Anyone using this browser?

LoPo · 08-30-2006, 05:08 PM

http://www.browzar.com/

ChemicalWarrior · 08-30-2006, 05:39 PM

Never heard of it.

Its selling points must be huge bonus for those who look at tons of porn. What's the point of no cookies and no auto complete? Those are things I need and want.

What are you searching that's going to make you embarassed?

Its missing tabs, terrible.

LoPo · 08-30-2006, 05:54 PM

You completely missed this:

"The freedom to use it wherever you are
Browzar only takes seconds to download. Use it at home, at your friend’s, at work, in an Internet café, in fact anywhere you’ve got a computer and an internet connection."

Which was my thought when I first sat down... it's small you could easily carry it on a USB stick, your phone, or some other media that would allow it to be copied to any machine you use and protect yourself to a degree.

I personally am paranoid and I don't log into anything account wise, email, bank, forums, etc from machines I don't personally maintain. This is a step forward in relieving some of that paranoia for me.

{OF}Malicious Assault · 08-30-2006, 06:11 PM

Firefox has a portable version that you can put on a pen drive and use in any computer? http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

ChemicalWarrior · 08-30-2006, 06:26 PM

Firefox has had a portable version for awhile now, there are a number of applications that work straight from a USB drive, even full word processors like Open Office can be used.

Plus Firefox allows you to disable cookies and search box completion. I'm sure if you wanted to use it for this purpose that you could dig further into the config files and disable all such caching.

If you're paranoid then what are you doing to prevent key loggers and stuff like that from capturing your data?

LoPo · 08-30-2006, 06:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChemicalWarrior

Firefox has had a portable version for awhile now, there are a number of applications that work straight from a USB drive, even full word processors like Open Office can be used.

Plus Firefox allows you to disable cookies and search box completion. I'm sure if you wanted to use it for this purpose that you could dig further into the config files and disable all such caching.

Requiring configuring each time.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChemicalWarrior

If you're paranoid then what are you doing to prevent key loggers and stuff like that from capturing your data?

That's why I said a step forward.

Harbinger · 08-30-2006, 07:35 PM

No OS X version yet

Not really a problem though Safari has had private browsing since version 2.0.

http://www.lifehacker.com/software/m...ode-102146.php

Smiley · 08-31-2006, 06:41 AM

Warning - off subject post:
You should be carefull not to log into any banking or financial account that could be used to hurt you when on any public system, including at work. I have a spyware program (Spector360) that is used to capture everything an employee does on their system here at work. It is placed on systems where it is suspected that the employee is running a second job from their desk, or some other unethical practice, etc. Many times I've seen employees entering their online banking, health insurance, investment, and other personal accounts that show usernames & passwords & account numbers. As mentioned above, keyloggers can capture everything you type.

Right now we are watching an employee that is using his yahoo email to get around our porn filters. He belongs to some yahoogroups that share porn as email attachments so he thinks that it will not be caught because it will not show in the logs as a porn website. Spector360 takes screenshots too, so everything is caught . . .

This can also be the case with public computers, they might have more than a keylogger on the system and thus can capture everything done on that system.

Also, be aware that deleted files can be resurrected on hard drives, internal cell phone flash memory, memory sticks/cards, etc unless a "wipe" program has scrambled the media. Nearly all deletes of files only changes the first character of the filename so the OS knows it can reuse the storage space that file was using. But if that storage space has not been reused yet then software can bring back the file. This included cookies and other temp files.

Soul · 08-31-2006, 08:52 AM

I have been using mobile FF for months now off my usb drive, using trillian off of it too. Being able to carry it with me is a great advantage.

LoPo · 08-31-2006, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smiley

Warning - off subject post:
You should be carefull not to log into any banking or financial account that could be used to hurt you when on any public system, including at work. I have a spyware program (Spector360) that is used to capture everything an employee does on their system here at work. It is placed on systems where it is suspected that the employee is running a second job from their desk, or some other unethical practice, etc. Many times I've seen employees entering their online banking, health insurance, investment, and other personal accounts that show usernames & passwords & account numbers. As mentioned above, keyloggers can capture everything you type.

Right now we are watching an employee that is using his yahoo email to get around our porn filters. He belongs to some yahoogroups that share porn as email attachments so he thinks that it will not be caught because it will not show in the logs as a porn website. Spector360 takes screenshots too, so everything is caught . . .

This can also be the case with public computers, they might have more than a keylogger on the system and thus can capture everything done on that system.

Also, be aware that deleted files can be resurrected on hard drives, internal cell phone flash memory, memory sticks/cards, etc unless a "wipe" program has scrambled the media. Nearly all deletes of files only changes the first character of the filename so the OS knows it can reuse the storage space that file was using. But if that storage space has not been reused yet then software can bring back the file. This included cookies and other temp files.

THis is computer/personal security best practice 101 and exactly why I don't do crap on any other machine outside my control.

I'm actually considering getting some form of 2 factor authentication for my home systems/laptops. Either smart card, RSA, or Biometic.

Ya I'm paranoid...everything I do is electronic. I have personal documents archived, etc

I bet I'm the only here that tunnels RDP over SSH.