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Well, what do we have here? It’s IE10 and Windows 32-bit running on a 1GHz ARMv7 chip… live, right here at MIX 11!

Update: Wonder what kind of ARM chip that might be? NVIDIA just tweeted that it’s actually a Tegra 2 SOC.

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This article was written on July 30, 2007 by CyberNet.

The Firefox development team has finally resolved what was probably the longest outstanding bug for the browser: full page zoom. Up until now Firefox has only been capable of increasing and decreasing the size of text to simulate zooming, but now it handles images as well! The funny part is that it only took 8-years for this bug to get fixed.

This is something that the Opera browser has had ever since I can remember, and it is something I’ve always longed for in Firefox. Heck, even Internet Explorer 7 has some sort of zoom capabilities that also scales images, but the results are typically not the best.

To get it in Firefox 3 you’ll need to be using the latest nightly build, along with this extension. The extension is just a temporary fix that lets you add buttons to the navigation bar for zooming, and without it there is no way to take advantage of the new zoom capabilities. Eventually the developers will get the feature integrated with the browser, but the extension is the best way to test it out for those that want to see what it is like.

The results are much better than what Internet Explorer 7 produces, but not quite as good as Opera’s. I noticed in Firefox 3 that it has problems scaling some Flash and JavaScript objects, and one example of this can be seen in the screenshot above where it didn’t actually scale the contents of the ad located at the top of the screen nor the one at the top of the sidebar. I’m sure that these are just some bugs that they will be working out, and I look forward to seeing this feature in full swing when Firefox 3 gets released!

Source: Mozilla Links

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This article was written on May 17, 2007 by CyberNet.

Secunia launched a free online Software Inspector last December, and since then over 350,000 inspections have been completed. As we’ve discussed before, the service scans your computer looking for specific applications (Acrobat, QuickTime, iTunes, Windows Media Player, Firefox, Thunderbird, Internet Explorer, Opera, and more) to make sure that you’re running the latest version.

I ran the scan myself to see how well I keep my programs up-to-date, and it turns out that I do a pretty good job:

However, Secunia is reporting that not everyone cares so much about updating their software. Out of the 350,000 scans that they have done, here are the percentages of people running out-dated versions of the applications:

In response to those numbers Secunia said that on average 28% of the applications were out-dated:

Most people using Windows and Microsoft products are usually aware of the monthly “Patch Tuesday” routine that Microsoft has set up, which can explain why the patch level for MS products are relatively high. These numbers also indicate that many people using Firefox and Opera are concerned about security and remember to keep their products updated.

But when it comes to other applications that don’t immediately seem that exposed, people tend to wait for an extended period of time before patching.

This constitutes a significant problem because many of those applications, like WinAMP and Quicktime, are readily used whenever users encounter media files of various kinds. Most people wouldn’t hesitate to open an .mpg, .jpg, .mov, or .mp3 file from any source if it seems the least bit interesting and relevant. It’s easy to embed a movie in your homepage, for example, and all it takes is one unpatched Quicktime vulnerability and a provocative video title to compromise a lot of visitors.

As you can see the updates are very important for more than just the browser, but users typically shrug them off as not necessary. So while you’re sitting there right now why don’t you open a new tab in your browser and run Secunia’s Software Inspector to make sure you are completely up-to-date (it does require that you have Java installed).

Source: Secunia Blog [via PC Advisor]

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This article was written on December 27, 2006 by CyberNet.

Web Browser Wednesday

As websites continue to become more and more AJAXified I believe that bookmarklets are going to become a larger driving force. Some of you may not be familiar with bookmarklets, so I was trying to think of a good way I could explain them. When I stumbled upon the Wikipedia article I thought it couldn’t be said any better:

A bookmarklet is a small JavaScript program that can be stored as a URL within a bookmark in most popular web browsers, or within hyperlinks on a web page. Because Internet Explorer uses the term favorites instead of bookmarks, bookmarklets are also less commonly called favelets by users.

Bookmarklets can be saved and used like normal web page bookmarks. Therefore, they are simple “one-click” tools that can add substantial functionality to the browser. For example, they can:

• Modify the way a web page is displayed within the browser (e.g., change the font size, background color, etc.).
• Extract data from a web page (e.g., hyperlinks, images, text, etc.).
• Jump directly to a search engine, with the search term(s) input either from a new dialog box, or from a selection already made on a web page.
• Submit the page to a validation service.

There are all kinds of services that provide bookmarks, especially for browsers that don’t support extensions or add-ons, like Opera. The problem is trying to find ones that are actually useful to you. Below I have categorized the different bookmarklets depending on what you are trying to do. I have quite an extensive collection of bookmarklets that I have gathered over the years with my two primary sources being SquareFree and OperaWiki. I’ll be mashing the two sources together to bring you my favorites, and each one will have images signaling which browsers they work with (Firefox 2 , Internet Explorer 7 , and Opera 9 ).

Note: To use any of the following bookmarklets just hold down the left mouse button and drag the hyperlink to the bookmark toolbar in your browser. 

