Recently i found a useful Firefox Add-On called PassiveRecon. PassiveRecon allows Information Security professionals the ability to perform “packetless” discovery of target resources utilizing publicly available information. It will queries a multitude of public databases and lookups to reveal as many information as possible about a domain without interacting with it directly.

To install PassiveRecon Firefox Add-On, just click HERE to Firefox PassiveRecon Add-on page. After that, just click on Accept and Install button.

A pop up screen will pop up, you just click Install Now to install it.

Once finished install the Firefox Add-on, just restart your Firefox.

How to execute Passive Recon plugin?

To run it, just right-click menu option called Passive Recon which opens another menu with a lot of possibilities.You just click on the option that you want.

There are more than 20 options are available with the option to query all databases at once. The queries are divided into groups, for example whois and domain lookups, Google queries and mx record lookups.

Recently i downloaded a eBook in EPUB format. I failed to open it using Adobe Reader (PDF reader) and Chmox (.chm reader). How to open it?? What is EPUB?? After i google it, i know that ePub format is an open standard for ebooks by the International Digital Publishing Forum. All the ePub files have the extension .epub.

There are several software programs support the ePub format. Below are the few software allow you to read .ePub file on your computer. You can just click the following link to download it.

• Adobe Digital Editions (Support Windows and OS X)
• EPUBReader (Firefox Add-on)
• Lucidor (Supports Windows, OS X, and Linux)
• Openberg (plug-in for Firefox,)
• FBReader (Windows, Linux, OS X)

Among all the software that i mention above, i tried to read .epub ebook using Adobe Digital Edition on my Mac OS X machines. It work fine for me.

Below are the few step to show how to install Adobe Digital Edition :-

• Download Adobe Digital Edition

• Just follow the on screen instruction to download the installer files.
• After that, just follow the on screen instruction to install the application. Below are the screen shoot: -

• Try to open .epub format e-book

Besides Adobe Digital Editions, i tried to install Firefox add-on called EPUBReader to read ePub-files in the browser. With this Firefox add-on, you can read ePub files on multiple Operating System (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD) without install additional software.

To install this Firefox Add-on, it is very easy to do it. Below are the few simple steps to show how to install it:-

• Click HERE to download the EPUBReader add-on

• Click Add to Firefox button to begin the installation

• After download, click Install Now

• Restart the Firefox application

How to use EPUBReader? Just view the following video:-

If you others way to read .epub files, please share with me by leave a comment.

I just  setup Customer Portal Machine for my company Security Guard used. In order to make them easy to work,  I want to make the Customer Portal system which running on Firefox auto start in Full Screen mode (F11) when they login to Windows.

To auto start Firefox in full screen mode, just install the fullscreen plug-ins available in Firefox website. Fullscreen plug-ins is easy to install, just simply click HERE to download and install the plugin.

After installed the plugin, you need to activate the Full screen mode. To enable to full screen mode, just follow the steps below:-

• Go to fullscreen plugin option (Tools->Add-ons->Extensions->Full Fullscreen->Options)

• On the Startup Setting, just click the checkbox “Fullscreen on startup” to activate the full screen mode

• To test it, just simply close your Firefox and on your Firefox again
• Now you will realize your Firefox will automatically start in Full Screen Mode

Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6, the newest version of its popular browser. I downloaded and tried it. Below are the few improvement on Firefox 3.6

• One-click themes. Using the Personals Gallery, you can assign a new look and theme to Firefox with a click. Below is the screen shoot

• Mozilla has also boosted the browser’s overall performance and reduced its startup time, load times and stability. Besides, Javascript execution is faster and smoother as well. According to Mozilla,  JavaScript in 3.6 executes approximately 12% faster in Firefox 3.6 than in 3.5. while some pages load up to 20% faster which is an increase in speed — 20% faster than Firefox 3.5.
• Out-of-date plugin warnings. This feature lets you know when you’ve got an out-of-date and potentially virus-friendly plugin installed and provides an update link.

Click HERE to download latest version of Firefox.

From the previous post,  I’ve made few changes in Firefox’s about:config.

Unfortunately, i  misspell an entry name and select the wrong type. I tried to rename it and change the type, but i fail to do that. Besides, i tried to remove the entire entry, but it does not allow me to do that. Is there any way to delete an about:config entry in Firefox?

