Ubuntu – How to browse the web safely with Mozilla Firefox

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i want to know how can i possibly keep me secured from forgery sites. i am currently using mozilla 3.7

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Firefox 3 or later contains built-in Phishing and Malware Protection to help keep you safe online. These features will warn you when a page you visit has been reported as a Web Forgery of a legitimate site (sometimes called “phishing” pages) or as an Attack Site designed to harm your computer (otherwise known as malware).

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NOTE:
You can also install the following Add-ons for Firefox, for secure browsing.With flash and scripting off, all that is left in browser is html and images and these are not too dangerous.

Flashblock NoScript Adblock Plus

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You should find out what the latest packages available are, by first running:

sudo apt-get update

and then install the latest firefox:

sudo apt-get install firefox

Or you could install the latest "everything" with:

sudo apt-get upgrade

Ubuntu should have an updater (don't remember exact name) that checks for and asks you about installing (or optionally automatically installs) newer packages/software. Is yours not running or set to keep quiet?

And there's also apt-get dist-upgrade that upgrades Ubuntu to a newer release, but it's traditionally less reliable than a fresh install.

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.mozilla/firefox directory contains the settings and extensions. Here's output of mine:

$ ls .mozilla/firefox/b1ygiwi1.default/ | head      
addons.json
addons.sqlite*
blocklist.xml
bookmarkbackups/
cert8.db*
cert_override.txt*
compatibility.ini*
content-prefs.sqlite*
cookies.sqlite*
cookies.sqlite-shm*

The other directory actually contains different types of cache, as wie5Ooma already mentioned.

So if something would be going wrong, you'd might want to try altering or deleting completely whatever is in ~/.mozilla/firefox/ to restore settings to default.

There is also cache in .macromedia/Flash_Player\#SharedObjects/ which belongs to flash player if you use that, like s.ytimg.com from youtube.

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