Dante send me a tip about a 0-day exploit that is affecting the latest versions of the popular Firefox web browser. The exploit is described as a remote memory-corruption vulnerability that is affecting Firefox running on all supported operating systems. A proof of concept has been published by the security researcher and the Mozilla team [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Configure Firefox To Only Open Whitelist Websites
The best way of controlling which websites are opened in a web browser is to block all of them except those that are listed on a custom whitelist. This does require work at the beginning when websites are added to the whitelist but reduces the level of control that has to be imposed on the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Flickr To Twitter Poster
If you want to post an image from your Flickr account as a status message on Twitter you need to do quite a few things to accomplish the task. First you log into Flickr and navigate to the photo that you want to post if it is one of the photos from your account. It [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Transfer Website Images To Image Hosting Websites
If you regularly come upon website images that you want to transfer to image hosting websites then you might want to try out the Image Transloader extension for the Mozilla Firefox web browser. This could be helpful to create backup or mirror copies of selected website’s images but also to display the images that were [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Web Browser Popularity
If you take a look at the five most popular web browsers you will notice huge differences in popularity among them. The web browsers in question are Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari and Google Chrome. Firefox was – and is still – the only web browser that was able to take away a [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Web Browser: Firefox Cache Search
Cache Search is an experimental add-on for the Firefox web browser that allows the user to search the contents of the Firefox cache from within the web browser’s interface. The Firefox add-on can only be installed after logging into the Mozilla website as this is required to download and install experimental Firefox extensions. The add-on [...]
Protect your privacy from Google AdSense’s new behavioral ads
Google recently launched behavioral targeted ads for AdSense. This means AdSense displays adverts not only on the context of the webpage, but on the context of your browsing history. The aim is to provide more relevant and efficient adverts, but tracking cookies being used across hundreds of thousands of websites raises obvious privacy issues, as [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Skip Megaupload Time Limit
Many file hosts on the Internet add time limits and captchas to their websites. Some say those are only added to annoy the hell out of non premium users so that they buy premium accounts to avoid those hassles. Megaupload makes use of a time limit that is displayed after entering the captcha on the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Web Browser: Firefox 3.1 Beta 3
The third beta of the Firefox 3.1 web browser has been released by the Mozilla development team just a few hours ago. It can be downloaded from the official website in all supported languages and for all supported operating systems. The release notes contain information about the improvements in this beta version of the Firefox [...]