Re: Keylogger warning

On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:04:53 +0100, Catriona R wrote:
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:31:40 -0500, pv+usenet@xxxxxxxxx (PV) wrote:
Catriona R <catrionarNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I mean enable the lot that are listed for the site I'm at - loads of
sites refuse to work if you block X related site that has a domain
nothing to do with them, but which they rely on to make the page work.
Horrible site design in my opinion, but go figure.

You can set up noscript to enable an entire top-level domain at a time,
which greatly reduces the noise. Try that.

In my experience, almost no site will fail if true third-party sites are
noscripted. The only exceptions are geographical distributors like akamai,
and common services like youtube that have to be turned on if you want to
see embedded videos.

It's all configurable. Play with it until you get what you like.

My experience doesn't match yours. many sites fail to work until you
mess around trying to guess just which third party domain needs to be
unblocked. Presumably you get hit by it less often when you've used it
for longer and learned what works.

I've been using NoScript for about two years now and I still get cases where
I have a list of some 7 or 8 domains that can be unblocked and no idea which
one to unblock to make a site work. Often I just give up and tell myself it
is not worth the risk to allow just any of them on the hope that it will
work. Every once in a while I *really* want to see that site (or maybe even
need to) so I'm willing to take the risk but then of course that sort of
negates the use of Noscript :)

On the whole, though, I have to say that it works fairly easily and does
reduce the risk of drive by infections.

Sure and I didn't care that it didn't have tabs. but since I'm now used
to them, I prefer the way IE does them to how Firefox does them. Is that
a crime?

Obviously not, but I can't imagine what IE is doing that firefox doesn't -
they directly ripped off the functionality from opera and firefox. *

It's just aesthetics, IE lets far far more tabs show at a time, Firefox
has them far too wide so if you have a lot open you end up scrolling
loads, by which time you may as well use separate windows for all the
use they are. Presumably not an issue to most people, it's just I'm used
to the IE way and I like it better.

And that's where addons come in :-) Try TabMixPlus where you can choose the
tabs to be smaller sized depending on the amount of tabs, where you can
choose to have multiple lines of tabs instead of one scrollable line and
many other features.


In the end, though, I think it comes down to the fact that you have used IE
for 9 years, are used to it, don't miss any crucial features and - as you
have not suffered from any security holes - are willing to keep taking the
risk.

On the other hand, PV, myself and others are not willing to take the risk;
miss crucial features; just purely dislike MS on principle; prefer open
source software; like the plethora of addons or any combination of the above
reasons, so we use Firefox.

I reckon this has been enough of an advocacy thread on browsers, why don't
we just let each of us browse with what we prefer.

Cheers
Urbin

ps. but don't come crying here if you catch something using IE ;-)

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