Re: Web Browsers

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From: ropers
Date: Friday, December 18, 2009 - 1:49 pm

2009/12/18 Brad Tilley <misc@openbsd.org>:

Some people wouldn't consider these strictly *security* features, but
if you're using Firefox it helps to be aware of
  firefox -ProfileManager
and use that to keep stuff separate. Additionally, you can also use
-no-remote and -P <profilename> to concurrently run two or more
firefox instances with different profiles. Cf.:
  http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

Also be aware that even after you've deleted all traditional cookies,
so-called "Flash cookies" (LSOs) may still persist, and sneaky sites
do use those to track you as well.
One add-on that you can use to kill those is this;
  http://netticat.ath.cx/BetterPrivacy/BetterPrivacy.htm
(And even after deleting all cookies and LSOs, sites can still tell
what other places on the web you've been to, due to CSS leaking that
info, which may be unfixable, cf. e.g.
http://www.amirharel.com/2009/09/20/css-privacy/ )

Finally, if you use Adblock Plus, you owe it to yourself to also use
Element Hiding Helper.

This will not necessarily make Firefox "more secure than others", and
there are lots of things about Firefox that suck ass, but the above
will, "tighten [its] security", at least for some value of security.

--regards,
ropers
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Web Browsers, nixlists, (Fri Dec 18, 12:25 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Brad Tilley, (Fri Dec 18, 12:50 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Jesus Sanchez, (Fri Dec 18, 1:22 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, ropers, (Fri Dec 18, 1:49 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, ropers, (Fri Dec 18, 1:53 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Marco Peereboom, (Fri Dec 18, 2:07 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Bryan Irvine, (Fri Dec 18, 2:22 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Antoine Jacoutot, (Fri Dec 18, 4:01 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, nixlists, (Fri Dec 18, 4:12 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Bryan Irvine, (Fri Dec 18, 4:24 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Chris Bennett, (Fri Dec 18, 4:29 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Marco Peereboom, (Fri Dec 18, 4:31 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Internet Retard, (Fri Dec 18, 4:42 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Bob Beck, (Fri Dec 18, 5:52 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Christopher Linn, (Fri Dec 18, 8:06 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, David Vasek, (Sat Dec 19, 6:11 am)
Re: Web Browsers, Julian Leyh, (Sun Dec 20, 1:54 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Ted Unangst, (Sun Dec 20, 3:48 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Robert Bronsdon, (Sun Dec 20, 5:50 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, nixlists, (Wed Dec 23, 12:39 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Paul Irofti, (Wed Dec 23, 7:39 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Nick Guenther, (Thu Dec 24, 12:54 am)
Re: Web Browsers, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera, (Fri Jan 1, 12:40 am)
Re: Web Browsers, Theo de Raadt, (Fri Jan 1, 12:47 am)
Re: Web Browsers, Nick Guenther, (Fri Jan 1, 2:02 am)
Re: Web Browsers, Theo de Raadt, (Fri Jan 1, 2:13 am)
Re: Web Browsers, fquinonez1, (Fri Jan 1, 4:53 am)
Re: Web Browsers, Andrej Elizarov, (Fri Jan 1, 12:51 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Ted Unangst, (Fri Jan 1, 1:27 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Bryan, (Fri Jan 1, 2:40 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Nick Guenther, (Fri Jan 1, 4:02 pm)
Re: Web Browsers, Siju George, (Mon Jan 4, 6:24 am)