Browser Security News

Sure, you can use the plain vanilla Firefox, but even though Firefox is already a gazillion times easier to use than IE, not to mention more reliable, adding selected extensions increases its power and adds functionality that you didn’t even realize you wanted. In my opinion, Firefox extensions are awesome.
As I’ve mentioned countless times before, […]

Users of Internet Explorer and Firefox will enjoy increased computing security for the anti-keylogger tool protects all logins, not just one or two sites, and does so by encrypting the user’s keystrokes at the kernel driver level, before keyloggers can record them.
KeyScrambler Professional, available at $24.99, encrypts not only logins but everything a user types […]

Using the Firefox ‘Clear Private Data tool’, I set my privacy settings on my Firefox to clear the following when closing:
* browsing history
* saved form information
* download history
* cache
* authenticated sessions
Trouble is, when I needed […]

AllPeers released a beta Thursday of what it called the most ambitious Firefox extension to date, a peer-to-peer application that would allow friends and family to share files and content between one another in a private setting.
Unlike the major P2P networks, AllPeers allows the sharing of files securely and privately.
The application has been released on […]

To many, a Firefox extension is more magic than technology, and the process by which it is developed and used is shrouded in mystery. To find out more about Firefox extensions and their capabilities, we asked some extension-related questions of the Mozilla Foundation’s technology strategist, Mike Shaver.

A UK developer who goes by “Tones” has created a Flock-specific extension that puts Meebo, and therefore Yahoo, AIM, Gtalk and MSN IM, directly into a sidebar in the Flock browser (the extension also works for Firefox). Since Flock and Meebo are two startups I use, this looked interesting.