Here i going to show to show your how to delete the entry:-

1. Just go to your Firefox profile folder. The default location of the Firefox profile is %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\.
2. Open the  prefs.js in with text editor or notepad
3. Just remove erroneous key
4. Save the prefs.js and relaunch your Firefox

Hope this post will help u.

Mozilla Firefox is widely being used today. Previously I was using Firefox 2. I am very happy with it’s performance

Once i updated my Firefox to latest version. I feel that my Firefox performace was slow down compare with previous version. So, i start do a lot of reserch on how to speed up the performance of my latest firefox. Below are the few tips that i would like to share with your on how to optimize your Firefox performance.

How to optimize firefox performance:-

Launch your Firefox. On the address bar, you just enter about:config and press Enter

 Make the following modifications to the file by typing in the values on the respective fields to get the desired result (feel free to experiment)

You just simply copy paste the following field into the filter bar to find it

Network.http.pipelining
Network.http.pipeling.maxrequests               
Network.http.proxy.pipelining

After find the field, just double click to change the following value:-
Network.http.pipelining set to true
Network.http.pipeling.maxrequests set to 30
Network.http.proxy.pipelining set to true

 Last, right-Click at the content (anywhere) then click ‘Create New’ and then select ‘Integer‘.

Name it as  ‘nglayout.initialpaint.delay‘ .  Set the value to ‘0‘ (Zero) and press enter

After that, just restart Firefox and experience it what are the difference

I was helped my friend troubleshoot her laptop. Her Accer laptop running on Win Vista. She complain her laptop fail to connect to internet.
I have check throw the connection, broadband connection functioning well. I try to ping www.google.com received replies from them. But both Internet Explorer and Firefox could not be browsed.

How to solve this problem?

Don’t panic. Just check the proxy configuration of both web browsers.

Internet Explorer

• Click on Tools and select Options
• Click on Connections Tab and click on LAN Setting
• Unchecked all the check box (Proxy & Detect Automatic Setting need to unchecked)
• After that, click OK and restart your IE.
• Now your IE will be working fine.

Firefox always release new version. We can easily upgrade it via terminal command.

How to do that? Follow the steps below:

For Ubuntu / Debian Linux

 sudo apt-get update

 sudo apt-get install firefox

For Fedora / Redhat / Centos Linux

 yum update 

 yum install firefox 

Done.

As a administrator, management always request you to set the official web site as a home page for all the web browser.

If you want to prevent your user changing the homepage setting, you need to lock certain setting or option. In Internet Explorer, we can easily restrict the homepage setting from Group Policy. How about Mozilla Firefox? We unable to do it from Group Policy.

Here i going to show your how to lock Mozilla Firefox homepage.

Here are the steps:

1. Launch you notepad or others text editor

2. Enter the following code to the text file

//
lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://www.techkaki.com");

3. Save this text file as Mozilla.txt

4. Download Byte Shifter to encoded Mozilla.txt to Mozilla.cfg

5. After download, launch Byte Shifter program to do the encoding.

Eg:

Input file :  C:\Documents and Settings\Steve Lam\Desktop\mozilla.cfg (Location of you Mozilla.txt)

Output file :  C:\Documents and Settings\Steve Lam\Desktop\mozilla.cfg (Location that decode)

shift by : 13 Bytes

6. Click Go to encode it. The resulting file should be named mozilla.cfg.Save it to the same directory as firefox.exe (C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox)

7. Looking for all.js from C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\greprefs\. Open all.js with text editor and add the following line at the end of the file

pref("general.config.filename", "mozilla.cfg");

8. Save the file and restart your Firefox. Now you will realize that your homepage has been change and you unable to change it from the Firefox option.

Today i just found a plug in for Firefox call Cooliris.

What is Cooliris??

Cooliris is simply the fastest and most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop. Effortlessly scroll a “3D Wall” of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more.

Click here to install Cooliris 1.10 plugin to your Firefox on you Mac OS X.

After you install the Plugin, you will see the launch Cooliris shortcut on your top right corner on your Firefox.

How to use it? It is very simple by just click the launch Cooliris shortcut. After you click, you will see the screen which as show as below:

You can search any Video from Youtube or photo and view it from the Cooliris. Example that i did is i search Video from Youtube and view it with Cooliris.