About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: ChatZilla, NoScript, StumbleUpon, Google Toolbar, Greasemonkey, List of Firefox extensions, Gears, Adblock Plus, McAfee SiteAdvisor, Firesheep, Activeweave, DejaClick, Universal Edit Button, QuteCom, Fasterfox, LastPass, Add-on, Lightning, IE Tab, Firefox Sync, Wengo, OneRiot, Moji extension, Stickis, FlashGot, Filterset.G, Mitto, Operator, Google Notebook, Firebug, AllPeers, Stylish, FireFTP, Google Browser Sync, Finjan SecureBrowsing, Enigform, FoxyTunes, Venkman, ShiftSpace, Petname, LibX, Enigmail, Morning Coffee, Flashblock, FastestFox, Linkextend, AOL Toolbar, Mozilla Jetpack, Yolink, DOM Inspector, SQLite Manager, WiseStamp, Firefox Showcase, Image Zoom, Lily, International Sideboard, AniWeather, All-in-One Sidebar, Web Developer, ScrapBook, PDF Download, Rikaichan, Sage, CoScripter, Forecastfox, Tabulator, Flagfox, Webmail Ad Blocker. Excerpt: NoScript is a free and open-source extension for Mozilla Firefox, SeaMonkey and other Mozilla-based web browsers. NoScript allows executable web content such as JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight and other plugins only if the site hosting it is considered trusted by its user and has been previously added to a whitelist. NoScript offers also specific countermeasures against security exploits. NoScript blocks JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight, and other "active" content by default in Firefox. This is based on the assumption that malicious web sites can use these technologies in harmful ways. Users can allow active content to execute on trusted web sites, by giving explicit permission, on a temporary or a more permanent basis. If "Temporarily allow" is selected, then scripts are enabled for that site until the browser session is closed. Because many web browser attacks require scripting, configuring the browser to have scripting disabled by default reduces the chance...
