UPDATE for Wednesday, September 30, 2009: Firefox 3.5.3 won’t open on XP (even in safe mode.) I uninstalled and reinstalled 3.0.13. It works on Vista, but crashes with tabs lost at minimum of 3x+ per day. UPDATE for Sunday, September 13, 2009: upgraded to Firefox 3.5.3 at the end of last week and I am [...]
If you are new to WordPress and using Microsoft Word as your editor, TinyMCE for WordPress, and Firefox as your browser there are a few steps that you will need to take so that you do not end up with a messy and annoying front end of garbled and coded text. This is what the [...]
It is time to blow the dust off this blog and get back into updating the Tekblog on a regular basis! I must confess that I have been ultimately quite lazy since the New Year began. The move took a huge amount of energy and I am still not completely unpacked. The storage room has [...]
Researchers have detected a Trojan horse program that targets only Firefox users. Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A places itself in the Firefox plug-ins folder and uses JavaScript to detect when users are visiting specific banking websites; the malware then steals the login credentials and sends them on to a server in Russia. Users’ computers become infected either through drive-by [...]
My concern over clickjacking (that I posted late last month on the Tekblog) appears to be resolved for safe surfing in Firefox with the upgrade of a security tool called NoScript with clearclick. BTW, I strongly believe that Firefox is one of the most secure web browsers on the internet today. Google, IBM Internet Security [...]
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