ChrisAcheson.net » firefox http://chrisacheson.net/blog Sat, 09 May 2009 18:52:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Firefox Portable + GnuPG + FireGPG = CryptoFox http://chrisacheson.net/blog/2009/05/05/firefox-portable-gnupg-firegpg-cryptofox/ http://chrisacheson.net/blog/2009/05/05/firefox-portable-gnupg-firegpg-cryptofox/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 21:59:12 +0000 Chris Acheson http://chrisacheson.net/blog/?p=65 I’ve been talking about this for a while, but I finally got around to doing it.  I’ve put together a software package consisting of Firefox Portable, GNU Privacy Guard, and FireGPG.  I’m calling it “CryptoFox”.  You can download it here.

The idea behind this is to lower the barrier to entry for using PGP encryption.  If you want to communicate privately with someone, instead of having to guide them through the install process for 3 different components, you can just have them download CryptoFox and run it.  No installation is required.

It’s also a little tricky to set FireGPG and GnuPG up to function portably.  If you want to run them from a USB stick on any computer, I’ve already done the hard part for you.

]]> http://chrisacheson.net/blog/2009/05/05/firefox-portable-gnupg-firegpg-cryptofox/feed/ 8 NoScript Firefox plugin secretly disables Adblock Plus http://chrisacheson.net/blog/2009/05/01/noscript-firefox-plugin-secretly-disables-adblock-plus/ http://chrisacheson.net/blog/2009/05/01/noscript-firefox-plugin-secretly-disables-adblock-plus/#comments Sat, 02 May 2009 01:22:39 +0000 Chris Acheson http://chrisacheson.net/blog/?p=57 Apparently Giorgio Maone, the developer of the NoScript extension for Firefox, has been indulging in some borderline-malware tactics in order to make sure the ads on his site don’t get blocked by the (excellent and popular) Adblock Plus extension.  This is a shame, because NoScript is a genuinely useful tool, but I no longer feel comfortable using it.

Details are available at this post on the ABP blog.

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