Spruce up your firefox with lightweight themes – Personas

Head over to Firefox addons site  for persona <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10900" target="_blank">here. This addon will give you the ability to change the look and feel of the browser without restarting it. Though it is not completely like themes and does not change the look and feel of the buttons and plenty of other things but this does make the browser a lot better. Here are some screenshots to show you how it feels like:

Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft

Silent Install Firefox Plugin Backfires on Microsoft Whilst it&#8217;s not okay in Microsoft&#8217;s eyes for Google to install a plugin into Internet Explorer, increasing the potential surface area of attack, when Microsoft do it to Firefox, it&#8217;s a different matter. Now a security hole has been found in a plugin that Microsoft have been silently installing into Firefox.

URL: <a href="http://osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft">http://osnews.com/story/22358/Silent_Install_Firefox_Plugin_Backfires_on_Microsoft

Extract all urls from the last firefox sessionstore.js file used.

Some taken from commandlinefu. What all the below commands are doing is basically that the url: is captured from the sessionstore.js file and then just  extract the URL from the line. These are done in various ways using perl, <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/sed" title="Sed" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sed">sed and <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk:

Break Free and let firefox remember all the passwords even the ones that are not saved by default

Here we go against one more security policy of most of the sites like Bank and paypal and so on. These sites do not allow Firefox or any other browser to save the password. This is using some tags in the html/code of the page that would mark the field as not completeable or savable. So, what do you do?

I am on a home computer to which no one has access so why not save the password!! Let do it. There are couple of hacks that have been found to make firefox remember all the passwords. Here are a few of them (but Linux is not covered in any of them).<h1 id="article-title"><a title="Permanent Link to Tweak Firefox’s Password Saver Without An Extension" rel="bookmark" href="http://cybernetnews.com/2006/06/07/tweak-firefoxs-password-saver-without-an-extension/">Tweak Firefox’s Password Saver Without An Extension <h1 id="article-title"><a title="Permanent Link to Make Firefox Remember Passwords without a Bookmarklet" rel="bookmark" href="http://cybernetnews.com/2009/02/13/firefox-remember-passwords/">Make Firefox Remember Passwords without a Bookmarklet

x-marks saving lives.

Couple of days back my TeraByte HDD crashed and I lost almost everything, including my homedir. I will tell you my experiences and how my measures helped me lose not much data. So I will begin with one of the most important aspects. My BROWSER.

I have all my passwords stored in the browser and I rely on them so it is not stored anywhere else. Also, I have lot of bookmarks which help me do lot of stuff. Meaning, all these are very important for me. So, I had a backup plan for my passwords and bookmarks.

Citibank Doesn\’t Want Your Business, Linux Users

This is an article from the Citibank customers in US.

The Consumerist: &#8221;Citibank won&#8217;t let customers using Linux computers log in to their online accounts. Adam argues that in 2009 this doesn&#8217;t make sense, especially when no other major corporate website blocks him like this.&#8221;

URL: <a href="http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-31-001-39-IN-BZ-SW">http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-10-31-001-39-IN-BZ-SW

But in India too we don&#8217;t have much too different environment. Though I do not have any issues with the Citibank site, but I have HDFC Insurance. I always pay the premium online. This time the payment failed couple of times and the amount was deducted from my account. When checked with the Customer Service Desk, the confirmed that the payment option does not work on Firefox with Linux. For this time I have made the payment using Cash, but why should there be OS discrimination.

feedly– addon for firefox if you have a lot of subscriptions for Google reader.

Download feedly <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8538">here. Feedly is the way to go if you have lot of subscriptions or otherwise too if you would like to see some changes in the way the google reader looks. Here&#8217;s the description:

A magazine-like startpage. A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites and services. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Frienfeed, Delicious and YouTube.

and a screenshot: