Firefox Extension - Password Exporter

While I prepare myself to upgrade to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I've been backing up my data before I reformat my good old hard disk which currently has Mandriva 10.1.

In the process of the backup, I needed a Firefox password saver which would let me save passwords and then import them later - Password Exporter turned out to be the perfect answer - lets you export/import passwords to either a XML file or a CSV file and your xml file can be encrypted too. Neat.

Fuller Screen - using entire screen for browsing

Fuller Screen is a extension that enhances the existing Firefox Full Screen mode into a really full screen mode, hiding the remaining toolbars and statusbar and making them visible again when the mouse pointer hits an edge of the screen - more like a autohide mode

The autohide seems to be a little flaky though - and I am not sure if too many people use Fullscreen anyway - I am trying it out and finding a little hard to get adjusted - thats primarily because I use Live BookMarks, a lot of extensions like Firebug, del.icio.us, Foxclocks which reside on the toolbars.

Give it a try

Bugmenot !

If you haven't heard of this yet - well, you are not missing signups!. I've been using Bugmenot for about four years now and it's a REAL time saver So, instead of going to nytimes.com and registering for an account - you just use the "public" username and password that's already available at bugmenot Check Bugmenot There is a Firefox extension as well

apxs - APache eXtenSion tool

apxs is a apache tool which lets you build and install apache extensions. All the modules built using apxs are loaded dynamically at runtime using the LoadModule directive

To know more about apxs - head to the Apache site

Mask your Site

We present to you a few feature as well as security enhancements to mask your webserver and site from web attacks!

• Do not use a default extension even though you use a language like php or aspx. If you can make it go away in entirety - the better! And do use Clean URLs Search engines love Clean URLs
• Modify your header information so that it returns something not so obvious. Take a look at mod_headers module
• Do not use CGI or SSI (Server Side Includes) - both of them are heavy on the server and vulnerable to attacks
• If you have a popular site, you might want to consider using something like Modsecurity which is a web application firewall which allows real time monitoring and analysis
• Get a book - Apache Security is a good start
  

Netscape Extensions

Netscape has released 2 browser extensions that allows you to check your sitemail and track your friends' activity. Pretty good. I am hoping they have more tech stuff or even India news for me to visit them more often. Am sick of Digg - slow and mostly useless news

Refcontrol - Control your referrer info!

Refcontrol lets you block/forge/customize referer information. You can customize referer information for specfic sites as well. This is useful because some sites - such as rediff or indiatimes send your login id when you click on a link from your mail

Quite a useful Firefox extension to have !

Install it!

Learn about Referer

Firefox Extension - User Agent Switcher

User Agent Switcher lets you change the User-Agent of your Firefox browser - useful for those pesky developers who think their html pages will work only on a particular browser

Get User Agent Switcher

Fight against Phishing!

PhishTank SiteChecker gives Firefox users a way to bring the community judgment of PhishTank into their favorite browser, for extra protection against phishing.

It sits on your Firefox status bar and tells you whether the site you are visiting is safe! Unsafe known sites are blocked and users are provided with an option to continue.

Get this useful extension

Firefox Extension - Download Status Bar

Hate that pesky Downloads window which takes eternity to comeup and disappear ? Get this neat Firefox extension which shows the status of your download on the status bar of your browser!

Get Download Statusbar

Tab Mix Plus - the power user's extension

Tab Mix Plus - the Firefox extension has so many features that I can't describe over here. You will have to experience it!

Among other things - Tab Mix Plus does Link Management, Tab Management , Mouse Gestures, Session Restore(after crashes). Indeed one of the best extensions in there. Supports Firefox 2.0 as well.

Get it

IE7 Addons Site

Microsoft has an official Add-ons site for IE7 - is an equivalent of the Firefox Add-ons Site. The Add-ons are distributed through exe (executable) files and are added to your Add-Programs list

Greasemonkey & userscripts

It's been quite sometime since I used Greasemonkey. I have started using it again and am so impressed with the number and the quality of scripts at userscripts.

For who haven't heard of Greasemonkey - Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML ("user scripts") to any web page to change its behavior. In much the same way that user CSS lets you take control of a web page's style, user scripts let you easily control any aspect of a web page's design or interaction.

Forecastfox - your free weatherman

Forecastfox is a Firefox extension that can sit almost anywhere on your browser and show up the current and the forecasted weather conditions for your city - pretty accurate weather from accuweather.com. Try it out

Trackmenot - messing the search engine data

Trackmenot is a Firefox extension which lets you 'protect' yourself from surveillance and data profiling by the search engines. Basically, it sits in the background on Firefox and keeps sending random ghost search queries to various search engines including Google, Yahoo, MSN & AOL

Download the Firefox extension

AllPeers - share your files on Firefox

AllPeers is a Firefox Extension which lets you share files privately and securely. It requires you to register through the extension. Pretty nifty if you want to quickly share big files with your mates.

Download AllPeers here