Still trying to figure out how to disable Norton’s Phishing Protection toolbar. It doesn’t show up as a Firefox add-on. It’s like a virus. It’s spyware. It’s malware. I removed it by renaming the .dll and creating a blank text file with the same name. But when Firefox crashed, it was back on the next [...]

Microsoft has released a Virtual PC hard drive image with Windows XP Professional SP2 (evaluation, expires December 7, 2007) and Internet Explorer 6. By default, it has proxy settings which make it not work with Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. Turn off the proxy settings to get online.
The purpose of this image is for web developers [...]

Here’s what’s coming in the next version of Firefox. There’s been a lot of buzz about it lately, and it’s looking pretty good.

Better download manager

You can now filter completed downloads with a search box
Anti-virus integration
Better resume support

One-click bookmarking via stars
Better security
Supposedly patched memory leaks
Better “Save Password” dialog

Displays password-saving buttons in a thin bar at the [...]

Mozilla has released Firefox 2.0.0.7, which fixes “an issue in QuickTime that could reportedly lead to a full compromise of the browser and possibly the underlying operating system. The official Mozilla security blog described the issue as follows:
“If Firefox is the default browser when a user plays a malicious media file handled by QuickTime, an [...]

Something funny happened today: while browsing with Firefox, phone numbers were getting cut off. Worse, they remained that way even when printed!

This prevented the printouts from being used as references, which defeats the purpose of printing it in the first place. The culprit?
Skype.
By default– in fact I don’t think it even gave me an option– [...]