Dr.Web anti-virus link checker 1.0.15

Available for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Mozilla's Thunderbird, the free Dr. Web Anti-virus Link Checker extension adds a context-menu option that scans files for viruses before you download them. The program opens up a new window, and even with a 400 MB file it took about 15 seconds to return a green-themed "Clean" window for a virus-free result.

The red-tinted "Infected" pops up if you're about to perform some risky behavior.


Just install the plugin for your browser:

• For Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird
• For Internet Explorer
• For Opera

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Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition

Your browser, your way... in your pocket™

Mozilla Firefox_®, Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.

Features

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps.com launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go.

Download Details

• File size: 6.1MB (download), ~25Mb (installed)
• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and Mozilla
• Date updated: July 31, 2007
• System Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista, Wine on Linux/UNIX*
  * when running under Wine, the system default font will be used
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, Firefox: MPL/GPL/LPGL under Mozilla EULA)
  

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2.0.0.6 for Windows, English 6.1MB

[Via http://portableapps.com]

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The Alexa Toolbar for Firefox

Sparky is a free FireFox browser plugin that accompanies you as you surf, providing useful information about the sites you visit without interrupting your Web browsing.

• Learn about Website Traffic Trend information.
• Get detailed traffic information including Reach and Rank.
• Surf more efficiently with Related Links for each page.

Install Alexa Sparky 1.1

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CustomizeGoogle

Google has become many people's de facto entry point to the Internet. If you want to tweak how the search site works, you'll love CustomizeGoogle, possibly the most useful Firefox extension you'll ever see.

For example, if you don't like the ads that appear on the right-hand side or at the top of the page, you can use CustomizeGoogle to make them disappear; do a search, and they're gone. The extension can also add links to other search sites, so you can use other search engines directly from Google. And if you add a History link to each search result, it can find old versions of a Web pages. Click the link, and you'll be sent to the WayBack Machine site, which caches old versions of Web pages.

Worried that Google may invade your privacy? The extension can block cookies from being sent to the Google Analytics service, which web site proprietors use to track visitor behavior on their pages.

There's plenty more here as well, such as the ability to customize Gmail by removing ads. You'll find dozens of ways to change how Google and all its services work.

[Via PC World]

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Researcher Publishes Attack Code for Mozilla Flaw

Hacker posts details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine.

Robert McMillan, IDG News Service

Mozilla Corp. is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine.

The flaw lies in Firefox's URL handler component, which was the source of another bug, disclosed Tuesday by Mozilla.

This second flaw was disclosed Tuesday by Billy Rios and Nathan McFeters, security consultants with Verisign Inc. and Ernst & Young LLP respectively.

Like the first flaw, this one could be exploited by attackers to launch programs on the victim's PC without authorization, said Tyler Reguly, a security research engineer at nCircle Network Security Inc. "They're both related to the URL handling process," he said "It's just different errors within that handling process."

Even though the code posted by Rios and McFeters can only be used to launch software that is already installed on a victim's PC, it could be very dangerous if used by criminals, Reguly said. "It's still letting you run any program that exists on the user's computer," he said. "You can make it do some fairly bad things. For example, having it use command-line FTP to download a malicious file off a server somewhere and then execute that file."

A victim would have to be tricked into clicking on a malicious link for the attack to work, Reguly said.

Mozilla's security chief Window Snyder, said that her team is working to verify and fix this latest flaw.

Firefox's URL handler has been a headache for Mozilla ever since security researcher Thor Larholm showed that the way Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox interact with each other could be exploited to launch software on a user's machine without authorization. To make the attack work, IE would load malformed data from a Web site, and would then send it to Firefox, which would launch the unauthorized software

Microsoft Corp. and Mozilla disagreed about who was at fault, however. Snyder initially said that the attack wouldn't work on Firefox alone and that Microsoft should change the way IE passes malformed data to other programs. Microsoft said that the problem lay with Firefox.

While disclosing details on the first URL handler bug on Tuesday, Snyder admitted that she was wrong. "We thought this was just a problem with IE. It turns out, it is a problem with Firefox as well," she said. "We should have caught this scenario."

