Your internet\web browser is a medium for you to connect to the internet or online world. On the other hand, it is also a medium for those online threats like Trojans, viruses, spyware, spam, fake free online virus removal software (which are threats themselves ) etc. to slip in to your computer.
Considering the risk of rising online threats, privacy infringements, and data\identity thefts etc., it should be your priority to safeguard your web browser. How you can do this is explained here in this article. This free Mozilla Firefox support guide will help you tighten the security noose around your Mozilla Firefox browser and prevent malware, phishing, spam etc. from intruding in to your computer.
Procedure:
Mozilla Firefox -
If you are using Mozilla Firefox as your web browser, check these instructions to make it secure. Open Mozilla Firefox from the desktop shortcut. Alternatively, you can open it from the Start button, All Programs. Click the Tools tab and point down to select Options. Depending on the type of your Firefox version, the first tab you will see will either be General or Main. Under this tab, look for the Always ask me where to save files option.
This option will be disabled by default. Instead the Save Files to option will be set by default to the Downloads folder or any other default directory. You will need to select the Always ask me where to save files option. It will enable you to have more control on the downloadable items that will seek for your permission before being automatically downloaded to the Downloads or any other location in your computer.
Now click the Privacy tab. look for the Remember What I enter in forms and the search bar option. This will enabled by default. You will need to disable this option. To do so, click to uncheck the box beside this option. Depending on your Firefox version, you may see Remember search and form history instead of Remember What I enter in forms and the search bar. Uncheck this option and move on to the next option which is Accept cookies from sites.
This option will be enabled. From the drop-down menu next to Keep until, you will see the default option set to they expire. This means that your browser is set to remember and keep all the cookies (small files that keep track of your online activities) until they expire. Now you can understand that this can be very dangerous, at least in case of phishing, malware websites that create and roll out malicious add-ons, virus, malware software, fake online virus removal software, malware removal software etc. Cookies of these websites track and collect your online activities and personal information for their own advantage.
Thus, set this option to enable the user permission. Click the drop-down arrow next to Keep until and select ask me every time. From the next time onwards, whenever you will open a website, Firefox will seek your permission to either allow or deny cookies to run on that webpage. If it is trusted website like Firefox or Microsoft, you can click the Allow button or simply Allow for Session button. If you choose the latter option, the cookies will save and track your activities only for the time till the webpage is opened. So, Firefox will no longer save cookies when the webpage is closed.
For malicious or suspected websites, you can simply hit the Deny button. You can even view the cookie information and decide accordingly whether to allow or deny a cookie. Now click the Security tab and verify that the Warn me when sites try to install add-ons option is checked. If it's not, check it. Under the Passwords section, click to check the box beside Use a master password option. This option not only lets Mozilla Firefox manage all your stored passwords but also encrypts your computer data. Choose this option only if you trust Mozilla Firefox.
When you choose this option, it will ask for your current password (blank if it is not already set) and new password. Confirm the password and hit the OK button. Now click the Content tab and deselect the Enable Java box. Now click the Advanced button next to Enable JavaScript. In the Advanced JavaScript Settings window, remove checkmarks from all the boxes and hit the OK button to close it. Besides, enable the Block pop-up window option.
When done, click the OK button to save the changes and close the Options window. Firefox might prompt you to restart the browser to save these changes. Hit the Restart button and Firefox will close and reopen. When done, download these plug-ins viz. HTTPs plug-in, AdBlockPlus, and Ghostery. You must download the Firefox version of all these plug-ins.
Besides, use an antivirus program that scans and protects your Firefox browser from different tracking cookies, malicious websites, malicious scripts, spam add-ons etc. A number of antivirus programs like McAfee have a site-scan feature that proactively warns you about a website's genuineness and maliciousness.
Besides these settings, you must download and install latest browser updates and patches whenever these are available. Though Firefox always prompts you to download install whenever an update is available, but you can also manually download them from the Firefox website. Choose what suits you best, but do install latest updates.
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الثلاثاء، 1 مايو 2012
Top 8 Firefox Add-Ons for Web Development
As a web developer, you can never have enough tools to help make web development faster and more efficient. Mozilla's Firefox web browser has a feature called add-ons (similar to extensions or plugins), which add extra features to the browser. Note: Not all add-ons are available for all OS platforms. The add-ons discussed here are compatible with Firefox 11, OS X Lion 10.7.3.
Firefox 11 by default already has very impressive tools for web development. It includes (descriptions from the Mozilla website):
Web Console - Lets you see logging messages from your JavaScript code, JavaScript and CSS errors and network activity. Search and filter to find just the events you need to look at. Plus, you can directly interact with and explore your page via JavaScript.
Page Inspector - Peek right into the styling of any Web page by visually selecting the page element that you're interested in.
