You can extract passwords from Gator (or any browser's password manager) one at a time with the "view passwords" bookmarklet. Be sure to tell your client that vanilla IE (new versions) and Mozilla Firebird have built-in password remembering, so he won't have to type his passwords each time after he gets rid of Gator.
There are also some password managers that can import from Gator. Roboform is an example. I don't know if I trust any of them, though.
Autoscroll (trigger by middle-clicking on a web page)
Important bug fixes since 0.6.1:
206029: Flash plugin installer breaks firebird (really a bug in the Flash installer, but firebird works around it)
210910: Right-clicking a file within a bookmarks folder in the bookmarks menu or toolbar makes that folder inaccessible. (Fixed for the most common cases.)
212556: scroll wheel sometimes stops working after app switch
199819: setting browser.formfill.enable (save form information) to false doesn't disable form autocomplete (partly fixed)
205893#c31: Should no longer cause GDI problems on Windows. (Example GDI problem: when you open about 100 large images in 0.6, the browser stops redrawing content and even its user interface.)
212686: down arrow into autocomplete causes other autocomplete results to disappear
Important bug fixes between 0.6 and 0.6.1:
205989, 206026: Two JS/DOM bugs that broke bookmarklets
184202: Autocomplete crash
212487: Autocomplete is one character behind typed text (this fix caused 212686)
Regressions in 0.7:
214310: removing parent of focused elem breaks mouse wheel and textboxes (shacknews.com dthread mode).
218894: After closing history sidebar, search results remain (but search text does not).
Several password manager bugs (218135, 218927, 220734, 217439).
Stuff you should know:
The "Quick Launch" feature (-turbo) has been removed (217026).
If you store multiple passwords for a site, Firebird will no longer show a dialog listing the usernames you have stored (216541). Instead, Firebird will fill in your password after you fill in your username. You can get the list of stored usernames by pressing the down arrow in the username textbox.
Firebird does not refuse to use some old themes (217410). If you use one of these themes, your scrollbars and back/forward buttons will go missing.
Not all security holes in Bugzilla are public. For example, bug 217195, which I reported, is marked as security-sensitive. Bugs that are marked as security sensitive usually aren't made public until after a release (such as 1.5) that includes the fix.
On the other hand, the code and information about changes to the code are public. For example, you can search bonsai to find out that this checkin was associated with bug 217195. I'd be impressed if you could construct an exploit based on that patch, though.
"The checksum algorithm was changed by Google sometime in May 2002. It was consistent from December 2001 (or earlier) to May 2002, but then it changed.
"It's not too surprising that the algo was changed. What's more surprising is that Google cleverly does not return an error message for PageRank queries coming in that use the obsolete checksum. Instead of an error message, you get bogus PageRank values. These values are typically plus or minus two complete digits on the 0-10 scale. Sites that were a 7 might be a 9. One site that was an 8 became a 10.
"This is the famous Google sense of humor at work.
"Since the toolbar is self-updating, the checksum algo can be made a moving target. Anyone who goes to all the trouble to decompile and analyze the algo, still has to keep checking with the latest toolbar in Explorer, to make sure the PR values coming back are not bogus due to a change on Google's end. Whatever clever program anyone writes after cracking the checksum algo will not be self-updating from Google, I presume.
"None of us likes using Explorer with the Google toolbar. But Google makes the rules, and Google finds ways to make us play by their rules."
Google intentionally makes life difficult for people who try to duplicate the pagerank-checking feature of the Google Toolbar. I'm not sure why, but my guess is that it's to make it more difficult to discover Google's PageRank-calculating algorithm.
Why are the rules for passwords often so screwed up?
A) Many people make the rules, and all want the passwords for their system to be as secure as possible (tragedy of the commons)
B) One person makes the rules, and doesn't think of the consequences of the rules.
C) One person makes the rules, and would rather the users be blamed for choosing bad passwords than the rule-maker be blamed for having lax security policies.
num= tells Google how many results to return at a time. You're thinking of start=, which tells Google how many results to skip.
It is a bug that num=0 results in the message "Your search - msn - did not match any documents" rather than doing one of the following: A) ignoring the nonsense num=0. B) informing you that you told it to return 0 results per page.
Mozilla 1.5b is not based on Phoenix (which was renamed to Mozilla Firebird). Mozilla 1.5b is still the old Seamonkey suite. I don't know when mozilla.org will declare fb+tb to be its main products or whether fb+tb will inherit seamonkey's version numbering when that happens.
In the meantime, development on Mozilla Firebird is still active. Recent Firebird nightlies have been great and 0.7 will probably be released within a week.
I love that compiler! I still use it when I need to write a simple program, even though it's from 1992. MSVC is slow and annoying, and gcc doesn't have an IDE with help.
Here's the complete example:
/* Emits a 7-Hz tone for 10 seconds.
True story: 7 Hz is the resonant frequency of a chicken's skull cavity. This was determined empirically in Australia, where a new factory generating 7-Hz tones was located too close to a chicken ranch: When the factory started up, all the chickens died.
Your PC may not be able to emit a 7-Hz tone. */
#include <dos.h>
int main(void) { sound(7); delay(10000); nosound(); return 0; }
We all also know that following best practice as an administrator will turn the possibility of attack into a moot point.
Virus scanners protect you from slow viruses. They do not protect you from fast viruses. They do not protect you from someone trying to trick an employee into running code designed to damage your company. If you've already done what's necessary to protect yourself against attacks in general, what's the point of using a virus scanner?
I would still expect street lights, which cause more light pollution than indoor lights, to make Columbus show up. Unless Columbus doesn't have street lights.
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How do you "go into the database"?
That's a cookie. This article is about spyware.
