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Firefox 2.0.0.13 includes Vulnerabilities

March 28, 2008

Mozilla has just published the latest version of the Firefox 2.0.0.13 completed. It has some weaknesses, which are an attacked by malicious code allowed. The download of Mozilla is urgently recommended. The vulnerabilities relate primarily JavaScript, this was due to faulty workmanship alien code. Sun has, thanks to the Mozilla developers a bugfix in the [...]

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7 Freeware that every college student should know

March 13, 2008

In this series we collected some of the freeware that could use in their everyday life. Firefox Deepburner FlashGet  AbiWord IZarc pidgin IrfanView Firefox Most of us use Internet Explorer as the de-facto Web browser, maybe because it is preloaded with Windows. But there are other Web browsers that are more user-friendly and offer more [...]

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How to open new tabs directly next to the tab in current page

March 4, 2008

Firefox always opens new tabs on the extreme right when you click on a link. You have to toggle between topics that are related to each other if several tabs are open at the same times. Or you have to shift the tabs. Both methods are not satisfactory. The free add-on ‘Tab Control’ changes the [...]

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How can you protect your configuration settings from being accessed by others

March 4, 2008

You use a computer with several user accounts. You want to ensure that only you, as administrator, can change important browser settings such as configuration of the proxy. However, users should be able to make changes in the general settings. The key to this is a configuration file, in which you block selected options and [...]

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How to protect your system from new super cookies

March 4, 2008

Super cookies have started featuring on the menu cards of many websites, some of which are dubious in character. What are they? How can you protect your system from these elements or mange them? In addition to the classic cookies that are only up to four kilo bytes in size, thre are much bigger Flash [...]

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How to allow specific JavaScript to different browsers while surfing

March 3, 2008

Many a times important web sites are dependent on JavaScripts even though it’s safe to surf without these scripts in the browser. But continuously adjusting the browser is painful. How do I avoid it? Specify the web sites, for which the browser can use JavaScript. All the other unknown scripts should be automatically blocked. As [...]

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How to get rid of annoying help text in Firefox 2

March 2, 2008

As soon as you move the cursor over a control element in Firefox, it displays help tesxt as a tool tip. What can be useful in the initial days of working with the browser becomes annoying in the long run. For instance, the tool tip blocks access to the bookmarks toolbar when you want to [...]

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