As I’ve mentioned before, Firefox is highly customizable. You can add themes, extensions and plug-ins to add new features to your browser. But there are lots of configuration options that you can change as well. I am not just talking about those that you can get to via the Tools, Options…menu. Firefox has a ‘control panel’ of sorts, called about:config. To access, simply open a new tab and in the address bar type about:config.But wait, there is another and ‘easier’ way to get tot this ‘control panel’. It is the AboutConfig extension, once installed you can add a button to…
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One of the neat features of Firefox is the ability to customize the browser with Extensions, Themes and Plug-Ins. But sometimes there are problems a theme does something funky to your browser. Or may be an extension goes haywire and gets corrupted. Then there is the site you visit that just doesn’t behave or display the way it should (missing plug-in). Finally, lets add into the mix, multiple builds & versions of Firefox. There are so many possibilities of what could be the problem. If you have a lot of extensions (last count for me was 40) installed, it is…
The Maps+ Extension has quickly become one of my favorites. I use Yahoo!Maps quite frequently as I do many of the Yahoo! tools. Yahoo!Maps is great but when it comes to finding an address listed on a website it is a bit of pain: Copy the street address for the site Switch to the Yahoo!Maps tab and paste Switch back to the other tab and copy the city and state OR zip code. Switch back to Yahoo!Maps tab and paste Click get map. NO MORE! Once this extension is installed all you need to do is highlight the address (including…
NOTE: This extension works only with FF builds/version 1.5 and above. While looking around Mozilla Add-ons today I came across and interesting extension called PoliticianSearch. It was built off the DictionarySearch extension (advantages of open-source) and once installed will add an option to your context (right-click) menu to Search Project Vote Smart… To use, simply highlight the (US) Politician’s last name, right-click and select the ‘Search Project Vote Smart’ option. Once installed you can try it out now by doing a search on our Governor, Janet Napolitano. If you don’t have the extension installed yet, click here to open the…
A little something different today. As I mentioned in my bio, I am originally from California, Los Angeles area to be more exact. The plays off between the (Los Angeles) Lakers and (Phoenix) Suns has been tough for me. Granted, The Lakers are not the same team they were from back in the 80’s, but then again neither are the Sun’s as they were in 1993 (remember Charles Barkley!). June 1993, ‘Suns Fever’ as they had made it all the way to the finals. However in 1993, the Chicago Bulls proved to be too much for the Suns. The play…
A fellow member on Go Firefox! posted me a link to this article from Wired News today. An anonymous spammer wrote into Wired News claiming to be “one of the spammers behind (the) Blue Security scandal”. There is one paragraph of the article that stands out and shows the effect that the Blue Frog is having on their business. “The point of it is to get Blue Frog software to stop turning its subscribers’ computers into zombies that attack our servers,” the spammer wrote. “If you want to be removed from our mailing list, please opt out first.” If only…
It has been quite a war… PharmaMaster (Russian Spammer) vs The Blue Frog. First they sent tons of spam messages with misleading information, threatening and extorting us Blue Frog Members to remove ourselves from the registry or get tons more spam. They repeated this again and again. Then they really started playing dirty, they sent more spam but disguised it as to look as the messages were from members of Blue Frog. Again, providing misleading information about Blue Security. To further up the ante, launched a denial of service (DoS) attacks against Blue Security sites. Another bombardment of Spam from…
Well the good news it seems Blue Frog/Security’s website is back up, the bad news… Blue Security’s servers are currently under attack. Our staff is working around the clock to restore normal operation as soon as possible. We are extremely happy to see the overwhelming level of support and global presence the Blue Community is showing. Thank you for your patience! We’ll have to wait to see how this plays out in the next couple days. As for my spam count…getting more recycle and future spam on the Yahoo! account, but 99% of it is being caught and deposited into…
As of this evening, Blue Frog/Security’s sites are completely inaccessible, more about this in a bit. Now allow me to back up to last night. A couple things happened that I found odd but would have had no idea they were related: When I went to bluesecurity.com last night it took me to the their blogs site (bluesecurity.blogs.com) Earlier in the evening I was experimenting with Live Journal when that site started becoming very sluggish and some points inaccessible. I was thinking the troubles with Live Journal seemed all too similar to those at Blue Frog/Security, but these could not…
For a brief time last night I was able to access the blogs portion of Blue Security’s site. Here is a portion of their Blog entry for 05/03: The Blue Independence War “Today is Israel’s Independence Day. It’s a public holiday in Israel, but all of us in Blue Security are working. But we are glad we’re working. We’re helping the community fight the Blue Independence War. We fight for our freedom from spammers and cyber criminals. This is our big chance to reclaim the Internet. We must not let it slip from our hands. Some desperate spammers are doing…