Adaware & Firefox

Just a simple observation here. I switched browsers a couple weeks back at work because of the serious exploits in IE (Internet Explorer) to Mozilla Firefox http://www.mozilla.org, also at home. In IE even knowing how the cookie blocked worked AdAware always found cookies that were simply strays IE did not catch, not to mention weekly scans that also found registry settings changed etc that IE never caught. So after the switch a couple weeks ago after seeing one of the IE patches enabled the auto update (not good for my network at work) to enable and install. I switched to Firefox.

Since M$ won the browser wars I had not looked around much what Netscape? I gave up when AOL bought them cause I knew it would be an AOL thing. Nothing against AOL..just was out here before they were and they caused many problems they now want to fix..consider it market share driven another story.

Firefox rocks if I ever loved a browser it is this one. After a few weeks on what not only what cookies I wanted but lots of other things like mouse gestures, and tab browsing and it supports all the usual plugins. I ran the AdAware after downloading the latest update and ran a scan. Know what it found 10 cookies all of them to sites I allowed no humm how did that registry entry get there. It has been a long time since I felt in control of such a simple thing as browsing the web and not encountering a scan of my system after I did to find any hidden little ad peoples stuff.

So I'd say even with patches at this point IE is long gone never use it again.

Peace

It's funny you posted this because I was just explaning this exact situation to someone just this morning. Congrats on finding Firefox, it's a heck of a browser - I unfortunately still have to use IE for certain things at work, but for the most part Firefox is what I'm using.

I have Firefox on my Rescue CD that I carry with me and also on my USB flash memory that
I carry with me when i go to fix computers. I always try to get the client to switch over to
Firefox, but 90% of the time they are drowning in IE love.

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Originally posted here by Icefyre24
I always try to get the client to switch over to
Firefox, but 90% of the time they are drowning in IE love.

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Its like when I go to fix peoples computers who need a full rebuild. I always have a large collection of various versions of Linux, and try to get them to at least try a dual-boot, but they are always so scared of it. Poor saps... If only they knew what they were missing out on... I mean, as much as I miss those blue-screens... ;)

I'm sure glad I read this thread. First time I've tried Firefox, and I think I'm gonna keep it. My favourite thing is how you can set the cookies to "current session only" I already told windoze that its the default browser! Mind you, in Linux, I tend to use Konqeror all the time, it seems very similar to this one. Is konqueror perhaps a version derived from Mozilla as well? Hmmm, I forget.

Anyways, enough of my boring all you ppl with my chatter,


Dave

Palemoon: I use Firefox and adaware as well and everytime I run a scan I get a select few cookies (no matter) and about two registry entries. So I checked them out (source file) I saw they were merely for my Window's Media Player. So what you might want to do is find the source folder/file of everything and see what the entry is for. It might be for an application you allow or use and isn't too big a deal. I could be wrong, but this typically happen's quite a bit.

Yeah, I seriously must concur here. I tried Firefox out a few versions ago and it sucked big donkey dongs, turns out patience does payoff sometimes. I updated to the latest release 0.9.2, I believe, and this thing seriously rocks. No errant cookies, third party bulls**t, adware, etc. etc. I even dig the customizable options, skins, plugins.... Plus the spoofstick is great for newbies. It lets them know that haven't been redirected to a site they didn't intend on going to in the first place.


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Ya know, Firefox was and still is better than IE, even when it did suck. However, While running on windows, firefox was vulnerable to pretty much the same vuln that IE was(that's what prompted the 9.2 quick release). So, Firefox does kick ass, and I can't wait for version 1.0, but be wary while running it on windows. The one thing I love is the lack of activeX crapola.
One bonus as korp pointed out are the free extensions that people have contributed. Some of them are extremely useful, and by god there is one thing that Microsoft still hasn't caught on to yet...TABBED BROWSING!

Everyone's doing it so I might as well...:

I installed firefox a couple weeks back and used it in parallel to IE, the I noticed it displayed just as well as IE and is just overall as good and/or better in pretty much everyway and switched to it full time at home.

I think the only things lacking for full fledge adoption by enterprises might be the missing auto-update (until 1.0, although you could probably script it some way) and the possibility of configuring it with group policies (although I haven't really searched if it is acutally possible).

Ammo

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and by god there is one thing that Microsoft still hasn't caught on to yet...TABBED BROWSING!

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Yeah, thank the lord for that. Simply press ctrl + t and wahla! None of that multiple window's **** with IE. Now all we need is Firefox to be installed by default on window's and life would be better :D

dang he beat me to it....i looooovveeee the tab browsing. have 6 webpages open and only 1 browser, half your taskbar is still open without 6 different browsers grouped up. BRILLIANT :) heh.

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Originally posted here by Spyder32
Now all we need is Firefox to be installed by default on window's and life would be better :D

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And on top of that, IE would NOT be installed at all. :P

I must agree, I haven't seen any more spyware for a while. (Though its only been two days, but then again, I'm used to getting infected using IE withing 5 minutes of browsing, lol)

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Posted by:KorpDeath Plus the spoofstick is great for newbies. It lets them know that haven't been redirected to a site they didn't intend on going to in the first place.

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I was wondering, KorpDeath, where this was? I took a look through the options, but was unable to find it. (Is it built-in somewhere?) Perhaps I'm just being blind and stupid as I just woke up...? At least Firefox isn't groggy first thing in the morning! :P


Dave

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Originally posted here by dstevens1958
And on top of that, IE would NOT be installed at all. :P

I must agree, I haven't seen any more spyware for a while. (Though its only been two days, but then again, I'm used to getting infected using IE withing 5 minutes of browsing, lol)



I was wondering, KorpDeath, where this was? I took a look through the options, but was unable to find it. (Is it built-in somewhere?) Perhaps I'm just being blind and stupid as I just woke up...? At least Firefox isn't groggy first thing in the morning! :P


Dave

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It's a plugin you can download. Go to "tools" "extensions" Down at the bottom, "get more extensions" and take a look at all the extensions you can add. Enjoy.

*edit* Just go here.

adware...psh....just do wget www.antionline.com then vi the antionline.hmtl file, no popupls or nothing.,

I know firefox is great and all but if you have a lot (like, say, 5) tabs open at a time, it realy starts gettin [flip]slow[/flip]

I just wanted to put in my 2 cents on FIREFOX, i installed it a few weeks ago! And after 2 days of using it IE went out the WINDOW! Great plugins and it also has my favorite shortcut ctrl+enter! Im pushing for the browser to be in our next Build for our section! So slowly but surely FIREFOX is winning over my IT department

i like using spoofstick and the yahoo campanion bar on firefox
Theres a nice plugin for firefox to search the spybot website
You can get it at http://www.safer-networking.org/en/news/2004-02-05.html
(im a big fan of spybot sd)