FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. And best of all: it’s free! Beta 11 is the first 3.0 release that has a Site Manager import function, so it’s possible to import all your accounts from a FileZilla 2.x installation. Continue reading →

Opera is a free, light and above all good browser. Mozilla Firefox is slow compared to Opera, and the Opera pop-up blocker just works, where in Firefox that isn’t always the case. If you have a website, and if you use the web seriously, you should have Opera installed on your computer. The one thing is doesn’t have: extensions … Continue reading →

After I had just installed Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5, a pop-up window informed me that the Java SE 1.6 console was not compatible with that version of Firefox. Don’t panic though, pretty much everything Java will still work in your browser. Here’s Sun explanation on the subject:

The Java Console menu item disappears in Firefox after it is updated to 2.0.0.1. This is caused by the fact that the maxVersion parameter of the Java Console “extension” is set to 2.0, and not 2.0.0.* or 2.0.* (either will suffice). This issue may be present in multiple platforms.

This should be fixed in Java SE 1.6 Update 2. I’ve been unable to verify this since I’m still at work.

The best browser in the browsing game. This release fixes some bugs and a security hole.

* MFSA 2007-25 XPCNativeWrapper pollution
* MFSA 2007-24 Unauthorized access to wyciwyg:// documents
* MFSA 2007-23 Remote code execution by launching Firefox from Internet Explorer
* MFSA 2007-22 File type confusion due to %00 in name
* MFSA 2007-21 Privilege escallation using an event handler attached to an element not in the document
* MFSA 2007-20 Frame spoofing while window is loading
* MFSA 2007-19 XSS using addEventListener and setTimeout
* MFSA 2007-18 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption

>> Download Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.5

More than three years after it’s release, a security hole has been found in the Visual IRC 2.0 (ViRC) chat client. Jesse McGrew (Mr2001) was quick to fix the issue, and a maintenance update is now available. You should just copy the files to the ViRC installation directory and overwrite the existing ones.

>> Download Visual IRC 2.0pl2 maintenance update
>> Download Visual IRC 2.0

Sometimes you just need to know what kind of processor or memory you have installed. This is where a tool like CPU-Z comes in handy.  It uncovers a lot of details about the inner secrects of your computer hardware. For free.

>> CPU-Z website
>> Downlad CPU-Z 1.40.5