{"id":55,"date":"2007-06-29T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/2007\/06\/29\/firefox-tips-part-ii\/"},"modified":"2007-06-29T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T03:05:00","slug":"firefox-tips-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/?p=55","title":{"rendered":"firefox tips part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of <a href=\"https:\/\/freezion.com\/2007\/02\/21\/firefox-tips-part-i\/\">this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>it turns out that there are some very interesting things hidden in the dom.* section of about:config.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, there is this handy key which defaults to false, but if set to true is actually a rather beneficial security enhancement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>dom.disable_window_status_change<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Setting this to true will prevent javascript from manipulating the status bar. This &#8220;feature&#8221; is often used in phishing attacks to disguise the real location a given link is referencing. If you set this to true, you will be able to see where you&#8217;re really going to end up, rather than where the script is programmed to make you <strong>think<\/strong> you&#8217;ll be headed.<\/p>\n<p>For some more reading on the topic, designed around building a custom security policy for firefox suitable for pushing out to end users, check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/kb.mozillazine.org\/Security_Policies\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2 of this post. it turns out that there are some very interesting things hidden in the dom.*&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[8,22,43],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hacking","category-tech","tag-browser","tag-howto","tag-pentest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freezion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}