From time to time, the news shows hacked websites and many users that got into security problems. These incidents would be reduced greatly if users were more conscious using more secure software in their PC, instead of using pre-installed software. Software like the new Mozila Firefox browser and some additional security programs such as: Antivirus, antispyware and a good personal firewall are necessary to protect all computers from the security threats of the Internet.
Why the Internet is so insecure?
The main reason why the Internet is not as safe as it should be is based on how computer software works and how operating systems (the software that interact with the underlying hardware) were designed. It is so difficult to build fail-proof software that it is not unheard to find unexpected errors in software used for years without problems and this is the reason why the people in charge of the design of the PC industry programmed operating systems to load the software necessary each time when the PC is turned on. Since all software works in volatile memory, it only takes some other software to load and take control of your system to start seeing problems.
The Internet was not designed with security in mind
The designers of the Internet were much more interested in adding features than providing a solid security foundation. That is the reason why Internet software don’t have minimal security and now we have to deal with this using things like: firewall software (this stop malicious traffic to get inside your PC) antivirus software (this stop malicious programs to cause harm in your PC) antispam software (this stop junk messages to get in your inbox), some antispyware features included in the Mozila software (this warns you about phishing sites).
Software contributes to the overall problem
Software built in a rush tend to have a lot of errors, such as the case of Internet Explorer, which was designed in a hurry to take Netscape (this was years before Mozila) out of the market by year 1,994, when Netscape was the most popular browser. With so much hurry in the design of the software, you need to be lucky if some hacker could not find a way to take advantage of some of them to take control of your PC. Microsoft updates could help, but the design of the software is so bad that errors are very difficult to deal with.
Mozila took more time to make a careful design
Firefox is the son of many other browser projects such as Netscape with many years of experience to adapt and turn itself into a very powerful browser with a lot of safety features. This browser also has many innovative things such as the tabbed browsing, making navigation through many websites easier because it is not necessary to open many different windows. The Firefox browser comes with a very exciting feature, which you can use to extend the functionality of the browser using software from third parties known as plug-ins.
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April 17th, 2009 on 3:57 am
Out of my experience: FlashGot, as well as – not surprisingly – all the extensions which, by their nature, require connecting to some server (weather forecasts and the like).
But since there's thousands of add-ons, and thus chances are that I don't use the same ones as you do: the best thing you can do is just to disable them one by one (go to Tools / Add-ons), then measure how long it takes for Firefox to boot up each time. This will allow you to single out the worst "offenders".
Also clear up the cache and browser history, perhaps try decreasing the cache size, use some tool for optimizing Firefox databases (Speedyfox for example), there's many ways to speed Firefox up.
Good news is that the upcoming versions of Firefox are supposed to be improved in the areas of speed and responsiveness (the raising popularity of fast and snappy Google Chrome forced them to focus on it)
April 17th, 2009 on 4:08 am
Was reading through about this. Try the following instructions
Setting default browser manually
In Windows XP, go to "Start -> Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> Set Program Access and Defaults (on the left) -> Custom". After expanding the "Custom" category, you will see Internet Explorer and other installed browsers listed under "Choose a default Web browser". Select Mozilla or Mozilla Firefox.
If that doesn't work,
In Windows Control Panel and if Windows XP is using the Control Panel "Classic View":
Click on "Folder Options -> File Types".
In Windows XP using the Control Panel "Category View":
Click on "Performance and Maintenance". Then, click on "File Types" in the left column under the heading "See Also".
Assign the following filetypes to the browser you wish to set as default:
URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol
URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy
URL:File Transfer Protocol
HTML File
HTM File (optional)
Note that you may find the URL file types above under extension "N/A" or "(none)".
Cheers & Bottoms Up
April 18th, 2009 on 3:32 am
Offcourse you can,Go to prefrences and Change POP-up to block state
Watch this one!
with some additional how to change it
i think this is more than enough if you need hand let me know
Ta
April 18th, 2009 on 10:31 am
Password Exporter is a Firefox add-on that allows you to export and import your saved usernames and passwords between Computers or keep as a backup copy. Your passwords will be exported to an XML or CSV file and can be encrypted.
Or, you can do it the manual way:
First, navigate yourself to your profiles folder and then you want to copy three files, they are named:
signons.txt
signons2.txt
key3.db
Copy and past them into the place you want to back them up to, and you are done. You can also move these three files to a new Firefox profile (say on a new computer, for example) if you wanted to have the same password information on your laptop.
April 18th, 2009 on 1:29 pm
To setup yahoo email as your default mail using Firefox 3 (Yahoo now recommend you use this browser) and it will work with Vista.
* Download and install firefox 3 http://downloads.yahoo.com/?p=win
* After installation and when you have Firefox 3 up and running, click "tools", then "options".
* In the options window that pops up, click the applications tab.
* Scroll down to “mailto” and change to “use yahoo mail”
* Finally click “OK”.
April 18th, 2009 on 3:02 pm
You cannot use Firefox to download from the Microsoft Update site. Turn on Automatic Updates instead – then you get the best of both worlds
wdw
April 19th, 2009 on 5:16 am
Even after setting Firefox to be your default browser, Yahoo! messenger still uses IE (at least this was happening to me when using Vista and a fresh install of Yahoo! Messenger).
I found this website http://www.lifespy.com/2007/windows-tip-how-to-make-yahoo-messenger-use-firefox-as-default-browser-in-vista/
"Click the Start menu
Click Default Programs (It's the same for XP except Default Programs is "Set Program Access and Defaults)
Click “Set program access and computer deaults”
Select Custom then click on the drop arrow
Look for “Choose a default web browser” and select Mozilla Firefox
Click OK"
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April 19th, 2009 on 7:16 pm
Check out the FEBE extension which can help you backup/restore not only bookmarks but also extensions, preferences, passwords, cookies or even your entire profile.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2109
April 19th, 2009 on 8:45 pm
Yeah,, need to use a different rendering engine, check this out, IE tab for FF.. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
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