Posts Tagged ‘firefox bookmarks’

17 Firefox tips to enhance your browsing experience

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I have been using Firefox for quite sometime now and still there are features that I haven’t uncovered yet. Quite often I come across a useful feature that I was not aware of. I would like to share those tips as and when I learn about them. Here are a few Firefox tips which [...]

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Vulnerablility discovered in how Firefox handles bookmarks

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Michal Zalewski has discovered an interesting vulnerability in how Firefox handles bookmarks.
It is relatively easy to trick a casual user into bookmarking a window that does not point to any physical location, but rather, is an inline data: URL scheme otherwise convincingly pretending to be a “tangible” webpage.
When the bookmark is later clicked, javascript [...]

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