Link love and flock-pushing credits to Nettendenser.dk: Flock: Web 2.0 samlet i én browser

Tags: flock, browser, firefox

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I then tried upgrading to the recent beta of Firefox 3, but none of my extensions worked there, so back to my buggy Firefox again.

What about your Firefox – unstable. What did you do?

@ work all the mac users have all kinds of visual goodies – and this extension actually lets me taste a bit of that eyecandy – the images slide, dip, and zoom in a 3D fashion I really didn’t expect from a mere firefox extension… Furtermore PicLens lets you search a range of image repositories in full-screen using (this far you can search in Google, Yahoo, SmugMug, Flickr, Photobucket, and DeviantArt). Nice.

Oh – the link: PicLens for Firefox

So to answer your question – why am I writing about foxes running wild? Well, mostly because I immediately came to think of my own little firefox reading this. I too run across some roads on the internet – and the bad things that can happen to you out there are not as obvious as a 14-wheeler truck. Phishing, spoofing, illegit cookies and on and on are daily threats on the internet. So, what ways are there to protect Firefox from all the bad traffic out there?
I’ve been looking at this extension for firefox:

Google Safe Browsing is an extension to Firefox that alerts you if a web page that you visit appears to be asking for your personal or financial information under false pretences. This type of attack, known as phishing or spoofing, is becoming more sophisticated, widespread and dangerous.

Google Safe Browsing for Firefox

…any more suggestions for enhancing privacy and safe browsing?

[Image from Wild Nature Images]

Update:
Version 3 of Firefox will (among others) have these security features:

• One-click site information. Want to know more about the site you’re visiting? Click the site’s icon in the location bar to see who owns it. Identify information is prominently displayed and easier than ever to understand.
• Malware protection. Firefox 3 warns you if you arrive at a web site that is known to install viruses, spyware, trojans, or other dangerous software (known as malware). You can see what the warning looks like by clicking here.
• Web forgery protection enhanced. Now when you visit a page that’s suspected of being a forgery, you’re shown a special page instead of the contents of the page with a warning. Click here to see what it looks like.
• Easier to understand SSL errors. The errors presented when an invalid SSL certificate is encountered have been clarified to make it easier to understand what the problem is.
• Out-of-date add-on protection. Firefox 3 now automatically checks add-on and plugin versions and disables older, insecure versions.
• Secure add-on updates. Add-on update security has been improved by disallowing add-ons that use an insecure update mechanism.
• Anti-virus integration. Firefox 3 now informs anti-virus software when executable files are downloaded.
• Windows Vista parental controls support. Firefox 3 supports the Vista system-wide parental control setting for disabling file downloads.

Read more here: Firefox 3 for developers

I’ve been trying with adsense units too, but they don’t convert either. I’m not into prOn or poker – and so I decided to try affiliating for a hosting company I’ve been looking at: AN Hosting. They have pretty cheap hosting and they support the wordpress community (woot). There’s one click wordpress installation and so on and so forth. I figured that people searching for firefox extensions would be more prone to be interrested in cheap web hosting than people browsing for say Foosball tutorials.

The sign up is easy and there’s a long range of banners, buttons and links for the affiliate marketer to frolic in. Go have a look at their affiliate program (oh – and that’s an affiliate link too )

Anyways – here’s the banner from AN Hosting – not too pretty, but cheap it is:

Simply link to Microsofts IE page
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx) with the text ‘We love Firefox‘ and see what happens…

Further thougts:
It might be pure folly to compete with the massive amount of firefox linktexts out there, and I thus considered to try out a less competitive phrase: getting firef*cked

Now two extensions will let you export/backup your extensions (FEBE) and even package your extensions in .xpi files for easy sharing with others (CLEO) – go have fun

If you need proof that it works go see my firefox extensions. Here I also made a test package of my favorite firefox extensions for you to download.

History:

UPDATE 3:Ashley left wonderful information, linkting to a couple of extensions that will backup firefox themes and extensions.

Update 2: I’ve started to map all extensions and possible solutions to export firefox extensions on this page.

Update: MozBackup only supports backup for predifined extensions… The site invites users to ask for other extensions to be imported, but there’s quite a gap between the existing list to my list.

The solution would be some kind of export function for extensions. Googling leads me here , but I’d rather have a list of urls to the various extensions’ locations and then install them from their sources.
Anyhows MozBackup seems to be the best option at the moment, but as it is a program running on my laptop, I’m not too keen on that solution.

(actually, I found MozBackup via this site – which is in turkish, I think)

Update:
Wordpress2 now installed – no fuzz, no stress. Only bump on the way was to learn to always backup before upgrading (or atleast omit to delete config-file…)