{"id":396,"date":"2005-02-26T12:21:49","date_gmt":"2005-02-26T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=396"},"modified":"2009-04-12T19:42:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-12T23:42:38","slug":"firefox-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/02\/26\/firefox-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Firefox – Rediscover the web<\/a><\/p>\n

There’s an update to Firefox which everyone should get. You see, someone figured out how to use international characters in a domain name to make it look like you’re visiting a “real” site, when in fact you’re visiting a “fake” site. The problem is in all the different characters for all the different languages supported by things like unicode & whatnot. So, to stop this, the new version of Firefox displays certain domain names in a different way, if they use this “trick.” Now, for international users (i.e. anyone who’s language is not English) this may make it a little weird when viewing legitimate sites that use foreign characters; but all in all it’s safer this way for everyone.<\/p>\n

Remember folks, “phishing” scams are the biggest thing going on the ‘net these days. BE CAREFUL when going to a site you think you trust (paypal, ebay, etc.), and always be double-careful when entering in passwords or financial information. A little awareness on your part can go a long way in protecting you from scams!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s an update to Firefox which everyone should get. You see, someone figured out how to use international characters in a domain name to make it look like you’re visiting a “real” site, when in fact you’re visiting a “fake” site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-6o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1554,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/12\/17\/nows-the-time-to-switch-to-firefox\/","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":0},"title":"Now’s the time to switch to Firefox","author":"Keith Survell","date":"December 17, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"A serious security flaw has been found in Internet Explorer - no big surprise there. But this one really IS serious - it was found by attackers before it was found by Microsoft. So exploits are already out there \"in the wild.\" (This BBC News story has more details.) The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "tech"","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":964,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2007\/11\/04\/just-get-firefox-already-geez\/","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":1},"title":"Just get Firefox already, geez!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"November 4, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"My attempts to urge Internet Explorer users to upgrade to something better.","rel":"","context":"In "Rants"","block_context":{"text":"Rants","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/rants\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1197,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2008\/07\/09\/firefox-problems\/","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":2},"title":"Firefox Problems?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"July 9, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"UPDATE: I've already gotten a very thoughtful reply to this post - check it out in the comments below. Lately I've been having some trouble with Firefox 3 - basically, when you click a link in some 3rd party program (that is, not in Firefox itself) and it tries to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "tech"","block_context":{"text":"tech","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Firefox Profile Manager with 3 profiles","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2008\/07\/profile-manager.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":807,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/10\/17\/you-go-firefox\/","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":3},"title":"You go, Firefox!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 17, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Although the statistics for my website are wholly unscientific, it's still gratifying to see Firefox with such a huge percentage!","rel":"","context":"In "Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Internet","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/technology\/internet-technology\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2721,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2009\/06\/30\/firefox-3-5-available-today\/","url_meta":{"origin":396,"position":4},"title":"Firefox 3.5 Available Today!","author":"Keith Survell","date":"June 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Excitement! Adventure! Really wild things! Firefox 3.5 is officially released today! I\u2019m quite excited about this new release \u2013 this is, quite frankly, a really big release for Firefox that includes a lot of really cool, neat things, including (but not limited to): Support for the HTML5