Scratchpad - Scratchpad lets you write JavaScript code that can interact directly with the contents of a Web page.
With these powerful tools already included, there are actually even more features you can add to Firefox for even more power. Here are my favorite add-ons specifically used for web development:
Web Developer 1.1.9 - Also known as the Web Developer Toolbar (WDT), this add-on installs various web developer tools to the browser. It will allow you to quickly disable any JavaScript, CSS or image files on website. The toolbar also gives you easy access to any cookies, meta tag information, and forms on the web page you are viewing. One of my favorite features is the ability to auto fill forms for form testing. The "name" of the form element will be used as the form value, so when testing a form with many fields, this feature will save you plenty of time. The truth is, the WDT has so many different features, I haven't been able to use them all yet!
Firebug 1.9.1 - Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. It's like the built in Web Console and Page Inspecter but with more features. Some developers will debate on which is better, WDT or Firebug. From my experience, WDT is more suited for front end designers that do a lot of CSS coding and Firebug is better for JavaScript/AJAX debugging and web development. I say use them both.
MeasureIt 0.4.10 - Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels. This ruler is one of the handiest add-ons I've used.
Firesizer 1.7 - Allows you to resize the window to specific dimensions. This add-on shows the dimensions of the current browser window in pixels.
HTML Validator 0.9.5.2 - Adds HTML Validation to the View Page Source of the browser. The add-on is based on Tidy and OpenSP, both algorithms that were originally developed by the Web Consortium W3C. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page. If you care about your code being valid, then try this out. Although the WDT has a HTML validator feature, those validation results are shown to you from an external website, rather than being shown along with the page's source code.
Rainbow 1.5.1 - This add-on has a color picker and eyedropper + saving colors. It allows you to try out colors with drag and drop. Want to know the hexadecimal notation (HEX) color of a particular blue that is in a jpeg image without needing an image editor (like Photoshop)? With Rainbow, it's no problem.
Lazarus: Form Recovery 2.3 - Lazarus securely auto-saves all forms as you type, so after a crash, server timeout, or whatever, you can go back to the form and get the form data back. If you have a lot of forms that need testing and would like to use actual form content, this add-on will make it a less tedious task.
FireFTP - FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP/SFTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP/SFTP servers. If you are experienced with FileZilla, FireFTP will be familiar.
And of course, the latest version of Firefox can be downloaded from the Mozilla website.
Firefox 11 by default already has very impressive tools for web development. It includes (descriptions from the Mozilla website):
Web Console - Lets you see logging messages from your JavaScript code, JavaScript and CSS errors and network activity. Search and filter to find just the events you need to look at. Plus, you can directly interact with and explore your page via JavaScript.
Page Inspector - Peek right into the styling of any Web page by visually selecting the page element that you're interested in.
Scratchpad - Scratchpad lets you write JavaScript code that can interact directly with the contents of a Web page.
With these powerful tools already included, there are actually even more features you can add to Firefox for even more power. Here are my favorite add-ons specifically used for web development:
Web Developer 1.1.9 - Also known as the Web Developer Toolbar (WDT), this add-on installs various web developer tools to the browser. It will allow you to quickly disable any JavaScript, CSS or image files on website. The toolbar also gives you easy access to any cookies, meta tag information, and forms on the web page you are viewing. One of my favorite features is the ability to auto fill forms for form testing. The "name" of the form element will be used as the form value, so when testing a form with many fields, this feature will save you plenty of time. The truth is, the WDT has so many different features, I haven't been able to use them all yet!
Firebug 1.9.1 - Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. It's like the built in Web Console and Page Inspecter but with more features. Some developers will debate on which is better, WDT or Firebug. From my experience, WDT is more suited for front end designers that do a lot of CSS coding and Firebug is better for JavaScript/AJAX debugging and web development. I say use them both.
MeasureIt 0.4.10 - Draw a ruler across any webpage to check the width, height, or alignment of page elements in pixels. This ruler is one of the handiest add-ons I've used.
Firesizer 1.7 - Allows you to resize the window to specific dimensions. This add-on shows the dimensions of the current browser window in pixels.
HTML Validator 0.9.5.2 - Adds HTML Validation to the View Page Source of the browser. The add-on is based on Tidy and OpenSP, both algorithms that were originally developed by the Web Consortium W3C. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page. If you care about your code being valid, then try this out. Although the WDT has a HTML validator feature, those validation results are shown to you from an external website, rather than being shown along with the page's source code.
Rainbow 1.5.1 - This add-on has a color picker and eyedropper + saving colors. It allows you to try out colors with drag and drop. Want to know the hexadecimal notation (HEX) color of a particular blue that is in a jpeg image without needing an image editor (like Photoshop)? With Rainbow, it's no problem.
