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Disclaimer I don’t think, „hiding“ a webserver behind a non-standard TCP-Port is a security feature („security by obscurity“) but on the other hand restricting access to non-standard Ports seems to not increase the personal security measure, it just wastes time of anybody who needs to access such a service – and – it’s absolutely allowed to run a web-server on any port which isn’t used by another service 😉 Solution (if you (think, you) know what you’re doing) As always Add as „String“ if it’s missing: Add the Service you want to acccessRead More →

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For some time the password-manager built into firefox presents for each website a long list with obviously not useful proposals: „Want to login into Amazon? Try the Azure-Password!“, Firefox whispers. A bug couldn’t be more annoying, but this is a feature. (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/) Hard to believe this could be useful for some corner case, but for daily usage i’d prefer to get only the right password for one web-site to get proposed. Fortunately you can turn it off: Thank you, i’v been thinking about switching to another browser. This is really a killer non-feature.Read More →

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Not a new Feature for Windows, to use an enterprise CA to create server certificates. And Firefox added the possibility to trust those certificates ages ago – but still you’ll get an TLS-error-message (in German „Kein Verbindungsversuch unternommen: Mögliches Sicherheitsproblem“). This is no Security-Problem, it’s just a problem of using stupid defaults causing people to waste their time and providing no little level of security, since a CA operated on my own is much more trustworthy than public CAs which firefox trusts blindly. Solution Open about:config and changeRead More →

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The Firefox-Developers know best what’s good for their users, so they hide a bunch of Settings in about:config so it’s hard to find them. Some of them I change in every Firefox installation: ask me if i want to download MP4-Files, disable the build-in Media-Player media.play-stand-alone = false use the DNS, not Google – if I enter a single word as URL keyword.enabled = false     stop asking me if I really want to leave a page dom.disable_beforeunload := true   stop autocompletion in the URL-Bar browser.urlbar.autocomplete.enabled = false browser.fixup.alternate.enabled = false browser.fixup.alternate.prefix = (empty) browser.fixup.alternate.suffix = (empty)   accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar 0 browser.fixup.alternate.suffix prod.localbrowser.fixup.domainwhitelist.wiki trueRead More →