlinkto.com/6oq6f
2. Download and install the Adblock extension for Firefox. You may have
to turn on the ability to install software from a website in your
preferences (under "Web Features"). I recommend disabling the software
isntallation feature when you're not actively using it, of course, but
maybe I'm just weird that way.
3. Open the Adblock preferences dialog (Adblock settings are under the
Tools menu).
4. Open "Adblock Options", and check the "Site Blocking" option.
5. Place the following string of characters in the "New Filter" field:
/[^\x20-\xFF]/
6. Click "Add", and confirm that you want to include this regular
expression as a filter. Whether or not you select "I know what I'm
doing" is up to you.
7. Click "Done".
When this is accomplished, IDN-based URL spoofing won't work. There
will
be no error messages: the link will simply not act like a link.
Clicking
on it will accomplish nothing.
I have confirmed that, with multiple Firefox releases, this survives
browser restarts, not only on Linux but on Windows as well.
Let me know if for anyone out there this fails to solve the problem.
I've developed a fair amount of interest in this matter over the last
couple of days.
--
Chad
an other fix:
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-aviary1.0.1/
go there and get the nightly build. tonights build already has the fix built into it.
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-aviary1.0.1/
go there and get the nightly build. tonights build already has the fix built into it.
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