DNSsec as is a solution, right?

Since the latest DNS patch horror for those who _still_ use BIND over DJBDNS or OpenDNS, a lot of smart people who know a lot more about DNS then you & me together have been pointing to DNSsec as an even better cure.

DNSsec is a bitch to setup and use, even the guruus over at SANS are reluctantly and carefully touching the DNSsec waters. To actually benevit from the sec part of DNSsec, the end user would need to 'see' something like a nice big fat green thingy when connected to a DNSsec protected website, right?

Unfortunatly DNSsec is still not really widely deployed. There is no buildin firefox [or anyother browser for that matter] support.

Well for Firefox there is an extention for all your needs, to for DNSsec there is too. Called the DRILL extention. It would not install on my FF 3.0.1 since the DRILL exention ‘will not be installed because it does not provide secure updates’. Solution: go to the about page, create a new bolean called extensions.checkUpdateSecurity and set it to false. Try again & fail again: the extention does not support FF 3.x

So much for the nice effort.

Reasons I do not.

Firefox 3 is about to het the Internet tubes in a couple of hours. Great, or is it?

The fact that Google Browser Sync project is not taking calls nor displaying any word about support of their essential FF extention for FF 3 has made me decide to NOT upgrade.

As much as I liked test driving FF3 [all beta's and RC's] I just do not want to browse without GBS, unless I am given no option.

So here is my appologies to the FireFox 3 team: sorry! But I will retreat my pledge to download FF3 untill GBS is available and will continue to use FF2.

Here's the google teams reply:

Thanks for trying out Google Browser Sync and for all of your feedback. It was a tough call, but we decided to phase out support for Browser Sync. Since the team has moved on to other projects that are keeping them busy, we don't have time to update the extension to work with Firefox 3 or to continue to maintain it.

For those of you who want to continue to use Firefox 2, we'll maintain support for old versions of Google Browser Sync through 2008. After that, we can recommend a few other products that scratch a similar itch. We hope that one of them works for you:

Mozilla Weave [labs.mozilla.com] from Mozilla Labs—Offers bookmark and history synchronization across computers.

Google Toolbar for Firefox [toolbar.google.com]—Store your bookmarks online and access them from any computer online.

Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer [addons.mozilla.org]—Synchronizes your bookmarks across all computers where it is installed.

Regards,
The Google Team

But personally I do not want to change too much at a time so I will sit back, enjoy GBS for the comming couple of months, wait till FF3's bugs will be ironed out and then, maybe, switch away from GBS to one of the above mentioned 'replacements'.

FireFox FullScreen on OSX

I knew I should have pushed the publish button.

Start FireFox, create a new bookmark [I like it on the bookmarktoolbar], enter a goodname [FullScreen seems nice] and enter this line of code:

javascript:self.moveTo(0,0); self.resizeTo(screen.availWidth,screen.availHeight);

Et voilla: Sarah got her fullscreen browser!