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Firefox Browser

• Firefox Browser and Extensions
• Thunderbird Email (maybe)
• Danbury Area Computer Society
• October 3, 2006
• Jim Scheef, Immediate Past President

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Firefox Browser
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Firefox Browser

• Is it really more secure?
• No, not really
• Yes, way more secure

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Firefox Browser

• No, not really more secure
• It has scripting for good and bad things
• It has vulnerabilities like zero-day
  http//news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6121608.html
• No active anti-phishing
• No software is perfect
• Its run by a human

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Firefox Browser

• Yes, way more secure
• The smaller foot-print argument
• Patches come faster (maybe) as update releases
  (forces you to update everything rather than
  individual patches)

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Firefox Browser

• Yes, way more secure
• The smaller foot-print argument
• Patches come faster (maybe) as update releases
  (forces you to update everything rather than
  individual patches)
• Does not run Active-X

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Firefox Browser

• Yes, way more secure
• The smaller foot-print argument
• Patches come faster (maybe) as update releases
  (forces you to update everything rather than
  individual patches)
• Does not run Active-X
• Displays target URL of any link
• Firefox users are smarter ltchucklegt

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Firefox Browser

• Features I like
• Automatic updates
• Extensions, thousands of extensions!
• Helpful little details

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Firefox Browser

• Extensions, Add-ons and Themes
• Customization is what makes Firefox great
• Extensions are small programs written to run in a
  Firefox interface (API)
• There are thousands of extensions
  https//addons.mozilla.org/firefox/extensions/
• Installing the wrong extension can blow your
  security read before you click
• Add-ons are programs like Acrobat, etc.
• Themes (skins) change the overall appearance

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Firefox Browser

• My Top Five Extensions
• Plain Old Favourites use IE favorites in
  Firefox
• Roboform Toolbar works just like the bar in IE
• Yahoo Toolbar Yahoo just a click away
• Duplicate Tab so handy you wont believe it
• Adblock does just what it says

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Firefox Browser

• More Extensions
• For developers ColorZilla, Copy Plain Text, DOM
  Inspector
• For usability IE View, Firefox View, PDF
  Download, Tabbrowser Preferences, Sort Extensions
  and Themes
• For fun or just plain weirdness Leet Key
• For the paranoid DNS Toolbar

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Firefox Browser

• How to make Firefox your default browser
• Check boxes in Firefox preferences and Internet
  Options
• Change behavior of the .htm and .html file
  extensions (also changes the icon)
• Change the Start Menu (cosmetic only)

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Firefox Browser
Change for Thunderbird
Uncheck for Firefox
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Firefox Browser
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Firefox Browser

• Firefox 2.0
• Yes, its coming
• Currently in RC1

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Thunderbird Email Client
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Thunderbird Email Client
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Thunderbird Email Client
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Thunderbird Email Client
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Thunderbird Email Client

• What is it?
• Standards-based (RFC compliant) email client
• http//www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/

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Thunderbird Email Client

• Is it really more secure?
• No, not really
• Yes, way more secure

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Thunderbird Email Client

• Is it really more secure?
• The same arguments apply I really dont know
• Less market experience due to less publicity due
  to smaller user base due to less market
  experience due to less publicity due

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Thunderbird Email Client

• What standards?
• POP3 post office protocol
• Most common
• Messages stored on receiving computer
• IMAP4 internet message access protocol
• Messages remain on server
• Optionally copied to local computer
• Really useful when you use many computers
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Acce
  ss_Protocol
• Supported by Exchange

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Thunderbird Email Client

• What standards?
• SMTP simple mail transport protocol
• Used for sending to an MTA (message transfer
  agent) server
• MTA finds the destination domains email server
  and delivers the message also using SMTP

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Thunderbird Email Client

• Why I think its cool
• Support for IMAP
• Free
• Many extensions
• Seems to work well with AIM Mail (also free)
  http//about.aol.com/faq/openmailaccessothermail

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Were done

• Questions and Discussion