–Hyperlink Manipulation–

• Color code links  
  Makes all internal links on a site red, external links blue, and links pointing to the current page (internal bookmarks) orange.
• Hide visited hyperlinks  
  Removes all hyperlinks that you have already visited on a site, therefore making it easier to see which links you still need to open.
• Rewrite redirects  
  This script will rewrite all URL’s to point directly to the source instead of routing through a redirect URL.
• Increment URL  
  Increases the last number in the URL by 1. This will often work with sites where you go through multiple pages, and therefore simulates pressing the “Next” link.
• Decrement URL  
  Decreases the last number in the URL by 1. This will often work with sites where you go through multiple pages, and therefore simulates pressing the “Previous” link.
• Generate TinyURL   
  Creates a TinyURL for the current site.
• Linkify
  Make all plain-text URL’s into hyperlinks.

–Form Manipulation–

• View password  
  Shows password field in plain text instead of asterisks. 
• Remember passwords
  Some sites try to block passwords from being stored by using the “autocomplete=off” option in the form. If a website is blocking the storage of a password using this option (such as Yahoo! Mail) then it will remove it from the HTML so that the browser can store the password. 

 –Appearance Manipulation–

• Remove bloat  
  Eliminates all occurrences of Flash, Java, music, and third-party iframes.
• Disable StyleSheets  
  Turns off all stylesheets which might be useful for hard-to-read websites.
• Slowly load the site
  Choose how many characters to load on the site each second. Might be useful to test what your site looks like on a dial-up connection by setting the character limit to something low.
• Duplicate tab
  Opens the current site in a new tab. 
• Highlight search term   (submitted by “edwest”)
  Prompts for a search term that you would like to highlight on the current page.
• Ultimate Highlight   (submitted by “Chad-)”)
  Prompts for a search term to be highlighted. It will also display a box in the upper-right corner of the screen with the number of results on the page and a link to start a new search.

–Cookie Manipulation–

• Remove site’s cookies  
  Deletes all cookies created by the current site.
• View site’s cookies  
  View all cookies created by the current site.
• Transfer site’s cookies  
  Transfer cookies created by the current site to a different browser. This bookmarklet will give you the necessary code to re-create a specific cookie in a different browser.

–Other Bookmarklets– 

• Calculator  
  A popup window where you can enter in a simple calculation such as “7 + 4″ and have it return the sum of those two numbers.
• ASCII table  
  Shows the ASCII character table in a new window
• WebColors  
  Shows the 216 “browser-safe” colors with their corresponding hex codes.
• Scroll by Dragging   (submitted by “Chad-)”)
  Executing this bookmarklet will turn the cursor into a scroller and executing it again will return it back to normal.

There you go…now you can start to utilize the power of bookmarklets. If you’re a Firefox user, than many of the bookmarklets mentioned above can also be found in extensions, such as the Linkify. Personally I prefer to use the bookmarklets so that I keep my extensions list to a minimum, and also because I don’t want an extension analyzing every site that I visit when it really isn’t necessary.

There are many more bookmarklets available, so I tried to keep the list concise, yet thorough. If you know of a bookmarklet that you can’t live without, let us know so that we can add it to the list.

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This article was written on July 23, 2007 by CyberNet.

We’ve shown you how easy it can be to retrieve passwords stored in your browser, provided that someone has access to your computer. Well, that’s not the only way for a hacker to gain access to some of the information stored in the Firefox Password Manager. A new flaw that was just revealed late last week can retrieve some of your passwords using a very small amount of JavaScript.

How does it work? Here’s a quick example of what could happen:

1. User visits a site such as their own blog hosted on a popular network (something like Blogger).
2. They login, and have Firefox remember their username/password.
3. They visit someone else’s blog on the same domain, and a username/password form appears on the site. As expected Firefox autofills the information for the user (both the username and password) so that they can just hit enter to login.
4. The site is able to use some JavaScript to store the username and password without the user even hitting the Submit button. This is done by having the JavaScript go and retrieve the values located in the text box (document.<form>.<field>.value).

This flaw can only be used to expose the username and password that is entered into a form, and Firefox automatically does this for people who have stored a password. That means your information could be surrendered without you even realizing it.

If you want to try this out yourself, Heise has setup a demo site where you makeup a username/password, and then have Firefox store it. Then when you go to the “evil” page, Firefox will automatically fill out the form and a popup will reveal the username and password you stored.

To get around this happening, it is recommended that you either don’t store passwords in Firefox or you disable JavaScript. Of course, this is really only an issue on a “network” of sites that all have the same domain. The reason for that is because Firefox will not, for example, fill in your bank’s username and password here on CyberNet. So just be aware of what passwords you have stored, and you can always have Firefox prompt you for a master password before it autofills any information.

An alternative that xpgeek pointed out in the forum is to install the Secure Login extension to prevent Firefox from automatically filling in password forms.

Note: This vulnerability also affects the Safari browser.

– What’s the Most Secure Browser? –

I decided to lookup on Secunia, who tracks vulnerabilities for more than 14,000 applications, to see which browser is currently the most secure. Here’s what I came up with:

• Opera 9.x has had 8 advisories, all of which have been patched. [source]
• Firefox 2.0.x has had 13 advisories, and there are 6 that have not been patched. [source]
• Internet Explorer 7.x has had 14 advisories, and there are 8 that have not been patched. [source]

You can take that information for what it’s worth, but it goes to show that most browsers constantly have security-related flaws.

Source: Heise Security [via Slashdot]

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