Must Have Firefox Extensions

  What a life it is when you have  various tools at the tip of your     fingers helping you out in most of the mundane online tasks. Most of the woes of internet users have been solved by our most favourite browser,yes, nothing but Firefox. And as I have priorly mentioned in another post of mine about Firefox 3 Beta 4 download, the browser is a breeze to work on.

Add to the immense features offered by the browser itself, and add some more plugins in order to juice out the advanced features of the browser. I am now presenting you a list of some of the best Firefox Extensions which ask for your eyes and ears. But, they are free.  Have a look at them first and decide which would you like to work on. Life wouldn’t be the same with firefox.

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Video and Audio Codecs for Vista OS

Got Vista on your Desktop and Laptop but finding it hard to trace the drivers which would help you out in viewing and listening to multiple audio and video formats?

Here’s a perfect solution to your woes. Advanced Vista Codec Package 4.6.1 helps your present media player to play DVDs, movies and videoclips such as quicktime, real media, avi, mpeg, flv, swf, wmv and so on. Web browsers can play embedded streaming video without asking you everytime to download the plug-in. No adjustments are needed to configure the software, the default settings are more than enough for a common user.

No more bugging QuickTime System Tray icon anymore and Supports multiple languages.

You can download the Codec Package here.

Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability

How would it be if you get to know that a remote user can cause unwanted and hazardous code to be executed on the target user’s system. Alarmed?

There is every reason to answer this question with a YES. You are more susceptible to this vulnerability if you are using Microsoft Outlook. This vulnerability had been reported by Greg MacManus of iDefense Labs. Wanna know how this would be happening?

Procedure: A remote user can create a specially crafted mailto URL that, when loaded by the target user, will trigger an input validation flaw and execute unwanted code on the target system. The code when executed, will run with the privileges of the target user.

Solution: Microsoft has come out with specific fixes which are free to download:

Outlook 2000 Service Pack 3: Get it here

Outlook 2002 Service Pack 3: Get it here

Outlook 2003 Service Pack 2: Get it here

Outlook 2003 Service Pack 3: Get it here

Outlook 2007: Get it here

A restart is not required.

Have a look at the Microsoft Advisary.

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