Lazarus: Form Recovery 2.3 - Lazarus securely auto-saves all forms as you type, so after a crash, server timeout, or whatever, you can go back to the form and get the form data back. If you have a lot of forms that need testing and would like to use actual form content, this add-on will make it a less tedious task.
FireFTP - FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP/SFTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP/SFTP servers. If you are experienced with FileZilla, FireFTP will be familiar.
And of course, the latest version of Firefox can be downloaded from the Mozilla website.
How to Fix Firefox Memory Leak Problem With Firemin
"Fixed Memory Leak" - that's what we often heard from Firefox developers. But from my experience, it has always been the same. If you're using Firefox for a while (hours or days without closing it down), and If you open up your task manager you'll be surprised to see how much memory the Firefox process is eating.
I've tried installing the earlier version hoping that the previous ones doesn't eat that much memory. I've tried Firefox version 4, version 5, version 6 and 7. But unfortunately, no matter what Firefox version i use the memory leak problem is still there.
I'm a web designer by profession and Firefox is my browser of choice. Honestly, the reason i'm still using it now despite the memory leak problem is because of the very useful and powerful plugins e.g. Firebug, MeasureIt, ySlow, PageSpeed, Web developer.
Some of the Firefox plugins above are also available in Google Chrome, but the add-ons in Firefox is still much powerful than of Chrome's.
Because of Firefox memory handling problem, and because i can't work well having a "Not Responding" message almost all the time, i decided to find a solution on how to fix Firefox memory leak problem. Luckily I've found the solution to fix Firefox memory problem.
Fix Firefox memory leak problem with Firemin
Firemin sits idly on the background (and on your Windows system tray) and manages Firefox's memory behind the scene. Firemin fixes Firefox memory leak by optimizing Firefox memory usage and defragmenting Firefox database.
I've tried installing the earlier version hoping that the previous ones doesn't eat that much memory. I've tried Firefox version 4, version 5, version 6 and 7. But unfortunately, no matter what Firefox version i use the memory leak problem is still there.
I'm a web designer by profession and Firefox is my browser of choice. Honestly, the reason i'm still using it now despite the memory leak problem is because of the very useful and powerful plugins e.g. Firebug, MeasureIt, ySlow, PageSpeed, Web developer.
Some of the Firefox plugins above are also available in Google Chrome, but the add-ons in Firefox is still much powerful than of Chrome's.
Because of Firefox memory handling problem, and because i can't work well having a "Not Responding" message almost all the time, i decided to find a solution on how to fix Firefox memory leak problem. Luckily I've found the solution to fix Firefox memory problem.
Fix Firefox memory leak problem with Firemin
Firemin sits idly on the background (and on your Windows system tray) and manages Firefox's memory behind the scene. Firemin fixes Firefox memory leak by optimizing Firefox memory usage and defragmenting Firefox database.
تقارير الملكية
As at the service of investors access to their securities deposited with the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) very easily, and a general and comprehensive perspective, where investors can see that balances all financial assets and the level of all investment portfolios with any of the licensed brokerage firms. It also provides this service for access to some important information associated with the Governor of investment such as bank account numbers, numbers, investment portfolio, as well as personal information of the investor.
Service reports include ownership of securities of all categories, whether shares, or instruments, or bonds, or index funds. This service allows also be found on the certificates of shares owned by the investor and the knowledge of its details, in the case of personal identification number linked to the investor as it is restricted in the records of the SDC in the circulation. In addition, this service is characterized by providing knowledge of the value of the assets of the securities at the level of all the Governor or at the level of individual portfolios, as well as at the level of the type of security.
Service reports include ownership of securities of all categories, whether shares, or instruments, or bonds, or index funds. This service allows also be found on the certificates of shares owned by the investor and the knowledge of its details, in the case of personal identification number linked to the investor as it is restricted in the records of the SDC in the circulation. In addition, this service is characterized by providing knowledge of the value of the assets of the securities at the level of all the Governor or at the level of individual portfolios, as well as at the level of the type of security.
About the Trades
System aims to provide these services add value to all parties to the investment process and the Saudi capital market as a whole, through:
Investor awareness of their investment and increase the level of trust and transparency have in relation to the financial origins.
Activating the role of investors in general and that by enabling them to vote in the association, access to benefits, profits, and provide them with letters of reminder notices periodically for the most important events of the relationship, and other benefits.
Contribute to bridging the gap between listed companies and its shareholders through the development of a mechanism to communicate with each other.
Access to a wide variety of reports in an easy and safe through the primary source of information for securities (SDC).
Provide an ongoing mechanism to verify the data saved in the circulation and updated.
These goals combined will ultimately enhance the efficiency of the Saudi capital market in general through the promotion and consolidation of the concepts of transparency in the market and increase awareness among investors.
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