Category: Mozilla Firefox

one fine day, DNS stopped working. the reason this time was NOT on the server-side, but on the Google side, blocking all DNS servers that are NOT google. while this can be understood in the terms of CyberSec: + (manipulation […]

Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]

update: 2022-05: okay… maybe Mrs Baker did not “destroy” Firefox-Mozilla, but at least brought it into the financial dependency on Google-Alphabet. this means: massive amount of money for Mozilla “the deal, which ZDNet estimates is worth between $400 and $450 […]

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0 Hello Dear Mozilla / Dear Firefox management & DevTeam, using this rss app to stay up to date with various open source related blogs & sites., what cought the user’s eye […]

prologue: (u can skip it) SmartPhones try to spy and collect data, that why SmartPhone games and weather-apps are usually free. Because the user pays with user data. What even fuels the paranoia are stories like these: in 2011 Rothschild […]

Pure Beauty: “the glow” “IT JUST WORKS” 🙂 wifi works two-finger-scroll touchpad works sound works (hey! startup sounds are important 🙂 admitted: the keyboard will need some time of getting used to X-D (per default Macbook Pro A1278 would run […]

setup LAMP GNU-Linux Apache2 MariaDB PHP7.3 su – root; # become root apt update; # update system to latest apt upgrade; # database first apt install mariadb-server mariadb-client # set root pwd for database (can be root on dev test […]

SecurityLab, [24.03.20 08: 05] Cybercriminals hack Windows PCs through a previously unknown vulnerability in the Adobe Type Manager library (atmfd.dll) used by the operating system to process PostScript type 1 fonts. Microsoft described attacks exploiting this vulnerability as “targeted” and […]

if the user wants to take GNU Debian Linux (MATE Gnome2 Desktop) for a USB-Stick or VirtualBox test drive, check out the video instructions! pros: kind of easy to use (completely redone gui needs re-learning for all that were used […]

now WITH SPICY COMMENTS X-D SecurityLab, [22.12.19 12:40] A Twitter user using the alias 08Tc3wBB created tfp0-an exploit that allows you to jailbreak the latest iPhone models with IOS 13.3. The functionality of the exploit has already been confirmed by […]

SecurityLab, [25.11.19 15:44] The Creator of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee) presented an action plan to protect the network from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other harmful influences. Tim Berners-Lee: “control of information is hugely […]

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox Browser, or simply Firefox, is a free and open–source (src: Wikipedia) web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. even when mozilla is (financially) having a tough time, security should be everyone’s top […]

were you annoyed by Youtube Ads? Me not. thanks to addons like uBlock. Firefox Addons & Privacy – can addblockers be trusted – uBlock AddBlockPlus uMatrix – etc. now those addons of Firefox suddenly stopped working, this is pretty annoying: […]

web3d awesome! you can walk here with cursor buttons and tilt up and down with mouse wheel: and even upload your own pictures:   http://www.spacegoo.com/tiananmen/# marbleous: But the website itself is pretty impressive: unfortunately the tux web flying simulator did […]

salt water crocodile with gps transmitter on its back (src) “The word is derived from Greek roots: tele = remote, and metron = measure.” telemetry is in general about the health of systems but also humans and apparently animals. what […]

Thanks! thanks to all the contributors of open source soft- and hardware and people that share their knowledge online for free 🙂 i hope/think that better technology could possibly also change humans to the better… freely sharing information surely does […]

Firefox: einfach auf die Links klicken, dann auf “Add” to Firefox… und nochmal mit “OK” bestätigen. Neue Rechtschreibung: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary/ Alte Rechtschreibung: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary-de_de-for-sp/ … jetzt kann man(n)/Frau auf jeden beliebigen Text eines Formulares R-Click und … sich nie wieder vertippen X-D […]

By Ernesto on July 25, 2018 Mozilla sees intellectual property legislation as a threat to the open Internet because it stifles creativity and innovation. The foundation, best known for its development of the Firefox browser, is now asking the NTIA […]

first of all – thanks for this cool mail client 🙂 Thunderbird NEEDS THE USER’S DONATIONS more than ever! checkout their blog and subscribe to rss What is cool: Thunderbird is Open Source and respects the user’s mails privacy Thunderbird […]

applies to: Mozilla Firefox 53.0 (64-Bit) It happened by accident… Ctrl+Shift+X   and suddenly your text is written in another direction…i think hebrew is writing from right to left.   Left to right, horizontal The following writing systems are written […]

one’s mistake: Chrome is simply a name for a “frame”. The naming is imho badly chosen. BSI: Firefox only browser to meet criterias (src) Google has given money to Mozilla foundation to make Google default search engine per default… this […]

who/what to trust in 2022? it’s hard… “A February 2020 research report published by the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin tested six browsers and deemed Brave to be the most private of them, in terms […]