Hasta La Gadget!

This article was written on May 21, 2008 by CyberNet.

Earlier this week we showed you how you could take advantage of Firefox 3’s built-in support for web applications. To be more specific we demonstrated how you can preview iCal calendars using 30boxes.com, and thanks to Lifehacker it looks like you can do the same thing for MailTo links.

By default Firefox 3 includes support for Yahoo! Mail with the MailTo links, but using any other email service will require a little bit of work. So below we have instructions on registering either Yahoo! Mail or Gmail as the default handler for MailTo links.

Here’s a MailTo link that you can test the new system on once you get it all setup:

tech@cybernetnews.com

–Yahoo! Mail–

Mozilla made it easy for all of the Yahoo! Mail users out there by including it as on option out-of-the-box. Here’s what you have to do if you’re using Yahoo! Mail:

Open the Firefox preferences, switch to the Applications tab, and look for the “mailto” option in the list. Next to it you should see a drop-down menu, and when expanded there should be an option to Use Yahoo! Mail:

–Gmail–

1. Type about:config into the address bar, and change the gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost value to true by double-clicking on it. You don’t need to restart your browser after doing this.
2. Click this link to add Gmail as the MailTo handler. It’s just a snippet of JavaScript.
3. You should see a little bar pop down from the top of the window asking for permission to have Gmail handle your MailTo links. Click the Add Application button.
   
4. Go back to about:config and set the gecko.handlerService.allowRegisterFromDifferentHost back to false. If you don’t do this any website can attempt to register protocol handlers in Firefox 3, which could pose a security issue.

Note: If clicking on a MailTo link opens an external application (or another service) you’ll need to refer to the steps under the Yahoo! Mail section above for changing the default handler to Gmail.

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This article was written on October 25, 2006 by CyberNet.

Back in July Mozilla announced World Firefox Day in hopes of spreading Firefox even faster. All you had to do was enter in your name, your friend’s name, and their email address in order to make it onto this “wall.” Of course your friend did also have to download and install Firefox before it was officially counted.

They have completed their project and all of the names are rotating around the Firefox logo. If you’re looking for some specific you’ll probably need to filter the results using the “Find names” box located at the top though. The best part is if you read how Mozilla worded each one, they are typically in this format:

• Person A Set free Person B
• Person A Loves Person B
• Person A Informed Person B
• Person A Liberated Person B
• Person A Enlightened Person B
• Person A Saved Person B
• Person A Empowered Person B

I am glad that Mozilla lived up to their end of the deal and that they got a little creative.

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This article was written on January 02, 2006 by CyberNet.

This could end up being the ultimate Firefox Extension! Soon you may be able to do all of your file sharing straight from Firefox. That is the concept of Peer Pressure File Sharing. There has not been a release of the extension yet but the site says that it will be coming soon, so keep your eyes peeled for this very unique idea.

AllPeers is a free extension which combines the strength of Firefox and the efficiency of BitTorrent to transform your favorite browser into a media sharing powerhouse.

Regain control! You decide which media files you want to share with whom and to maximize your privacy, communications are encrypted.

Forget about complicated setup or obscure user interfaces. If you know how to use Firefox you know how to use AllPeers.

Home Page: AllPeers Peer Pressure

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This article was written on November 07, 2006 by CyberNet.

There have been literally hundreds of thousands of people who have downloaded the Performancing Firefox extension to help them post to their blogs. It is about to get even better for a lot of people because Performancing For Firefox (PFF) will support Blogger Beta when it is officially released either later tonight or tomorrow.

You’re probably impatient and hate to wait, so you can go download the latest Beta version of the extension if you want to get a preview of the new features. Besides for the newly added Blogger Beta support it also works with Firefox 2 now and actually utilizes the spell-checker that Firefox now has to offer.

It is really nice to see all of these developers updating their Firefox extensions so quickly after Firefox 2 was released. I remember when I upgraded from Firefox 1.0.x to 1.5 it seemed like it took months for people to update their extensions. Now many of the extensions that I am using even have support for Firefox 3 which really blows me away.

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This article was written on November 14, 2006 by CyberNet.

How secure are the Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 anti-phishing mechanisms after all? According to Paul Thurrott this is how great the built-in anti-phishing feature is for Firefox 2:

The built-in phishing protection is truly third-rate. There are two antiphishing options: Mozilla’s weak blacklist-based protection (yes, seriously) and Google’s antiphishing technology, which is both poorly rated and a privacy nightmare.

The result of the most recent test, by a consulting firm called SmartWare, pitted both Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 against 1,040 known phishing sites. Of those sites Firefox came out well above IE 7 as you can see in the chart above that I put together.

There aren’t many specifics on how the test was conducted and where the known phishing sites were retrieved from because that could make a large difference. Firefox 2 does use a blacklist which the browser downloads and compares URL’s to. That blacklist can be viewed by anyone which would make the test highly unfair if many of the sites were pulled from that list.

I’m not very fond of using a blacklist for detecting fraudulent sites but I do think it is an effective method. A combination of blacklist and heuristics would definitely be the best but the heuristics would take some time to properly develop to prevent false positives (identifying a clean site as fraudulent). It would also be nice if SmartWare would release some detailed information on how the tests were conducted and how the sites were picked so that we can ensure the results are unbiased.

News Source: Washington Post Blog [via Slashdot]

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