Gemal's Psyched Blog - Comments on Google Safe Browsing anti-phishing extension to land on trunk http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/index.html Googles Safe Browsing anti-phishing extension released by Google on labs.google.com in December 2005, is going to be landed on the trunk Mozilla code for consideration as the base for an anti-phishing feature in Firefox. It'll be a global extension, off... en-us Copyright 2009 Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:48:53 +0100 Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:31:32 +0100 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.17 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://gemal.dk/ http://gemal.dk//pics/favicon.png Gemal's Psyched Blog By David Naylor Good find. Very interesting news indeed. This will (might) hopefully give Firefox the one feature that it has seemed IE7 would have while Ff 2 wouldn't. Good find. Very interesting news indeed. This will (might) hopefully give Firefox the one feature that it has seemed IE7 would have while Ff 2 wouldn't.

]]> http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment1?from=rss-comment http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment1 Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:14:05 +0100 David Naylor naylor83@gmail.com By Kurt This should land on trunk/branch as dogfood ASAP. This needs to be in FX 2 for same reason at Comment 1 said. This should land on trunk/branch as dogfood ASAP. This needs to be in FX 2 for same reason at Comment 1 said.

]]> http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment2?from=rss-comment http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment2 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 00:31:59 +0100 Kurt supernova_00@yahoo.com By Eric I've trawled through the docs but can't see any mention of a capability to disable this feature. This should be an extension and not part of the base installation. I've trawled through the docs but can't see any mention of a capability to disable this feature. This should be an extension and not part of the base installation.

]]> http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment3?from=rss-comment http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment3 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:16:12 +0100 Eric nothanks@spampal.com By Colin Is the backend service still hosted and controlled by Google? Seems like it would be better to get the backend service moved to Mozilla before making this a part of Firefox. Is the backend service still hosted and controlled by Google? Seems like it would be better to get the backend service moved to Mozilla before making this a part of Firefox.

]]> http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment4?from=rss-comment http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment4 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:47:19 +0100 Colin colin@binarynoise.net By mk That's beautiful of open source :) That's beautiful of open source :)

]]> http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment5?from=rss-comment http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment5 Mon, 06 Mar 2006 17:28:03 +0100 mk mk@mk.com By Matt Nordhoff Eric:"It'll be a global extension, off by default."It is an extension, just one that is installed by Firefox, like Talkback or DOM Inspector. You can disable it if you want to. Eric:

"It'll be a global extension, off by default."

It is an extension, just one that is installed by Firefox, like Talkback or DOM Inspector. You can disable it if you want to.

]]> http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment6?from=rss-comment http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment6 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 01:07:11 +0100 Matt Nordhoff 8335140ace5d45f240943d1941dee08096a930fd By Eric Matt,Thanks for the info.I know a lot of people that would rather see it off by default as they wouldn't like to have all their browsing habits checked by an unaccountable organization such as Google.Better still, make it an extension that people can download and install by choice, not by default. Matt,

Thanks for the info.

I know a lot of people that would rather see it off by default as they wouldn't like to have all their browsing habits checked by an unaccountable organization such as Google.

Better still, make it an extension that people can download and install by choice, not by default.

]]> http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment7?from=rss-comment http://gemal.dk/blog/2006/03/05/google_safe_browsing_antiphishing_extension_to_land_on_trun/#comment7 Tue, 07 Mar 2006 02:00:31 +0100 Eric nospam@spamcop.com