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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Gary Britt
date: 2007-06-07 20:14:08
subject: Re: Cool Firefox Add-on

From: Gary Britt 

I'm not expert enough to know, but it seems to me that noscript, cookie
safe, and flashblock are security enhancement must haves.  I don't see how
the internal eye candy ones would be security risks, but I'm no expert.

Gary

Rich Gauszka wrote:
> I don't doubt that there are good FF extensions. I've used quite a few
> in the past but currently I just wonder if they are worth the potential
> security risk.
>
>
> Gary Britt wrote:
>> See my response to Richard.  You might be missing some good ones.
>>
>> Gary
>>
>> Rich Gauszka wrote:
>>> I use FF but I keep my extensions to the minimum ( none ) as I feel
>>> they're yet another potential exploit waiting to happen.
>>>
>>> http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/464875/100/0/threaded
>>>
>>> Firefox extensions go Evil
>>>
>>>
>>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>>> news:46683a7e$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>>> Hey for all you firefox users out there, I just happened on an
>>>> extension I think is pretty cool.  Its called "Tab
Effect" and what
>>>> it does is when a new tab is opened or switch from one tab to
>>>> another it animates the switch by having the current page and the
>>>> page you are changing to swing around as though the pages were on
>>>> the sides of a cube so the cube turns and the current page swings
>>>> out of view and the new page swings into view.  Its pretty cool and
>>>> doesn't take anything special in terms of hardware or video card.
>>>>
>>>> I like it anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Gary
>>>
>>>

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