Mozilla : New Feature:Security Tab in the Web Console

The Web Console, part of the Firefox Developer Tools, shows errors and warnings filtered into different categories.Web developers need better tools to help them debug security issues.Also Security is not a part of web developers education.

So,Mozilla took an initiative for providing the developers with a new tab called SECURITY in it's web console.

Right Click on any web page and click on  Inspect Element and one can go to console tab over there.
The security tab will look as shown below.It is marked with red to indicate the web developers that there is a Security Vulnerability to your site.

Different Buttons in Web Console

Some of the Goals fulfilled are:

1. Warn developers about altered site behavior that is due to a security feature (for example, resource loads blocked by the Mixed Content Blocker or the Same Origin Policy).
2. Warn developers about mistakes made in implementing security features (for example, using deprecated CSP headers, or mistyping an HSTS header).
3. Warn developers about common security risks (for example, putting password fields on insecure pages).

Below are example Screenshots of some of the security messages and they are currently available on Firefox Nightly Only and  they will be made available to next stable releases.

Warning for detected password field on an insecure page.

Warnings for loading mixed content

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Removing Internet Explorer from your computer

Internet Explorer is the default browser that everyone gets when someone installs Windows Operating Systems.But due to lot of reasons we may not be using the Internet Explorer after obtaining a good browser.

It is being used only in one way for installing the additional software like search toolbars that come packed with some software during their installation.

But many people don't know that they can Uninstall Internet Explorer.It is actually not uninstalling,instead we are going to hide internet explorer.

Hiding Internet Explorer:

Go to Start
Type turn windows features on or off and hit enter
you can see a window similar to following one

 

Unmark Internet Explorer 9 and then click ok.

The computer need to be restarted to see the changes.

During restart you may see the screen like this.

After you boot into your computer you can see that Internet Explorer is nowhere seen.

Similar way one can hide the games that comes default with the Operating System by unmarking Games.

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Useful Gmail Tools

Operate Gmail Using shortcuts:

 
Shortcuts are often the easiest way to use your computer or anything.They save you a lot of time.There is a way you can operate your Gmail account using shortcuts.
  Open your Gmail and type ? you can see a window showing shortcuts that you can use in Gmail as below.It says that the following shortcuts are currently disabled.Click Enable to enable them.It has easy ways to goto compose box,inbox and many others.

Users can also customize the existing shortcuts by going to SETTINGS and then Keyboard Shortcuts
Choose what shortcut you want to edit and click on Save Changes at the bottom of the page.

Know If your friend is Online through Desktop or through Android Mobile:

Go to Settings Page and go to LABS tab

Go to Green Robot Lab and Enable it and you can see in your chat box,a Green Android Robot symbol if anyone is online through mobile.

Enable Right Side Chat:

Improve your chat experience by bringing traditional left side chat box to the right side similar to Facebook and you need not scroll much to find out your favorite chat contact.


Go to Settings Page and go to LABS tab

 Go to Right-Side Chat and Enable it.

There are a lot of Tools that are available in Gmail Settings which you can explore further. :)

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Google's Project Loon : Ballon Powered Internet for Everyone

Many of us think of the Internet as a global community. But two-thirds of the world’s population does not yet have Internet access. Project Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to connect people in rural and remote areas, help fill coverage gaps, and bring people back online after disasters. 

WHAT IS LOON :

Project Loon balloons float in the stratosphere, twice as high as airplanes and the weather. They are carried around the Earth by winds and they can be steered by rising or descending to an altitude with winds moving in the desired direction. People connect to the balloon network using a special Internet antenna attached to their building. The signal bounces from balloon to balloon, then to the global Internet back on Earth.

Project Loon began in June 2013 with an experimental pilot in New Zealand. A small group of Project Loon pioneers tested the technology in Christchurch and Canterbury.

Each balloon can provide connectivity to a ground area about 40 km in diameter at speeds comparable to 3G. For balloon-to-balloon and balloon-to-ground communications, the balloons use antennas equipped with specialized radio frequency technology. Project Loon currently uses ISM bands (specifically 2.4 and 5.8 GHz bands) that are available for anyone to use. 


Follow Project Loon on Google+

Checkout the Stanford University's Balloon Project

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Adding Multiple profiles or users in Firefox

We had previously seen adding Guest account in Chrome browser now,we shall see a hidden feature in Firefox that lets users add a different profile and users sync their data.

There is no need to Install extension for getting profiles in your Firefox.

Setting up profile:

All Firefox Windows must be closed before performing this.

1. Go to Run(win + R)
2. type firefox.exe -p
3. You can see a window looking like the one below
   
   Click on create profile and and proceed with steps giving profile name and choose folder where to store the data associated with that profile and click on finish to create the profile.
   
   
   
   

   

   
   Every time you start Firefox,Choose which profile you want and click on start Firefox,otherwise last selected profile will be opened by default.
   
   Setting Up Firefox Sync :
   
   Click on Firefox menu at the top left corner and Click on Options and goto sync tab.Create a Firefox sync account and you can save your Bookmarks,History,Passwords,Addons to your Firefox account.You can choose what data to be synced.
   
   Next time you re-install Firefox,all your data will be synced.
   
   

   

   
   

Hiding DRIVES or LocalDisks in your computer without softwares

Due to some reasons we dont want our content to be seen by others and we want to hide the content.Every one of us will have a drive in our computer for our personal stuff.We can hide that drives from other people using our computer without any software.There is a default tool in Windows Operating System that lets you complete the task.The tool is DISKMANAGEMENT.

There will be no loss to data in this procedure.

Procedure to hide the drive:

Follow the simple steps below

1. Go to Start
2. Type Disk Management
3. Right click on any drive and click on  Change Drive Letter and Paths
4.  Click on Remove button,then a pop-up will rise click yes.

Now you can open MyComputer and see that your drive have been hidden.

Demo:

Hope you enjoy this tutorial ;)

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Blocking a website on your computer without software

We all want to block some websites on our computer that may be distracting us during our exams or that we are spending a lot of time on that or you dont want your friends to use that site on your computer.It's pretty simple and we can do that without softwares.We just need to edit the hosts file located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Procedure to Block website:

1. Open Command Prompt in administrator mode
   (Click on start,type cmd,right click and Run as Administrator)
    
2. Type the following instructions
   cd \
   cd Windows\System32\drivers\etc
   edit hosts
   
3. Go to last line of the file and add the following
   127.0.0.1  www.yourwebsitename.com
   127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
   (you can add multiple websites in different lines)
4. Go to File and click Save.
    
5. Go to File and click Exit.
    
6. Now,open the browser and try going to that website and u can see that the browser cannot connect to that website.

Demo:

Note: Editing hosts file should be done in administrator mode only.Otherwise file cannot be saved.It  says that the file is read-only.

If you want to block website using softwares,which support content filtering also,go to following link.
WEBSITE Blocking software

Hope you enjoy the tutorial :)

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