Incidentally, Mozilla is working on a new system programming language that address a lot of these issues, when it is done that is. Their plan is rewriting a lot of the webbrowser in this language.It seems like Firefox and Flash are asking to install updates on a weekly basis…
Then let me add another one to your list: RequestPolicyI'm just hoping that these are actually benefiting me in some concrete way. I do run high security with firewalls and blockers like noscript, ghostery, adblock, peerblock, … but still doesn't seem like its enough.
Then let me add another one to your list: RequestPolicy
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It replaced noscript on my pc a couple of years ago. Partly because I like the features, but also because the author of noscript cannot be trusted. He became involved in a "plugin war" with the adblock people. In the end he resorted to "manually fixing" people's adblock addon through his noscript addon.
I rejected it for the reason stated , but also because the noscript plugin didn't prevent the security breach here on RPGWatch. If I remember correctly the exploit was a username/password logger. Being RPGWatch I naturally allowed it on noscript, but since the database here got compromised, some naughty javascript code bypassed noscript's protection since RPGWatch.com should be trusted, which allowed the naughty code to report any gathered information to an external site. RequestPolicy would have blocked that external connection until you allowed it.But the requestpolicy site recommends using both Requestpolicy and Noscript, saying they don't replace each other (https://www.requestpolicy.com/faq#faq-noscript). ?