{"id":478,"date":"2012-01-31T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T13:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=478"},"modified":"2012-01-31T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T13:49:52","slug":"tip-tune-your-firefox-security-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Tip, Tune your Firefox security settings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to your antivirus and firewall protection, one should consider Browser security.<\/p>\n<p>In <a title=\"Mozilla Firefox, Tool for accessing Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=175\">firefox<\/a> , there are several settings related to security. At minimum, one should check security and privacy configurations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Security Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Menu -&gt; Tools -&gt; Options, select &#8220;Security&#8221; panel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recommendation: tick the first 3 settings<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"476\" alt=\"firefox-security\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/firefox-security.png\" width=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Privacy Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open Menu -&gt; Tools -&gt; Options, select &#8220;Privacy&#8221; panel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Recommendation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tick &#8220;Always use privacy browsing mode&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>tick &#8220;Accept cookies from sites&#8221;, but untick &#8220;Accept third-party cookies&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"525\" alt=\"firefox-privacy\" src=\"http:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/firefox-privacy.png\" width=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alternative, one can use private browsing mode only occasionally via main menu.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Menu -&gt; Tools -&gt; Start Private Browsing<\/li>\n<li>Menu -&gt; Tools -&gt; Stop Private Browsing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review firefox settings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Review Add-ons list via main menu to see that only those add-ons which are needed are active.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Menu -&gt; Tools -&gt; Add-ons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See what is installed in &#8220;Extensions&#8221; and &#8220;Plugins&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Security Add-ons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are add-ons available for security and privacy. It is worth to look &#8220;BetterPrivacy&#8221; which protects agains long term cookies, and NoScript which prevents scripts from sites. NoScript need to be &#8220;trained&#8221;, since all scripts from all sites are disabled until explicitly configured otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to your antivirus and firewall protection, one should consider Browser security. In firefox , there are several settings related to security. At minimum, one should check security and privacy configurations. Security Settings Open Menu -&gt; Tools -&gt; Options, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/?p=478\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saisa.eu\/blogs\/Guidance\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}