Posts Tagged ‘Firefox’
My Firefox addons
My web browser of choice is Firefox. I have been using it for years and since the upgrade to 4.0 losing the status bar, I thought I might create a post with my Firefox Addons.
- Adblock Plus – Homepage
This addon is self explanatory. It allows you to block ads based on filters that you can subscribe to. - Status-4-Evar – Homepage
Since Firefox 4, the status bar has been hidden. This addon enables the statusbar that we’ve all grown to love. - Download Statusbar – Homepage
This will allow your downloads to show on the statusbar instead of opening a new window. - IE Tab 2 – Homepage
Allows you to have pages load in an IE tab, rendering them in IE7, IE8 or IE9 compatability. - StumbleUpon – Homepage
Addon bar for StumbleUpon users. - Greasemonkey – Homepage
Allows you to change webpages via bits of Javascript, can get scripts from UserScripts. - Image Zoom – Homepage
Allows zoom and rotation of images.
Tags: Firefox
Old version of flash? Firefox will let you know
If you check out the latest blog post on the Mozilla Security Blog you will notice that John Nightingale announced that both Firefox 3.5.3 and Firefox 3.0.14 will inform you if you have an outdated version of Adobe Flash Player.
Once you have installed the new version, if you have an outdated version of Adobe Flash Player you will see this warning.
If you already have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player you will see the normal screen like this.
Internet Explorer first, Safari last against phishing
An independent security research group named NSS Labs found that Internet Explorer 8 came out on top at stopping phishing attacks. Firefox and Internet Explorer both tied first followed by Opera and Chrome. Safari was the biggest loser, coming last with only 2% of phishing attempts being blocked and there was no difference between the Mac or Windows client.
You can read the full PDF document that NSS Labs has detailing the testing process and their results.
Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari
Internet Explorer 6 Blocker
There has been some issues with my blog and viewing it with Internet Explorer 6 (mainly the lightbox effect) and since Internet Explorer 6 is 8 years old I felt it was time that people should be upgrading their web browsers to atleast Internet Explorer 7.
Tags: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari
Force which browser to use?
Just recently I got a suggestion via Skribit to stop forcing you, the reader to use a certain web browser. Now with out being rude, I am not forcing you to use any web browser.
For those that don’t know what I am talking about, I have a bar across the top of my page when visiting the site in Internet Explorer. The bar simply states:
Please, stop using Internet Explorer as a browser. It’s slow, unsecure and doesn’t render web pages correctly. You may download free and better browser like Mozilla Firefox or Opera. Close.
Now, I am not forcing you to switch browsers, if you look closely there is also a Close link at the end of the sentence, so it removes the recommendation. Maybe if I had the site redirect to a page that said “LOL, your using Internet Explorer, FAIL”, there would be a reason to make a suggestion.
I just am recommending an alternative web browser to use, at the end of the day it’s your choice what web browser you would like to use.
Tags: Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera
