netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege issue

Due to the necessity of using XMLHttpRequest I'm having problem on 
loading data from a webservice in the same server but in a different 
port. I came accross the command in the subject, founding on the web 
some resource about it, like:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-script-example.html

But also doing very simple tests it seems I can't set any privilege, 
funny thing is that the example in the page works but it wasn't possible 
to verify the source.

Here my example: http://nuthinking.com/permissions.htm

Thanks a lot for any information.

Best, chr
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cannot load libpipnss.so on Digital UNIX 4.0F

Dear all,

I have built mozilla 1.7.12 on Digital UNIX 4.0F. Running mozilla from
the local build directory fails to load libpipnss.so.

However, when I use "make DESTDIR=/tmp install", package the tree,
install it as root, run regxpcom and regchrome as root, but then run
mozilla as normal user, loading libpipnss.so *does* work.

Can anyone shed some light on this behaviour? Is this a file/direcory
permission problem of some kind or do I need to run some additional
utility in the build directory?

Thankx in advance for your help
Urs

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-bash-2.05b$ pwd
/home/urs/ports/mozilla/builds/osf1_V40_debug/dist/bin
-bash-2.05b$

registering libpipnss.so as user urs fails....

-bash-2.05b$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:`pwd`/.. ./regxpcom
Type Manifest File:
/var/tmp/home/urs/ports/mozilla/builds/osf1_V40_debug/dist/bin/components/xpti.dat
+++ JavaScript debugging hooks installed.
nsNativeComponentLoader: autoregistering begins.
nsNativeComponentLoader: SelfRegisterDll(libpipnss.so) Load FAILED with

Elimina el elemento seleccionado de los procedimientos de plataformas.

Disabling Internet Keywords on Firefox

Is there an easy way to disable Internet Keywords on Firefox 1.0.x?

I'm asking here because this feature might violate user privacy,
especially if you don't trust Google.

Re: Disabling Internet Keywords on Firefox

Remove the keyword field (or leave it blank) for all your bookmarks.

Florian Weimer wrote:
> Is there an easy way to disable Internet Keywords on Firefox 1.0.x?
> 
> I'm asking here because this feature might violate user privacy,
> especially if you don't trust Google.

Re: Disabling Internet Keywords on Firefox

* Jack:

> Remove the keyword field (or leave it blank) for all your bookmarks.

I haven't set any keywords on bookmarks.

But I recalled the term "Internet Keywords" only when writing my
question.  Going back to the browser configuration, I see that there
is a "keyword.enabled" property, which defaults to "true".  Setting it
to "false" seems to disable Internet Keywords.

Re: Disabling Internet Keywords on Firefox

That just sends terms typed in the browser to your URL specific by config 
property keyword.URL.  It has some sort of logic to see whether or not it is a 
host name.  If it is not a hostname (or URL form), then it make the query to 
keyword.URL.  I do not understand how this would violate a user's privacy.

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jack:
> 
>>Remove the keyword field (or leave it blank) for all your bookmarks.
> 
> I haven't set any keywords on bookmarks.
> 
> But I recalled the term "Internet Keywords" only when writing my
> question.  Going back to the browser configuration, I see that there
> is a "keyword.enabled" property, which defaults to "true".  Setting it
> to "false" seems to disable Internet Keywords.

Re: Disabling Internet Keywords on Firefox

* Jack:

> That just sends terms typed in the browser to your URL specific by
> config property keyword.URL.  It has some sort of logic to see
> whether or not it is a host name.  If it is not a hostname (or URL
> form), then it make the query to keyword.URL.  I do not understand
> how this would violate a user's privacy.

On X11 systems, pressing the middle mouse button in a Window has three
functions in Firefox: On a hyperlink, the hyperlink is opened in a new
window/tab.  On an input control, the X selection (= clipboard) is
pasted into the control.  On some unused space of the window, the X
selection is entered into the location bar.  It's easy to trigger the
third action accidentally when you click on the wrong part of the
window.

Re: Disabling Internet Keywords on Firefox

I was a little slow there.  You just want a way for the third action to be 
disabled.  I find it annoying more than anything because I use browsers on 
many different systems and I some times get surprised by this action.  Yes, 
you are correct that it can violation a users privacy if one has highlighted 
private text and accidently hits the middle mouse button on an unused portion 
of the window.  I just found and tested that if "middlemouse.contentLoadURL" 
is set to false, then nothing happens.

Florian Weimer wrote:
> On X11 systems, pressing the middle mouse button in a Window has three
> functions in Firefox: On a hyperlink, the hyperlink is opened in a new
> window/tab.  On an input control, the X selection (= clipboard) is
> pasted into the control.  On some unused space of the window, the X
> selection is entered into the location bar.  It's easy to trigger the
> third action accidentally when you click on the wrong part of the
> window.

Cleaning worm from Netscape 7.2 mail folders

My virus program keeps detecting the following infections, but does not 
clean them.  I hate to delete myu mail folders and loose several years 
of saved messages, so is there a way to clean the infections without 
deleting the folder?  If not, is there a way to export the messages into 
annother directory so thjt I can keep them?  I've tried going through 
the messages, deleting those that contain attatchments, but either I'm 
missing the infected messages, or the infection lies in the directory, 
not within a particular message.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  
By the way, the virus software company has NOT answered my e-mail 
requests for help with this problem.

Number of archives containing infected files: 3
Number of infections: 3
Number of infected files not cleaned/deleted/renamed: 3
	C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles
\Greg\196gq4tp.slt\Mail\pop-server\inbox>midgets.zlq (Win32.Hybris.B 
worm)
	C:\Documents and Settings\Greg\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles
\Greg\c8t8k095.slt\Mail\pop-server\inbox>midgets.zlq (Win32.Hybris.B 
worm)
	C:\Documents and Settings\Greg Rice.GREG\Application Data\Mozilla
\Profiles\Greg\196gq4tp.slt\Mail\pop-server\inbox>midgets.zlq 
(Win32.Hybris.B worm)

eTrust EZ Antivirus Version 6.2.1.1
Started scanning:	11:11:32 PM, 11/13/2005
 Dat file 	v9507z