improve the privacy of our browser. The sound system takes shape For some 'time I decided to put all the applications I use most often on a USB key to be able to have my browser, messenger and whatever' other always with me. The most striking example
is to have both at work and at home on the same browser, the same configurations, extensions and bookmarks even if it could be extended to schools free internet point.
Sign in with your passwords from public places is still "dangerous" because many services do not use https
and thus can be intercepted by some attacker on the same network.
To reduce the problem I decided to use
Greasemonkey and a script that I created specifically for my needs. Greasmonkey is a plugin for firefox that allows you to execute javascript on the pages selected by the user, my goal is to check all the pages that are opened (exceptions made for https pages) and change all links to a list of http to https sites. In so doing qunado select a link to gmail page will load automatically and safely shut-off test (.. or at least complicates the lives of those who would like to intercept these pages).
/ / == == UserScript
/ / @ name Google
Utilities / / @ namespace http://riekr.blogspot.com/
/ / @ description Some nice utilities
google / / @ include http:/ / *
/ / @ exclude https: / /
* / / == / == UserScript
scrollIGoogleDown = true;
fixHTTPLinks = true;
if (scrollIGoogleDown) {
scrollIGoogleDown= false;
if(location.href.match("\.google\.com/ig")!=null)
scroll(0,25);
}
if(fixHTTPLinks) {
fixHTTPLinks= false;
var patterns= [
'http://mail.google.',
'http://www.google.com/calendar',
'http://groups.google.com/group/il-conclave-della-bassa'
];
for(var p = 0; p < patterns.length; p++) {
var pageLinks = document.evaluate("//a[@href[contains(.,'"+patterns[p]+"')]]", document, null, XPathResult.UNORDERED_NODE_SNAPSHOT_TYPE,null); Var
currentLink;
for (var i = 0; i \u0026lt;pageLinks.snapshotLength i + +) {
currentLink pageLinks.snapshotItem = (i);
currentLink.href currentLink.href.replace = (/ ^ http:/, ' https: ');
}}}
If you install greasemonkey can copy and paste the javascript Rise up here in a new script (I called it my "Google Utilities"). Maybe I'll post up userscripts.org even though I've noticed that unfortunately many scripts for greasmonkey are sketchy, incomplete or even create more problems than it would solve.
Links: Applications for USB Flash Drive , Greasemonkey, Greasemonkey user scripts (!) .
