Firefox T-shirt! February 29, 2008

AMO (Addons.Mozilla.Org) recently e-mailed all the extension developers (one of them would be me) to encourage us to update our extensions for Firefox 3 Beta 3 compatibility.

The prize: A Firefox 3 t-shirt!

I e-mailed Mozilla and apparently most of us should be getting them 2 - 3 weeks after March 18th.

To claim this wonderful T-shirt, go into AMO, login, update your extension for Fx3B3 compatibility (if it’s just a version bump, I don’t think you need to re-upload) and then go back and select T-Shirt request.  Fill in the data and you’re set.

I updated my NeoAddict Roots Build Extension for Rantings of an IB Student, but it hasn’t been approved yet.  Once it has, I shall tell ya. 

Minefield November 19, 2007

Minefield (Firefox 3 Trunk), the eater of WordPress posts.  It just likes to freeze when I’m in the mood for blogging.

Anyways, my propaganda on Mr Steven’s board seems to have yielded some results.  The Campbell IB group now stands at 42 members.  ^_^

Anyone have any comments?

Hello?

No one?

Best song of the week: Dance Floor Anthem by Good Charlotte

Unfortunately, my iPod cover art decided to die too.  Stay tuned.

Firefox 3 Proposed Features + Today’s Rant June 5, 2007

Mozilla Corp. is considering adding a tool to Firefox 3.0 that would automatically block Web sites thought to harbor malicious downloads, but the company’s security chief refused to spell out details, saying Mozilla is “not ready to talk about the feature.” Even so, there are numerous details to be found on a blog by a Firefox designer and in a back-and-forth discussion of the feature in Bugzilla, the management system that Mozilla uses to track changes in its software. Together, the two offer a behind-the-scenes look into Mozilla’s open-source development process.

“Similar to how Firefox 2 blocks Web sites that are potentially going to try to steal your personal information, Firefox 3 will block Web sites that we believe are going to try to install malicious programs on your computer,” said Alex Faaborg, a user experience designer in a blog entry last week. “Mozilla is coordinating with Google on this feature.” And in a Bugzilla entry that offers comments from Mozilla and Google employees — including Chris Hofmann, Mozilla’s director of engineering, and Mike Shaver, its director of ecosystem development — information is even more free-flowing about malicious site blocking in the next major update to Firefox.

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I was originally gonna rant about how anime/manga readers fail because they know jack about Japan, but I’ve replaced it with a rant about Opera.

I mean Opera is cool and everything, but it severely lacks in the GUI/Extensions/Stability/Flash areas. It’s absolutely disgusting on Linux. But the memory usage is very pwnful though, I must admit. But it’s so ugly…

Anyways, nothing much today.

Read more about random stuff in English, specifically audio media. Not exactly the most interesting thing in the world.

Watched Finding Nemo in Science, which is a blessing. Mr Greenslade is an awesome teacher.

Vocab test soon in French. D:

In Phys Ed, I got creamed because Mike does not have very 1337 football skills. Skid for a few metres on my hands and knees. -.- Back still aches.

Did an ugly brass rubbing today in Social.

Voila. My horrible life rant is now done.

YOUR ATTITUDE SUCKS! (y/n)

Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4 + Random May 31, 2007

“Yesterday saw the release of Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.4, the latest update to the Mozilla Corporation’s flagship browser. Firefox 2.0.0.4 improves support for Windows Vista and fixes several security flaws. Details about the security fixes can be found in the Firefox 2.0.0.4 section of the Mozilla Foundation Security Advisories page.The Firefox 2.0.0.4 Release Notes have more details about this release. Firefox 2.0.0.4 can be downloaded from the Firefox product page. For the first time, localised Afrikaans and Belarusian editions are available.Most existing Firefox 2 users will be alerted to the new version by the software update feature built in to the browser. For the first time, this upgrade will also be offered to users of Firefox 1.5.0.12 via the 1.5 software update system. This is intended to get all Firefox users on the latest version so that the Mozilla Corporation can end support for Firefox 1.5.”

So, update people.

Opera is pretty gimped up with WYSIWYG, that’s for sure.  Flash is messed up on it.  But it uses less memory.  And I got it pretty awesome with the skin I have now.

I got accepted into pre-IB!  w00t!  I (don’t) look forward to the homework.  LOL.

Did some random story in English, which was amazingly boring.

Played around with shoes in Science.

Learned about il faut and we have to do this paragraph in French.

Mr Cherkas’s rant about football positions was so long and boring.  :’(  I almost fell asleep 5 minutes in.

Finally, we have to do this funky court thing in Social.  XD

Hundreds Click on ‘Click Here to Get Infected’ Ad May 19, 2007

Over the course of 6 months, 409 people clicked on an ad that offered infection for those with virus-free PCs. Didier Stevens, who ran the ad via Google Adwords, works for Contraste Europe, a branch of the IT consultancy The Contraste Group. Stevens says that he got the idea after picking up a small book on Google Adwords at the library and finding out how easy and cheap it is to set up an ad. “You can start with a couple of euros per month. And that gave me an idea: this can be used with malicious [intent]. It’s a way to get a drive-by download site on the first page of a search.”

Stevens bought the drive-by-download.info domain, set up a server to display a “Thank you for your visit” message and to log the requests. No PCs were harmed in this experiment, he emphasizes. Then he started the Google Adwords campaign, using combinations of the words “drive-by download” along with the ad. His ad was viewed 259,723 times and clicked on 409 times, for a click-through rate of about 0.16%. The experiment cost him $23, or 6 cents per click/potentially infected machine.

Of the 409 people who clicked, 98% were running Windows machines, according to the user agent string, which is a text string that identifies a Web site visitor to a server. Users using different versions of IE, Safari, Opera, Firefox and SeaMonkey all clicked the ad. Stevens says that he designed his ad to make it look fishy, but he had no problem getting Google to accept it and has had no complaints to date. And, although a healthy amount of people clicked on it, he said there’s “no way to know what motivated them to click on my ad. I did not submit them to an IQ-test.” Stevens said he’s sure he could get much more traffic if he invested more in his Google Adwords budget and came up with a better designed ad.

Source: Neowin