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Copy Plain Text is a very useful add-on for Mozilla products, especially for Firefox, when you deal with lots of text copying from web pages on a daily basis. The old Copy Plain Text, created by Jeremy Gillick, died at version 0.3.3 and it dosen't work anymore with current versions of Firefox or Thunderbird.Even... |
29 December 2011
11:31 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor Project have released the first stable version of their HTTPS Everywhere Firefox extension which enforces secure connections.Many websites, especially the big ones, have been offering full-session HTTPS for a while now, but not as a default option. Because of this ... |
5 August 2011
04:53 GMT |
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It's been a couple of years in the making, but the Mozilla Jetpack project has finally reached maturity with the launch of the stable Add-on SDK 1.0 and the Add-on Builder Beta. Both tools enable developers to create Firefox add-ons using just web technology, JavaScript, CSS, HTML along with the APIs provided by... |
21 June 2011
12:51 GMT |
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The W3C has taken over development and hosting responsibilities for the Privacy Dashboard Firefox extension, a project funded through the European Union's 7th Framework Programme.The Privacy Dashboard extension aims to inform users about the personal information collected by websites and allows them to control w... |
9 June 2011
12:40 GMT |
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M86 SecureBrowsing is a small Firefox and Internet Explorer extension designed to offer ratings about the security risks of search results in Google, Yahoo! and Bing. Furthermore, the plugin can also scan links in popular social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Keeping safe online is no longer... |
11 April 2011
13:50 GMT |
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Security researchers from Symantec have identified a new Facebook scam that tricks users into installing a rogue Firefox extension in order to remain active longer.The scammers promise users the ability to see their most active profile viewers, a feature that doesn't exist on Facebook.The spam messages read: "I ... |
23 March 2011
04:53 GMT |
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Zscaler, a provider of cloud security services, has released a free Firefox extension that aims to protect users from fake online stores, a category of malicious websites that isn't covered by most blacklists.Called Zscaler Safe Shopping, the extension is still going through the approval process on the official ... |
28 February 2011
03:35 GMT |
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A Firefox security extension, which forces HTTPS connections on many popular websites, has been updated to better protect users from session hijacking attacks.Dubbed "HTTPS Everywhere" the add-on is the creation of civil rights watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Tor project, a developer of anonymiz... |
24 November 2010
13:26 GMT |
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VirusTotal, the most popular online file scanner, has introduced new features, which include URL scanning, a public API, a community service, as well as a Firefox extension for checking Internet resources directly from the browser.The submitted URLs are currently check against several services and blacklist including... |
10 August 2010
08:51 GMT |
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Security researchers from Zscaler, a provider of cloud-based security solutions, have developed a Firefox extension aimed at protecting users from black hat search engine optimization (BHSEO) attacks. Dubbed Search Engine Security (SES), the add-on allows altering the Referer header, which tricks the malicious pages ... |
9 August 2010
15:49 GMT |
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The password-stealing Firefox extension banned by Mozilla from the official repository last week was distributed as part of a collection of add-ons meant for Web application penetration testers. Because of this, the attacker might have obtained access to websites and systems that are still in development.Last Tuesday... |
19 July 2010
07:07 GMT |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), one of the leading online privacy groups, together with the Tor Project, has developed a Firefox extension, which automatically forces HTTPS connections for several major sites that support it. Dubbed HTTPS Everywhere, the add-on allows users to add support for other websites... |
19 June 2010
07:20 GMT |
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A Windows update marked as important and delivered to users earlier this week installed a Firefox extension without asking for consent. Microsoft claims the incident was caused by a bug and has since fixed the faulty update.After Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday, reports of a mysterious “Search Helper Exte... |
12 June 2010
07:47 GMT |
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Mozilla announced that one of the experimental extensions named as being infected in a recent AMO security advisory was in fact clean. A more thorough investigation revealed that detection of malware in version 4.0 of Sothink Video Downloader was a false positive.Last week, Mozilla's Add-ons Team issued a securi... |
11 February 2010
08:05 GMT |
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It took a little longer than the previous one to bake but the new version of Mozilla's Jetpack add-on framework for Firefox is now live and brimming with new features. Maybe not exactly brimming but the ones that are included make the wait worth while for developers and users alike. Jetpack 0.5's biggest n... |
12 September 2009
03:12 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a new piece of malware that functions as an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser. The rogue add-on intercepts Google search queries and injects advertisements into the results. The new attack has been reported by analysts from antivirus vendor Trend Micro and seems to be motivated b... |
29 August 2009
05:56 GMT |
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A student fellow at Harvard University has developed an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser, which allows privacy-concerned Internet users to protect themselves from behavioral targeting. It is currently able to set permanent opt-out cookies for 27 advertising networks that track browsing habits. Targeted adve... |
18 March 2009
04:53 GMT |
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Researchers from the anti-virus vendor BitDefender have come across an innovative piece of malware that hides itself and functions as a Firefox extension. The malicious add-on is a trojan that monitors user activity on numerous banking sites and steals the login credentials. In order to fly under the radar, this troj... |
5 December 2008
04:28 GMT |
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Web browsers have a major influence over the web pages rendering mode. As a consequence, in web design, the testing phase of a certain project against multiple web browsers is very important in order to repair possible bugs or incorrect page rendering issues. There are many standalone tools or extensions specific to... |
18 February 2008
11:44 GMT |
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If you are not satisfied by the results outputted by the default or custom Google searches, Mozilla Firefox with the help of a Javascript could help you in this sense. First, you must download and install a Firefox extension called Greasemonkey, that permits you to change the webpage's look and functionalities ... |
9 November 2007
11:42 GMT |
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