You can extract passwords from Gator (or any browser's password manager) one at a time with the "view passwords" bookmarklet. Be sure to tell your client that vanilla IE (new versions) and Mozilla Firebird have built-in password remembering, so he won't have to type his passwords each time after he gets rid of Gator.
There are also some password managers that can import from Gator. Roboform is an example. I don't know if I trust any of them, though.
Because it still has 29% marketshare according to Google.
TiVo: You love it or you haven't met it.
Or your job involves television advertising.
New features since 0.6.1:
Important bug fixes since 0.6.1:
Important bug fixes between 0.6 and 0.6.1:
Regressions in 0.7:
Stuff you should know:
- The "Quick Launch" feature (-turbo) has been removed (217026).
- If you store multiple passwords for a site, Firebird will no longer show a dialog listing the usernames you have stored (216541). Instead, Firebird will fill in your password after you fill in your username. You can get the list of stored usernames by pressing the down arrow in the username textbox.
- Firebird does not refuse to use some old themes (217410). If you use one of these themes, your scrollbars and back/forward buttons will go missing.
sourceNot all security holes in Bugzilla are public. For example, bug 217195, which I reported, is marked as security-sensitive. Bugs that are marked as security sensitive usually aren't made public until after a release (such as 1.5) that includes the fix.
On the other hand, the code and information about changes to the code are public. For example, you can search bonsai to find out that this checkin was associated with bug 217195. I'd be impressed if you could construct an exploit based on that patch, though.
So you're saying that working for an ISP is a good way to find child porn? Thanks.
To suggest a search result to Google, create a link. In this case, create a link with "child porn" as the link text and goatse as the link target.
Do you mean the song "penguin lust" by annwn? (Someone said it contained lots of references to Bloom County...)
This is a comment by "Doofus":
"The checksum algorithm was changed by Google sometime in May 2002. It was consistent from December 2001 (or earlier) to May 2002, but then it changed.
"It's not too surprising that the algo was changed. What's more surprising is that Google cleverly does not return an error message for PageRank queries coming in that use the obsolete checksum. Instead of an error message, you get bogus PageRank values. These values are typically plus or minus two complete digits on the 0-10 scale. Sites that were a 7 might be a 9. One site that was an 8 became a 10.
"This is the famous Google sense of humor at work.
"Since the toolbar is self-updating, the checksum algo can be made a moving target. Anyone who goes to all the trouble to decompile and analyze the algo, still has to keep checking with the latest toolbar in Explorer, to make sure the PR values coming back are not bogus due to a change on Google's end. Whatever clever program anyone writes after cracking the checksum algo will not be self-updating from Google, I presume.
"None of us likes using Explorer with the Google toolbar. But Google makes the rules, and Google finds ways to make us play by their rules."
Google intentionally makes life difficult for people who try to duplicate the pagerank-checking feature of the Google Toolbar. I'm not sure why, but my guess is that it's to make it more difficult to discover Google's PageRank-calculating algorithm.
Why are the rules for passwords often so screwed up?
A) Many people make the rules, and all want the passwords for their system to be as secure as possible (tragedy of the commons)
B) One person makes the rules, and doesn't think of the consequences of the rules.
C) One person makes the rules, and would rather the users be blamed for choosing bad passwords than the rule-maker be blamed for having lax security policies.
num= tells Google how many results to return at a time. You're thinking of start=, which tells Google how many results to skip.
It is a bug that num=0 results in the message "Your search - msn - did not match any documents" rather than doing one of the following:
A) ignoring the nonsense num=0.
B) informing you that you told it to return 0 results per page.
I think (A) would be more Google-like.
Do you use Opera because it's European, too?
Mozilla nightlies include a workaround to this bug in the AOL server. See bug 210229.
In what browser? Mozilla sends referers for links with target="_blank".
Your roman numeral list isn't right. iiii = iv = 4 (iv is preferred).
Mozilla drivers set the date-based milestone schedule ahead of time.
Mozilla 1.5b is not based on Phoenix (which was renamed to Mozilla Firebird). Mozilla 1.5b is still the old Seamonkey suite. I don't know when mozilla.org will declare fb+tb to be its main products or whether fb+tb will inherit seamonkey's version numbering when that happens.
In the meantime, development on Mozilla Firebird is still active. Recent Firebird nightlies have been great and 0.7 will probably be released within a week.
I think --enable-plaintext-editor-only prevents midas (wysiwyg editing in html forms) from working.
I love that compiler! I still use it when I need to write a simple program, even though it's from 1992. MSVC is slow and annoying, and gcc doesn't have an IDE with help.
/* Emits a 7-Hz tone for 10 seconds.
Here's the complete example:
True story: 7 Hz is the resonant
frequency of a chicken's skull cavity.
This was determined empirically in
Australia, where a new factory
generating 7-Hz tones was located too
close to a chicken ranch: When the
factory started up, all the chickens
died.
Your PC may not be able to emit a 7-Hz tone. */
#include <dos.h>
int main(void)
{
sound(7);
delay(10000);
nosound();
return 0;
}
We all also know that following best practice as an administrator will turn the possibility of attack into a moot point.
Virus scanners protect you from slow viruses. They do not protect you from fast viruses. They do not protect you from someone trying to trick an employee into running code designed to damage your company. If you've already done what's necessary to protect yourself against attacks in general, what's the point of using a virus scanner?
I would still expect street lights, which cause more light pollution than indoor lights, to make Columbus show up. Unless Columbus doesn't have street lights.
Especially if you use Windows, and someone gives you a virus. This is why we have anti virus software to stop cyber terrorists.
Anti-virus software only protects you from viruses. It does not protect you from other malicious code.