There's a browser safer than Firefox...
...it is Firefox, with NoScript!
The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Flock, Seamonkey and others mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank), and provides the most powerful Anti-XSS protection available in a browser.
NoScript's unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality...
You can enable JavaScript, Java and plugin execution for sites you trust with a simple left-click
on the NoScript status bar icon (look at the picture), or
using the contextual menu, for easier operation in popup statusbar-less windows.
Watch the "Using NoScript" video
kindly contributed by John Wilkerson.
Staying safe has never been so easy!
Experts will agree: Firefox is really safer with NoScript!
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V. 1.7.6 "Guardian of your Trust"
- Temporarily allow all this page command now puts in the temporary whitelist every site shown as allowable by NoScript's menu, unless already marked as untrusted.
- Anti-XSS filters optimized for very complex nested URIs, like those use by some GModules widgets.
- Better blacklisting granularity: for instance, you can mark ads.ak.facebook.com as untrusted first, then allow facebook.com, keeping the former ads site blacklisted.
- Resolved conflict with the NewTabURL extension.
- Better compatibility with the Moveplayer plugin.
Experts do agree...
03/18/2008, "Consider switching to the Firefox Web browser with the NoScript plug-in. NoScript selectively, and non-intrusively, blocks all scripts, plug-ins, and other code on Web pages that could be used to attack your system during visits" (Rich Mogull on TidBITS, Should Mac Users Run Antivirus Software?)
11/06/2007, Douglas Crockford, world-famous JavaScript advocate and developer of JSON (one of the building blocks of Web 2.0), recommends using NoScript.
03/16/2007, SANS Internet Storm Center, the authoritative source
of computer security related wisdom, runs a front-page
Ongoing interest in Javascript issues
diary entry by William Stearns just to say "Please, use NoScript" :)
Actually, NoScript has been recommended several times by SANS,
but it's nice to see it mentioned in a dedicated issue,
rather than as a work-around for specific exploits in the wild.
Many thanks, SANS!
05/31/2006, PC World's The 100 Best Products of the Year list features NoScript at #52!
Many thanks to PC World, of course, for grokking NoScript so much, and to IceDogg who kindly reported these news...
In the press...
- PC World deems Internet Explorer 7 Still Not Safe Enough because it doesn't act like "NoScript [...] an elegant solution to the problem of malicious scripting" (cite bite)
- New York Times says "[...] NoScript, a plug-in utility, can limit the ability of remote programs to run potentially damaging programs on your PC", (Jan 7, 2007, John Markoff, Tips for Protecting the Home Computer).
- PC World's Ten Steps Security features using NoScript as step #6. (cite bite)
- The Washington Post security blog compares MSIE "advanced" security features (like so called "Zones") to Firefox ones and recommends NoScript adoption as the safest and most usable approach. (cite bite)
