Archive for the ‘firefox’ Category

Expire private images to protect privacy on the Internet?


2011
01.11

A new product over at x-pire.net (which redirects to x-pire.de) was unveiled in Germany today, with the aim of embedding expiry times and information into images so that they cannot be viewed after a certain time. In that way there should be a maximum lifespan to digital images on the web to prevent future embarassment, usage etc. At this stage, the prototype is available as plug-in for Firefox (as well as some other browsers in future), and expounds the idea of a ‘forgetful internet’ so that information is not immortal on the web. (more…)

Firefox: Paste HTML code from one child frame to parent text-box – src stripped


2010
09.10

Here’s something fun: use Firefox 3.6.9 to have a set of Javascript code in a child frame append HTML code to a text box in the parent frame, and content of the string is modified:

what was

<img src="foo.jpg" alt="bar" width="1" height="1" />

becomes

<img alt="bar" width="1" height="1" />

which is pretty pointless… (more…)