Posts Tagged ‘firefox’
Firefox Addons for Penetration/XSS Testing
Posted on October 14, 2010 by snipe in Featured, PHP/mySQL, Web Development
2010 was supposed to be the year of the Tiger, but it’s felt more like the year of Pwny so far. This article covers some Firefox add-ons that help you test your own apps, whether you’re working with a penetration tester, or by default, you are the penetration tester.
Firefox Add-On ErrorZilla breaks FF3 SSL error page
Posted on July 8, 2008 by snipe in Tips & Tricks
If you use the Firefox add-on ErrorZilla, which conveniently displays additional options (Try Again, Google Cache, Coralize, Wayback, Ping, Trace, and Whois buttons) when Firefox hits an error page, you may notice something frustrating happening in Firefox 3.
Sync Your Browsers Across Multiple Computers with Mozilla Weave
Posted on July 2, 2008 by snipe in Life Tools
Those of you who have upgraded to Firefox 3 may be feeling the loss of Google Browser Sync, Google’s free Firefox addon that previously allowed you to sync bookmarks, stored password, cookies and more across multiple computers. For folks like me, who work on multiple computers throughout the course of the day, this was an [...]
Hacking Firefox
Posted on June 23, 2008 by snipe in Featured
Excellent (and long) article here that covers most of the frequently-asked-for tweaks and hacks to about:config in Firefox. I had originally found it while trying to remember how to tweak my Firefox so that when I type in a keyword string into the address bar, it would send me to Google search results, instead of [...]
Tweak Firefox 3 to Display Richer Colors
Posted on June 22, 2008 by snipe in Tips & Tricks
If the digital photo you just uploaded looks more washed out in Flickr than it does in your desktop image editor, that’s because Firefox 3′s advanced color management capability isn’t turned on by default. To turn it on, type about:config in Firefox 3′s address bar, then click the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button. Then, [...]
Firefox extensions I can’t live without
Posted on January 15, 2007 by snipe in Featured, Geek Life, Life Tools, Tips & Tricks, Web Development
The full list of Firefox extensions that I consider absolutely mandatory. All of these work with FF 2, and many work with older versions. All but one or two have also been updated to work with FF 3. (List last updated Aug 26, 2008.)
