Comments on: Protect your Firefox Profile http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/ A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:50:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Maishttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/comment-page-1/#comment-1296388 Mais Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:58:05 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-1296388 I can recommend Rohos Mini Drive a free utility to password protect Firefox profile. I can recommend Rohos Mini Drive a free utility to password protect Firefox profile.

]]> By: Coolboy19http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/comment-page-1/#comment-1252034 Coolboy19 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 10:21:59 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-1252034 This profile password can easily b bypassed.... exit firefox completele(frm taskmanager if required) jst goto ur AppDataRoaming--->firefox--->Profiles under dat browse for extensions u can find a file name profilepassword.jar dats it...jst rename dat file..n ur done... it wont ask u for a password d next time u start firefox.. This profile password can easily b bypassed….
exit firefox completele(frm taskmanager if required)
jst goto ur AppDataRoaming—>firefox—>Profiles under dat browse for extensions
u can find a file name profilepassword.jar

dats it…jst rename dat file..n ur done…
it wont ask u for a password d next time u start firefox..

]]> By: Adamhttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/comment-page-1/#comment-980516 Adam Wed, 24 Feb 2010 08:24:56 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-980516 tools/options/security/use a master password tools/options/security/use a master password

]]> By: Lucahttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/comment-page-1/#comment-246881 Luca Sat, 26 Jan 2008 07:25:04 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-246881 Hello, I'm a little "general-purpose" IT-consultant. One of my goals is to analyze and manage (may be improve) medium size business' everyday work. The first problem is that my customers hove no idea of the main series of risks. First: protect THEIR CUSTOMERS sensitive data. There are severe law restrictions to manage sensitive data in Italy, so my customers are continuously in front of high risk. In case of theft of hardwares they are completely exposed, but also when they are connected to the Internet. ("Firewall? What's a firewall? we have fire extinguishers!" or "Get rid of all those annoying popups or you can go home!"). I had already thought about this solution, TrueCrypt is my first choice for my own problems, but not so accessible to non-power-users... First problem: by default old Mozilla profile manager is hidden in mff, and has to be launched by command prompt in windows... Very old version of mozilla and netscape required password to access a profile, but I'm not able to find whether were there encryption of profiles' data. Does anyone know whether are there integrated solutions for password-protect and encrypt profiles in Firefox and Thunderbird? [The problem is almost identical in Opera (don't tell me nothing about M$IE)] I mean open-source, or if not, commercial too... Or we can go further: are there other browser I don't know yet? Thanks a lot, Luca Hello,
I’m a little “general-purpose” IT-consultant. One of my goals is to analyze and manage (may be improve) medium size business’ everyday work.
The first problem is that my customers hove no idea of the main series of risks.
First: protect THEIR CUSTOMERS sensitive data. There are severe law restrictions to manage sensitive data in Italy, so my customers are continuously in front of high risk.
In case of theft of hardwares they are completely exposed, but also when they are connected to the Internet. (“Firewall? What’s a firewall? we have fire extinguishers!” or “Get rid of all those annoying popups or you can go home!”).
I had already thought about this solution, TrueCrypt is my first choice for my own problems, but not so accessible to non-power-users…
First problem: by default old Mozilla profile manager is hidden in mff, and has to be launched by command prompt in windows…
Very old version of mozilla and netscape required password to access a profile, but I’m not able to find whether were there encryption of profiles’ data.
Does anyone know whether are there integrated solutions for password-protect and encrypt profiles in Firefox and Thunderbird?
[The problem is almost identical in Opera (don't tell me nothing about M$IE)]
I mean open-source, or if not, commercial too…
Or we can go further: are there other browser I don’t know yet?

Thanks a lot,

Luca

]]> By: Radohttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/comment-page-1/#comment-84577 Rado Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:12:21 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-84577 Great trick and easy to put in practice. Great trick and easy to put in practice.

]]> By: netkinghttp://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/comment-page-1/#comment-84259 netking Sat, 27 Jan 2007 12:52:49 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/2007/01/27/protect-your-firefox-profile/#comment-84259 If the goal is to protect yourself from childs or mother, this extension : https://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/profilepassword-en.html#PPFF can do the trick... It'll set a password to open your profile... But it's really easy to bypass, so not as reliable as TrueCrypt... If the goal is to protect yourself from childs or mother, this extension : https://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/profilepassword-en.html#PPFF
can do the trick… It’ll set a password to open your profile…

But it’s really easy to bypass, so not as reliable as TrueCrypt…

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