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Firefox 3 Site Identity Security

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008

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I am still exploring features in Firefox 3. Found an interesting new security feature called “Site Identity” to share with you. Browsing a normal Website, we might not have security concern. How about when you order goods online? Or application that need your personal or financial information? Make sure the party is trustable before send out these sensitive data.

How to know whether it is a trustable Website? Here the Site Identity feature comes in. This feature allows you to see whether the Web site has supplied information about their identity, who has verified that information, and whether they protect your information from eavesdroppers. This is just like you will make sure the person is trusted before hand over your money to him/her. Am I right?

Site Identity Levels

There are 4 types of Site Identity Levels. Each level provide different identity information. The higher level give better security. The site identity level listed from highest to lowest in sequence. (more…)

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Refine Firefox 3

Friday, June 20th, 2008

Finally installed Firefox 3 in my computer. I tried to run the Free SMS software but still not able to. Although they claimed that it is compatible with any web browser, it just won’t run for me.

Firefox 3 has been out for download for quite some time. I did not upgrade mine because many feedback its compatibility problem with add-ons. After the RC 1 and RC 2 (release candidate), now come to final release on latest version. As a tech blogger, I have to adopt the changes and explore its new features.

Refine Firefox 3 Drawbacks

After install Firefox 3, I was excited to check out its new features. But I feel sad on first impression. At found 2 drawbacks that I don’t like: URL bar and add-on compatibility problem. (more…)

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Create Multi User Profiles in Firefox

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Since my wife Chrissie enter into the blog world, now we have total of 3 blogs for all my family members. That is myself here, my wife and my baby.

Since I only have one desktop computer at home (my online earning still not able to buy me one laptop), we got problem to share the same web browser - Firefox. We all know the advantage of Firefox, so do not compromise to use other web browsers.

Especially when we need to leave some account logon such as Flickr, MyBlogLog, and Twitter, so that we could use on the spot when we need it. Its really not practical for us to login and out every time.

Create Multi User Profiles

Create multi user profiles can resolve this problem. So far, as I know Firefox can be set. Not sure if others web browser like IE able to do that? Anyway, we are not going to use IE :)

Actually, its quite simple to create multi user profiles with few easy steps. (more…)

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Donation: Mozilla Donates 500 Millions Grains Free Rice

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

It was already 10 years since Netscape launched mozilla.org to develop its open source project. It’s most well known project - Mozilla Firefox has been reached its success milestone by achieve 500 Millions downloads.

With this achievement, Mozilla willing to donate 500 Millions grains of rice to feed the world’s poor and hungry people.You could contribute part of this 500 Millions grains of rice!

How to Donate Free Rice?

Play the vocabulary game on Free Rice and donation with go to the hunger. No sign up, no login, no hassle. Just goto Free Rice homepage, answer the word meaning with objective choice. For each word you answer correctly, Mozilla donate 20 grains of rice (money earn from ads) through the UN World Food Program to help end hunger in over 75 countries.

According to the United Nations, about 25,000 people die each day from hunger or hunger-related causes, most of them children. While you answer the vocabulary game correctly, you are actually helping one of these child to have some food on that day. So why don’t join now? There is no limit, do what ever you can! :)

My two cents

Mozilla is so kind to organize this charity work. Hope the money generated from the website can save some life in poor countries. I myself have contributed 100 grains of rice to them by answered 5 question correctly! How many grains have you contributed?

Tips: Check out the word’s meaning at Dictionary.com (English dictionary) or Tigernt.com (Eng to Chinese dictionary)

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