Firefox
Using OpenBSD as a daily driver, I got used to having programs being restricted in their permissions. Especially Web Browsers from ports that are patched to implement pledge(2) and unveil(8). Long story short, this guarantees that Firefox, Chromium & friends will get killed if they try to access system resources that they were not allowed to access; be it a device or a file system space.
FreeBSD 14.1, AFAIK, does not implement such feature. And getting a bit paranoid because of “Fish Linux” , I decided my FreeBSD Web browsers should be living in jail.Continue reading...
With the upcoming release of OpenBSD 4.9 and my previous testings with SOGo, I decided to give it a try as a workstation environment. I used OpenBSD for quite a while ; but this was decades before. If I’m right, this was about 2002. I was using stuff like WindowMaker, Sylpheed-Claws or Mutt (depending on the day mood), Mozilla or Lynx and XMMS. At this time, I was a SysAdmin so this was perfect are far from enough compared to Windows 2000. But nowadays, I’m a father storing loads photos and rendering personal week-end movies. I’m still a bit of a g33k ; after all, who would blog on using such OS…
But let’s see if Open Source software can do the trick.Continue reading...
In the previous “Create your semi-pro HTML newsletter” article, we’ve seen how to use an HTML template to create and send newsletters. We also seen that, sometimes, it doesn’t render nicely.
This article is going to give you directions that should correct this.Continue reading...
It’s been a few weeks that Safari bugs me… It’s damn slow when starting (with 5 tabs), when a tabs reloading I can’t use any of the other… I don’t know exactly what happens but even last update (v5.0.4) doesn’t solve anything. I thought it might be my installation but Firefox has no issue at all.
So it’s time to make Firefox my default OS X web browser.Continue reading...
A mon (nouveau) boulot, l’accès à Internet est soumis à l’authentification au niveau d’un proxy. Si cela ne pose pas de problème avec Internet Explorer (qui est configuré par l’équipe IT), c’est un peu plus problèmatique pour Firefox. En effet, déjà il est installé en mode “portable” car je ne suis pas admin de mon poste et je ne peux donc pas l’installer… Mais en plus, le mode “découverte automatique de proxy” n’est pas activé sur le réseau. J’ai donc dû ruser pour trouver la référence exacte du proxy à utiliser.Continue reading...