Mozilla is planning to fix this issue in the upcoming 2.0.0.6 release of its browser. Snyder did not say when the Billy Rios bug would be patched.

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Firefox Add-ons

VideoDownloader
by Javi Moya

Download videos from Youtube, Google, Metacafe, iFilm, Dailymotion and other 60+ video sites ! And all embedded objects on a webpage (movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, etc)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2390


NoScript
by Giorgio Maone

Winner of the "2006 PC World World Class Award", this tool makes Firefox the safest browser around.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722


IE Tab
by PCMan (Hong Jen Yee), yuoo2k

IE Tab - an extension from Taiwan, features: Embedding Internet Explorer in tabs of Mozilla/Firefox...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419


Fasterfox
by Tony Gentilcore

Performance and network tweaks for Firefox...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1269


FoxyTunes
by Alex Sirota

Do you listen to Music while surfing the Web? FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios and much more with a click right from your browser.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/219


Image Zoom
by Jason Adams

Adds zoom functionality for images...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/139

Download Embedded
by Andrew Ruder

Downloads all or selected embedded objects on a webpage. Can be used for downloading movies, mp3s, flash, quicktime, or other embedded files (although this does NOT work on video embedded in flash [ youtube, video.google.com, etc
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1993


Translator

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3361

Screengrab!
by Andy M
Screengrab saves entire webpages as images...



https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1146

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Tips for Mozilla Firefox

1

Open tabs with one click Instead of right-clicking a link and choosing Open Link in New Tab, click a link with your mouse's scroll-wheel button to open it in a new tab. You can also click that tab with your scroll wheel to close it. (You may have to disable any function assigned to your click wheel for this to work, however.)

2	One-click combos Don't have a scroll wheel? Hold down Ctrl while left-clicking a link to open a URL in a new tab, or hold Shift and left-click to open a URL in a new window.

3

More on Autocomplete To eliminate your AutoComplete history in Firefox, go to Tools > Options > Privacy. In the Saved Form Information area, click the Clear button. To disable this feature entirely, click on the plus symbol next to the Saved Form Information area and uncheck "Save information I enter in web page forms."

4	Keep tabs on your tabs You can control how new tabs open in Firefox in one of three ways: Open the page in a new window, open the page in a new tab in the front window, or replace the current page in the front window. Click the Advanced section of the Options window to customise it to your liking.

5	Smooth sailing Put an end to jerky document scrolling by enabling Firefox's "Use smooth scrolling" feature in the Advanced section of the Options window.

6	Search in shorthand Type a word in the address bar, then hit Ctrl+Enter to automatically add http://www and .com to the beginning and end, respectively, of the word. (Ctrl+Shift+Enter adds .org, and Shift+Enter adds .net.)

7	Zoom in and out Hit Ctrl and the plus sign to increase text size on your current Web page or Ctrl and the minus to decrease it. To restore the original size, hit Ctrl+0.

8	Open a tab To open a particular tab in Firefox, hit Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+9. Tabs aren't numbered, though, so you'll have to physically count them.

9	Use live bookmarks Get the latest headlines from your favourite RSS news sites and blogs. Just click the square, bright-orange icon in the bottom right corner of your browser and click "OK to save as bookmark." The Live Bookmark will now function as your RSS aggregator.

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Safari 3 Internet Browser for Windows

Launching a vicious attack at microsoft’s Internet Explorer dominance in Window’s web browsing market, Apple unleashed their very own Safari Internet Browser for Window users.

We’d like Safari’s market share to grow. We are bringing all the Safari innovations to Windows. What we’ve got is the most innovative browser in the world and the fastest browser on Windows… " Steve Jobs, Apple chief executive,

Apple will distribute Safari as part of its iTune online store that sells music, movies and other content for the company’s globally popular iPod MP3 players.

Below are top 12 features which you will like about Safari.

1. Blazing Performance
2. Elegant User Interface
3. Easy Bookmarks
4. Pop-up Blocking
5. Inline Find
6. Tabbed Browsing
7. SnapBack
8. Forms AutoFill
9. Built-in RSS
10. Resizable Text Fields
11. Private Browsing
12. Security

Download the world’s best browser, Safari 3 Public Beta, today!

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