Removing private data (Securing Firefox: How to avoid hacker attacks on Mozilla's browser)

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enable cookies for the original site only is unfortunately no longer available in the latest FF 2.0.0.4 toolbar, which I run on both Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04 (I haven't checked Gran Paradiso 3.0a6, which I'm using in a Vista partion). NoScript, which I run on all three partitions is a wonderful tool, which allows one to choose which sites are permitted to run script. The problem is that very few sites run a single script - when reading this particular article, for example, I am asked not only to determine whether I should allow script from zdnet.com (which I of course do - surely those lovely people at ZDNet would never do anything to harm me !), but also to do the same thing for i.com.com and pointroll.com, about which I know very little. Googling takes me to pointroll.com's website, which offers me ?rich media solutions?, but when I attempt to connect to i.com.com, I am informed that Firefox is unable to find the server. Some sites, like those for major newspapers, will be coupled to upwards of ten of these subsidiary sites, most of which presumably count the number of visitors, and all of which clamor for attention in NoScript. Under these circumstances, your average user is probably going to click to permit all of them simply to get rid of that annoying NoScript yellow warning bar at the bottom of the active window, thus greatly reducing the tool's usefulness as a security device. Websites badly need cleaning up, so that users aren't confronted with a plethora of URLs, all requesting access to their computers....

Henri

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